Senior Accountant

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Job title: Senior Accountant

Grade: MG6

Salary: £49,651 - £74,475

Contract: Permanent / Full-time - 36 hours per week

Working hours: Monday to Friday, standard 9:00 to 17:00

Location: Bromley Civic Centre

Working pattern: Hybrid - minimum 2 days per week office attendance

Bromley Council is looking for a senior accountant to join their housing financial management team. Reporting to the Head of Finance for Housing, Adult Social Care & Health, you will play a key role in contributing to housing’s strategies for managing temporary accommodation and housing developments.

Bromley is a great place to work and we are proud of the high-quality services we deliver to residents. The Council has been recognised as being outstanding by Ofsted for its Children’s services in 2024 and won an excellence in asset management award in 2021.

Like many councils, we face financial challenges; however, there is sound financial management at Bromley which means that we are well positioned to support the Council to respond effectively.

Oracle Fusion was implemented in 2022 and the finance team continues to explore opportunities where technology can improve our offer. Innovation, insight and the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders will be vital in addressing the challenges ahead.

Key responsibilities:

Leading on budget monitoring and annual budget setting for housing including demand lead areas such as temporary accommodation

Closing the service’s accounts at year-end and ensuring thorough workings for RO, RA and other returns to London Councils and grant funding organisations

Knowledge of housing benefits subsidy and checking through subsidy claims, ensuring the Council maximises subsidy and minimises loss through avoidable errors

Ensuring that housing developments maximise the Council’s ability to cater for client lead demand

Manage and lead the development of staff in supporting the delivery of the financial management offer to housing services

Responding in a timely and substantive manner to Freedom of Information requests and external audit queries

About you:

CCAB qualified accountant (consideration given to part qualified accountants) with significant financial management experience at a suitably senior level

Seasoned ability to deep dive into data and produce meaningful information for managers, presented both via high quality graphical visualisations (Microsoft Excel and Power BI) and narrative

Knowledge of housing development schemes and the ability to review the financial and operational aspects and advise upon the particularities of these

The Council may reopen its Housing Revenue Account and knowledge of the HRA rents, service charges and operations would be of benefit

Keen sense of professional curiosity to draw reasonable conclusions from disparate data sources and triangulate between experts within the services

High level of drive and initiative to support services by providing a critical ear and eye on interpreting facets of housing law and legislation

If you have a zest for Power BI and can convert budget monitoring and budget setting outputs into a dashboard for the service, we would love to hear from you

If you would like to speak to the Hiring Manager about the role, please contact [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.

We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies. If you are a candidate and would like to contact the Recruitment Team regarding the application process, please email [email protected].

Senior Accountant

• Location: Bromley Civic Centre
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Salary: £49,651 - £74,475 PA
• Posted: 28/09/2026
• Closing date: 23/10/2026
• Closing time: 23:59 (BST)