Job Overview
We are seeking a proactive and skilled finance professional to join our team as a Management Accountant located at YMCA North Tyneside in North Shields. If you are a finance professional looking to utilise your skills in a rewarding, community-focused environment, we encourage you to apply!
Is This Role for You?
Do you have experience working within a regulated environment, specifically with housing associations or social housing?
- Are you equally comfortable handling day-to-day transactional reconciliations as you are providing complex financial analysis?
- Do you want to work for an organisation guided by values that ensure everyone can hope, belong, contribute, and thrive?
If you answered yes, we want to hear from you!
What Will You Be Doing?
As our Management Accountant, you will report directly to the Finance Director and work closely with our housing division, social enterprise, and subsidiary to support our strategic objectives. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Financial Reporting & Strategy: Preparing monthly management accounts, organisational KPIs, and contributing key inputs to our 30-year financial plan and regulatory returns.
- Housing Finance Management: Managing technical accounting for income streams, calculating rents and service charges, and ensuring strict compliance with the Social Housing Rent Standard and industry legislation.
- Collaborative Business Partnering: Partnering with various departments across the organisation to ensure accurate reporting and collaborating with local authority Housing Benefit teams.
- Core Accounting: Taking ownership of the fixed asset register, managing balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting the budget, forecast, and statutory audit processes.
What Skills and Experience Do You Need?
To be successful in this diverse and impactful role, it is essential that you have:
- Professional Qualifications: To be a part-qualified accountant (CCAB/CIMA) or qualified by relevant experience.
- Industry Expertise: Direct experience with FRS 102 (specifically Section 34/The Housing SORP) and the Social Housing Rent Standard.
- The Right Mindset: A proactive, flexible approach with excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Compliance Ready: Proof of right to work in the UK and a willingness to undergo a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (funded by us).
Why Join the YMCA North Tyneside Team?
- Work That Works for Your Life: Our 4-Day Week Trial - We are currently trialing a 100:80:100 working model—an initiative that offers 100% of your salary for 80% of your time, in exchange for a commitment to maintaining 100% productivity.
- Invest in Yourself - As an employee, you will immediately feel part of a supportive, collaborative environment where personal development is paramount. We truly believe in the potential of every team member.
- Work That Matters - The work we do is undoubtedly challenging, yet profoundly fulfilling. Every task and every role contributes directly to a single, powerful goal: making a lasting difference to the future of young people in North Tyneside.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £37,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- How many years experience working with Housing Associations do you have?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in North Shields NE29 0AB
