We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Orbit is delighted to announce we are recruiting for a Capital Accountant to join our finance team.

This integral role will see you interacting with all levels of the business, from senior stakeholders to our external stakeholders and the wider finance team, delivering an excellent finance service to the business helping us to invest more back into communities.

You will lead and manage the capital accounting team and hold responsibility for the completeness, accuracy and maintenance of Orbit’s £3bn fixed asset register and £0.7bn grant register. You will also manage the assets under construction control accounts (c£0.3bn) undertake bi-annual impairment reviews and ensure the accuracy of component accounting for the capital reinvestment programme.

What you'll achieve

• To lead and oversee all balance sheet reconciliations for your team including the reconciliation of the assets under construction control accounts to the development project ledger, the fixed assets register to the general ledger and the reconciliation of the fixed assets and grants register to operational records held in various areas
• Preparation of statutory accounts and supporting notes through to completion for legal entities within agreed deadlines
• To lead on the preparation of audit schedules and papers for housing properties, grants, work in progress with responsibility for the provision of accurate information and responses to auditor queries in accordance with agreed audit timetables.

• To support the production of external regulatory returns
• Effectively operate a management framework within which the team is supported and motivated to achieve its objectives in accordance with Orbit Group policies and procedures e.g. performance management, regular high impact 121s, ongoing learning and development etc.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Experience of managing teams of finance staff and delivering outputs to tight deadlines.
• A qualified (or part qualified) accountant (CCAB approved accountancy e.g. ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA/ICAEW)
• Appropriate proven technical capital accounting experience
• Previous responsibility for preparing statutory accounts
• Problem solving and decision-making skills

Desirable skills

• Technical accounting skills with experience of the Housing SORP, the Accounting Direction for social housing and FRS102.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.