Group Controls and Compliance Accountant
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Overview
What you'll be doing? Following the 2024 combination of Barratt and Redrow, the newly merged finance function continues to evolve, enhancing efficiency while providing more tailored support to the business and key stakeholders. As integration progresses, the team must address challenges in process alignment while ensuring data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and financial control.
The Group Reporting team ensures accurate, transparent, and compliant financial and non-financial reporting. It focuses on three core areas: consolidating and delivering group and statutory accounts, leading technical accounting and financial control, and delivering and improving ESG reporting and insight. Through these functions, it provides information and insight to users of the accounts, whilst also enhancing decision-making and corporate accountability.
The Group Compliance Accountant is a member of a team of 4 which focuses on developing and maintaining the Group’s accounting policy and procedures, delivering technical judgements and driving appropriate knowledge of accounting and control across the organisation.
Responsibilities
* Monitor financial controls, modifying where necessary to develop a fit-for-purpose control framework, ensuring adherence to regulatory and internal governance standards.
* Conduct journals testing and balance sheet reconciliation reviews, validating accuracy and compliance. Test compliance to key financial controls within both the business and at Group.
* Oversee divisional valuation processes and margin reviews, maintaining consistency in financial reporting. Engage proactively, primarily with the Commercial function, to ensure valuation controls are rigorous, complete and effective.
* Lead quarterly CDA reviews and prepare Audit Committee papers, providing insight into margin recognition and financial risks.
* Manage due diligence reviews, assessing financial control risks for strategic initiatives.
* Ensure robust delegation of authority and approval workflows, reinforcing financial oversight.
* Verify data for external publications, safeguarding accuracy in corporate disclosures.
Qualifications
* Collaborative mindset, working closely with internal stakeholders to enhance financial control frameworks.
* Rigorous attention to detail, ensuring financial data integrity and compliance.
* Confident yet approachable, engaging effectively with senior leaders while valuing diverse perspectives. Engage with wider business to ensure understanding of key and material controls.
* Proactive problem solver, identifying control weaknesses and driving continuous improvement.
* Analytical and methodical, bringing structure and precision to financial assessments.
* Integrity-driven, maintaining a strong ethical approach to financial governance and control.
* Confident working in a team, but comfortable to act independently.
* Experience in Financial Controls; Internal Audit an advantage – Hands-on experience in designing, monitoring, and improving financial control frameworks, ideally within a large or listed organisation.
* Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management Expertise – Familiarity with UK corporate governance requirements; understanding of SOX environments helpful but not essential; managing financial risks within an evolving business environment.
* Stakeholder Engagement & Process Improvement – Proven ability to work with senior leadership, auditors, and finance teams to strengthen controls, enhance workflow approvals, and improve governance practices.
* Good understanding of business processes within housebuilding, desirable to support development of an appropriate, business-focused control framework.
Benefits
* Competitive Salary
* Competitive Bonus Scheme
* Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
* 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
* Choice of Flexible Benefits
* Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
Note
Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure Today’s housebuilding professional needs tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world. Private medical cover, pension, annual health assessments, and other benefits are available as part of our support package.
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