We are Places Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community. 

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with focused people, commercial people, and collaborative people. Our people live and breathe our People Promises. 

More about your role 

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From home working to job sharing, we promote a flexible work life balance.  Splitting your time between being home based, this role will require a minimum of two days per week working from our Grays Inn Road, London Office.

This is an exciting role for a commercially minded Accountant (either fully qualified or able to demonstrate capabilities through experience) who is looking for a new opportunity or challenge.

Involved in providing appraisals, accounting and a reporting service, with respect to a portfolio of PM&R (Placemaking & Regeneration) projects, in collaboration with the Finance and Commercial colleagues. 

In this role you will oversee, analyse, and create evaluations which will allow the project team to maximise project cash flows and returns.  The models must be sufficiently advanced to support a range of project scenarios and options.

For more information, please download our job profile available on our website. 

More about you 

We are looking for a qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or someone with experience in an accounting or development role who has or is capable of working on large complex spreadsheets. You will also be looking for a position that combines day to day reporting with routine and ad hoc project work and close collaboration with the Finance and Development Teams, and as such will be a natural multi-tasker.

You will need advanced Excel skills and be comfortable with modelling complex spreadsheets with large amounts of data. The role will involve some work with the wider business so excellent stakeholder management skills are also required. 

The benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

• Competitive annual bonus
• Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
• Pension with matched contributions
• Car allowance
• Training
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please email the recruitment team recruitment@placesforpeople.co.uk 

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.

Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

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