About the role Coventry Building Society has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cost Accountant to join us. Supporting the Society with driving enterprise-wide priorities in relation to efficiency and value, this role will involve advising and challenging on how to get the most value from resources, considering both short and long-term outcomes. The person in post will be involved with delivering the month end activities, supporting the financial planning process, managing day-to-day financial operations, tracking and monitoring forecast and reporting. A key part of the role will be analysing and identifying risks, issues and opportunities. Our benefits include: 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme Annual discretionary bonus scheme Personal pension with matched contributions Life assurance (6 times annual salary) We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. About you As well as being a part qualified accountant, you will also have strong finance business partnering skills and have experience of explaining complex financial information in written and verbal form to financial and non-financial people. You?ll preferably have project accounting experience and will have the ability to gather and analyse data, financial and non-financial, from a wide range of sources to drive commercial insight and decision making. You?ll ideally have experience of working in a regulated environment and be confident in your ability to draw out key data and turn it into meaningful information to present to senior leaders. About us As a mutual, we?ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. Now one of the largest Building Societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing. We?re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation, but also of personality and the way we think. By being yourself, you?ll make us stronger. You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that?s been voted a ?Great Place to Work? by our team. Flexibility and why it matters We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we?ll consider alternative working patterns.Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. ??
