Sanctuary manages rented and shared ownership homes and supports community initiatives for thousands of customers across England. Our staff help make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives.
Senior Accounts Assistant
Worcester based with a balance of home and office working
£30,549 - £32,156 per year
35 hours per week
As a Senior Accounts Assistant, you will be ambitious and enjoy a varied role within a busy and supportive team. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the completion of management accounts to ensure income and expenditure is appropriately accounted for, whilst also ensuring data is accurately recorded. The ideal candidate will come from a finance background and will possess excellent data analysis skills. The role sits within the Housing Management Accounts team which is responsible for the accounting of Affordable Housing within Sanctuary.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their career. You will be joining a fast-paced team, assisting in the delivery of effective financial services including budgeting and forecasting, variance analysis, stakeholder management and reporting.
The role of Senior Accounts Assistant will include:
* Providing accurate and timely financial information whilst maintaining effective financial systems, to support decision making and business planning
* Developing, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
* Providing an effective administration service ensuring workloads are manageable in line with business requirements
* Identifying areas for improvement and shortfalls in service delivery and recommending actions to remedy this, as appropriate
* Supporting and assisting the management accounting function within the team
Skills and experiences:
* AAT qualified or be working towards this
* Previous experience in a similar transactional finance role along with strong analytical skills is essential
* The ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work loads
* Excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills allowing you to negotiate effectively
* Outstandingly organised with a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy
* Basic user of Microsoft Office with strong Excel skills
Why work for us?
We provide homes and care for more than 250,000 people in England and Scotland. Our customers are at the heart of all we do. With around 14,000 colleagues, we foster a diverse and inclusive culture, and nurture and reward talent.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your well-being is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
* 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
* A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
* Life Assurance
* Employee Volunteering scheme
* Employee Advice Service including counselling
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Voluntary health plans
* Employee discounts
* Wellbeing support and tools
* Employee recognition scheme
* Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
* Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
* Role salary is £27,521 with an additional policy allowance of £3,027 per annum (rising to £28,970 with an additional policy allowance of £3,186 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
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Closing Date: 18 February 2026
If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you -corporate.recruitment@sanctuary.co.uk
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
View more detail about what it’s like to work for our organisation, and what we offer on our Sanctuary careers pages at - www.sanctuary.co.uk/join-our-team
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
Sanctuary Housing Services Limited is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.