Job Title: Senior Accountant Hours: 36hrs per week, 52 weeks per year, Permanent Salary: 60k Location: Walthamstow Herts Resourcing Group (HRG) is working with a college in Walthamstow and we’re actively looking for an experienced Senior Accountant (Projects & System Development) to join their team. The successful candidate will support the Director of Finance in delivering outstanding financial leadership across the college. This is a key strategic role, helping to shape the College’s financial planning, capital investment, grant management, and financial systems development. What You’ll Do (including but not limited to): * Financial Management & Compliance * Grant-Funded Projects & Capital Development * Systems & Strategic Improvement * Leadership & Team Development * Cross-College & External Engagement You Must Have: * A fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or significant experience in a senior finance role within the education sector. * Proven experience in financial management of capital and grant-funded projects. * Strong understanding of public sector accounting, cash flow, and financial systems development. * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex finance concepts to non-finance staff. * Experience in leading or supporting finance teams and promoting continuous improvement. What we’re looking for: * Experience of financial reporting in the FE sector – including, but not limited to, preparing medium term financial plans, budgets, capital plans, in year forecast * Understanding of management information systems and finance dashboard * Experience of maintaining Finance systems and training users * Excel advanced (skilled in pivot tables and charts), Word intermediate (creating tables and professionally formatted of reports) and Outlook Additional Benefits: Generous holiday leave entitlement plus bank holidays / Generous pension scheme / Discount and benefits scheme, with everything from discounts on day-to-day shopping to holidays / Salary sacrifice scheme to assist you with purchasing a bike / Free car parking on site / Free breakfast for all staff (08:00am - 8.50am) / Costa Coffee on site / A range of family-friendly policies including flexible working and hybrid working arrangements (subject to business needs) / Contribution to eye care / Staff celebrations such as a summer BBQ and Christmas lunch Full job description is available on request