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Responsible to : Finance Manager
Responsible for : No line management responsibility
Salary : up to £40,000 per year depending on experience and qualifications
Hours: 35 hours per week.
Contract: permanent.
Closing date for applications - 9am Wednesday 17th June 2026.
Interviews: w/c 29th June 2026.
We reserve the right to close this job advert early if we receive a high volume of applications or find a suitable candidate.
OVERALL AIMS OF THE JOB
To work together to create places that people love to come home, to by focusing on great places, great services, a great business and great people.
MAIN TASKS
- Management accounts, budgets and forecasts
- Maintenance and reconciliations of fixed asset registers
- Accounts and audit
- Payroll
- Regulatory returns and other compliance
- Nominal ledger
- Cashbook and credit cards
- Development finance
DELEGATED AUTHORITY
- To ensure core data and financial ledgers on the system are reconciled and accurate, ready for accounts production.
- Production of management accounts to review stage with investigations of variances.
- To liaise with employees of Cornerstone and external bodies over Payroll matters as necessary.
- To liaise with internal and external auditors.
Job Activities
1. Accounts and Audit
- Production of management accounts to review stage, preparing detailed schedules in support with a paper being produced for the Executive Team.
- Assist in production of the statutory accounts.
- To liaise with internal and external auditors and provide schedules and information as necessary.
- Assist the production of annual budgets and revised editions.
- Preparation of other financial reports as necessary.
2. Payroll
- Operate the payroll system in accordance with company policy and procedures, PAYE legislation and requirements from the Pensions Trust.
- Provide wages and salary analysis for management accounts
- Ensure monthly deductions are paid to Pensions Scheme administrator.
- Ensure all PAYE returns are submitted correctly and within the correct timescales to HMRC, using RTI.
3. Management accounts, budgets and forecasts
- Adding, disposing and reconciliation of Fixed Assets, including components and Development additions.
- Prepare comprehensive schedules supporting the management accounts.
- Provide initial variance analysis when outside of tolerances.
- Prepare and circulate budget holder reports monthly.
- Work with budget holders for annual budget setting in a finance business support role.
- Liaise with budget holders to undergo forecast projections related to the management accounts.
- Prepare monthly cashflow actuals and forecasts monitoring working capital requirements.
- Reconciliation of Balance Sheet codes.
4. Regulatory returns and other compliance
- Assist in the production the regulatory returns:
- a) Quarterly survey
- b) Statistical data return
- c) Annual Accounts (FVA)
- Lead in production of Housemark data.
5. Nominal ledger
- Responsible for maintaining the nominal ledger and management of chart of accounts codes.
- Input standard and ad-hoc journals to the nominal ledger as part of a routine and month end process rectifying corrections as soon as possible.
- Roll over the nominal ledger as per procedures, ensuring the nominal update and trial balance are accurate and correctly filed.
6. Cashbook and credit cards
- Ensure that postings and adjustments to the cash book are entered daily liaising with the Finance Officer in doing so.
- Reconcile the cash book on a monthly basis.
- Prepare detailed month end bank reconciliations.
- Rollover the cash book in accordance with laid down procedures.
- Perform monthly credit card reconciliation ensuring policy is being adhered to.
7. Development finance
- Assist the Development team with development scheme appraisals.
- Assist the Development team with scheme monitoring costs.
- Monitor and liaise with the Development team regarding cashflow forecasts of development expenditure.
- Perform post scheme completion reviews.
- Assist with grant claims and Homes England correspondence.
8. General
- Promote Cornerstone’s vision and values in all that you and the team do.
- Work positively and collaboratively with customers, colleagues, other agencies, and third parties to ensure strong working relationships and a good standard of service delivery to customers.
- Ensure that you are fully acquainted with and follow the law, regulation, policies and procedures as they relate to your post.
- Observe and promote Cornerstone’s Health & Safety policies and procedures at all times.
- Ensure all data is handled in accordance with GDPR and in line with both the Information security and data management policies. Take ownership of the quality and accuracy of processing data and its appropriate storage, transfer and retention.
- Treat customers and colleagues with respect ensuring people feel included and that diversity is valued. Observe and promote our Equality, Diversity & inclusion policies and procedures at all times.
- Take ownership of your own professional development as relevant to your role.
- Keep all duties of the post-holder under review and make recommendations for any improvements in policies and procedures to your line manager.
- Occasional after hours work may be required within the scope of the role, including attendance at meetings.
- Any other duties appropriate to your position as may be identified from time to time.
9. Deputising
- In the post-holders absence some of their duties will be performed by the Finance Manager.
- The post-holder will deputise for:
- a) The Finance Manager in consultation with the Deputy Chief Executive/Chief Executive
- b) The Finance Officer
Person Specification
- Right to work within the United Kingdom.
- Satisfactory Basic DBS check
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education with GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths; plus A levels or BTECH qualifications.
- Fully qualified AAT or part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Able to communicate well with a wide spectrum of internal customers across the organisation.
- Understanding the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong accounting and finance knowledge.
- Flexible and self-motivated, able to work on own initiative and as a part of a team.
- Highly organised, good time management skills and able to manage and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Attention to detail and good at completing tasks through to the end.
- Skilled in the use of Excel at an advanced level.
- Effective problem solver who can work as part of a team, with a positive ‘can-do attitude’.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant work experience that demonstrates the skills we are seeking.
Other
Essential
- Commitment to professional development & service improvement.
Pay: Up to £40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Exeter EX1 1AL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Have you submitted a cover letter with your CV stating how you meet the requirements? Applicants will not be considered without a covering letter.
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
