Financial Controller

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

Salary Scale: £36,163-£38,990 per annum

Location: Skainos Centre, Belfast (with option for hybrid working)

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract type: 12 months initially with potential for a permanent position

We are seeking to appoint a Financial Controller to ensure the effective and efficient management of all accounting records and systems with regard to financial planning and control across the organisation.

About the role

As Financial Controller at Housing Rights, you will play a key role in ensuring the financial health and sustainability of our organisation. You will be responsible for delivering:

• Financial planning and controlling
• Statutory and funder compliance
• Financial risk management
• Financial systems and administration processes.

About you

You will have:

• A degree in accounting or part qualified accountant (Foundation Level of one of ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, CAI or CIMA);
• A minimum of eighteen months full-time (or part-time equivalent) experience in the processing of financial information for management control, planning and statutory reporting;
• A minimum of one years’ experience of processing payroll, PAYE, NIC, Payments and banking arrangements, including demonstrated working experience of operating Sage 50 Accounts and Sage Payroll;
• Demonstrated experience of financial reporting and budget control.

About Housing Rights

Housing Rights has been helping people in Northern Ireland deal with housing and homelessness problems since 1964. We help people with their housing and homelessness problems through our helplines, and advice and mediation work. We use their experiences to bring change and improvements with our policy work. We educate and inform others working in the housing and advice sectors to help their clients.

All our work helps us to achieve our vision 'when everyone has a home'.

Benefits

We offer our staff the following benefits:

• hybrid and flexible working
• tailored learning and development plan
• a generous holiday allowance
• enhanced employer pension scheme with free life assurance
• accessible location and free parking
• fun events for staff engagement
• access to employee wellbeing services

The closing date for this post is midday on 10 March 2025.

For further information and to submit your application, click APPLY NOW.

Housing Rights gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Department for Communities towards this post.

Diversity is valued at Housing Rights. Applications from all sections of the community are actively encouraged.