Financial Controller

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 recognised professional accountancy qualification, for example, ACCA, CIMA, ACA (or equivalent) AND at least 1 years’ experience in a similar role to include financial management or financial control within a medium or large organisation with multiple income streams and cost centres 

OR 

• at least 3 years’ experience in a similar role to include financial management or financial control within a medium or large organisation with multiple income streams and cost centres  

You will also have demonstrated experience of: 

• processing payroll, PAYE, NIC, payments and banking arrangements 

• preparing income and expenditure statements, cash flow analysis, reporting and trend analysis for forecasting  

• financial reporting and budget control 

• preparing annual accounts for audit and liaison with external auditors on management of annual audit process 

• using financial management software (for example, Sage 50 Accounts, Sage Payroll or equivalent) interpreting raw financial data into accessible management information with recommendations for action 

• Microsoft Excel (or equivalent) 

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'.   

What we can offer you  

We offer our people the following:  

• hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support life-work balance 

• tailored learning and development plans to help you grow in your career 

• a generous 25-day annual leave allowance, plus 12 public holidays 

• enhanced family-friendly policies to support your journey with us  

• a comprehensive employer pension scheme with free life assurance 

• free parking and an accessible office location 

• fun staff events to foster team spirit and engagement 

• employee wellbeing services to support your health  

• a supportive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment 

• a values-driven culture where your contributions truly matter