Group Technical Accountant

Barratt Developments plc; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK housebuilder is seeking a Group Technical Accountant to drive technical accounting policies and ensure compliance with IFRS standards. This role involves conducting reviews of complex transactions, supporting business divisions with financial reporting challenges, and maintaining accounting policies. The ideal candidate will have significant technical expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and experience in stakeholder engagement. The position adopts a hybrid working model, balancing office and remote work.

Benefits

Competitive Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover – Single Cover

26 days’ holiday (increasing with service)

Qualifications

• Extensive PQE in accounting.
• Familiarity with IFRS standards, specifically IFRS 15, 9, and 16.
• Experience in audit or engagement with auditors.

Responsibilities

• Conduct reviews of transactions for revenue recognition compliance.
• Maintain the Finance Policies and Procedures Manual.
• Provide technical accounting support to business divisions.
• Oversee group provisions reviews.
• Prepare Audit Committee papers.
• Support developments in IFRS and UK GAAP.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Confident leadership

Collaboration

Technical accounting expertise

Problem-solving

IFRS expertise

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Following the 2024 combination of Barratt and Redrow, the newly merged finance function continues to evolve, enhancing efficiency while providing more tailored support to the business and key stakeholders. As integration progresses, the team must address challenges in process alignment while ensuring data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and financial control.

Group Finance is structured into “centres of expertise” covering tax, treasury, financial and non‑financial reporting, FP&A, and finance systems. Each team delivers deep functional expertise to stakeholders, be they the business, Exec, Board, investors, holders of debt, or government bodies such as HMRC.

The Group Reporting team ensures accurate, transparent, and compliant financial and non‑financial reporting. It focuses on three core areas: consolidating and delivering group and statutory accounts, leading technical accounting and financial control, and delivering and improving ESG reporting and insight. Through these functions, it provides information and insight to users of the accounts, whilst also enhancing decision‑making and corporate accountability.

The Group Technical Accountant is a member of a team of 4 which focuses on developing and maintaining the Group’s accounting policy and procedures, delivering technical judgements and driving appropriate knowledge of accounting and control across the organisation.

Responsible to Group Accounting Manager.

Responsibilities

• Conduct reviews of complex or unusual transactions, including IFRS 15 contract reviews to ensure revenue recognition compliance and accuracy across business divisions.
• Maintain and enhance the Finance Policies and Procedures Manual, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory and business requirements.
• Provide expert technical accounting support to divisions and Group functions, addressing complex financial reporting challenges.
• Oversee group provisions reviews, collaborating with Group Legal and SHE to assess and manage financial liabilities.
• Lead impairment reviews of inventories (current WIP and land options) and intangible assets, ensuring appropriate valuation adjustments.
• Prepare and present key Audit Committee papers, including assessments on going concern, goodwill, provisions, and land & WIP valuations.
• Support the wider Group Reporting team and, where necessary, organisation, on developments in IFRS and UK GAAP.

We’re looking for

• Strategic thinking – Aligns accounting policies and new business processes with long‑term financial objectives. Has awareness and pays attention to commercial realities.
• Confident yet humble in approach, able to lead discussions with senior leaders while valuing diverse perspectives and fostering constructive dialogue.
• Highly collaborative, working effectively within a tight‑knit team of three while engaging seamlessly with wider finance functions and business stakeholders.
• Technically authoritative, bringing significant technical accounting expertise and applying deep knowledge to complex reporting and compliance matters.
• Patient and methodical, investing time and energy in understanding, articulating, and explaining accounting standards, judgments, and processes in a clear and accessible manner.
• Integrity‑driven and rigorous, ensuring financial reporting reflects accuracy, compliance, and ethical decision‑making.
• Proactive problem solver, anticipating challenges, identifying solutions, and driving continuous improvement in financial controls and reporting practices.
• Strong IFRS expertise, particularly in complex areas such as IFRS 15, IFRS 9 and IFRS 16.
• Experience in audit desirable – either from working in external audit or engaging extensively with auditors during financial reporting cycles.
• Financial governance experience, ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks.
• Stakeholder engagement skills, able to engage with more senior executives and colleagues across the business.
• Exposure to listed company reporting preferred.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with extensive PQE.

We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5‑star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high‑quality homes for all generations. That’s more than any other major housebuilder. It’s because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building.

Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office‑based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues.

We are building an organisation where anyone with drive and talent can pursue the career they want. We are building a culture where anyone, regardless of gender, race, age, sexuality, disability, background or any other characteristic, can progress and be proud to work for us.

Benefits

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer:

• Competitive Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover – Single Cover
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)

Today’s housebuilding professional need tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world.

Private medical cover

Private healthcare support is available for timely access to a virtual GP, for diagnosis, treatment and more — including physio and talking therapies. You can even add family members.

Pension

First‑class pension schemes with the option of up to 10% employer contributions.

Annual Health Assessment

All colleagues are able to access a fully funded annual health assessment, helping you to proactively manage your health and wellbeing.

As well as a competitive salary, we offer many ways to make life more affordable – from access to employee loans and savings accounts, to house purchase discounts.

Cycle to Work scheme, reduced hotel rate, discounts at major retailers… These make a massive difference to the quality of your lifestyle.

So much more…

From death in service, paid volunteer and study leave, enhanced family friendly policies (including our Parents and Carers leave) to a share buying scheme, we have an incredible range of additional benefits.

About Group Support Centre

Barratt Redrow PLC is the nation’s leading housebuilder, creating great new places to live throughout Britain.

Our business is acquiring land, obtaining planning consents and building the highest quality homes in places people aspire to live. This is supported by our expertise in land, design, construction and sales and marketing.

Our purpose is to make sustainable living a reality, building strong communities.

Where you’ll be working

Here is where you’ll be based, whether that’s an office or one of our sites.

Putting diversity and inclusion front and centre

We know that a diverse team is better for our customers, makes us a more attractive employer and results in a stronger, more sustainable business. Which is why we’re so committed to developing our inclusive culture.

Thinking ahead to leave a better world behind

We’re building a sustainable tomorrow, one house and one community at a time. Our commitment to our customers is rooted in every decision and day‑to‑day action we take.

See how our colleagues are building tomorrow together.