Assistant Accountant

At Acis, finance is about more than spreadsheets and reports it's about providing the insight, accuracy and support that help us deliver great services to our customers and communities. As our Assistant Accountant, you'll be a trusted partner to colleagues across the organisation, helping to ensure our financial information is accurate, timely and meaningful. From analysing performance against budgets and supporting monthly reporting, to working with service managers, maintaining key financial controls and contributing to annual accounts, you'll play a vital role in keeping our organisation running smoothly.

If you enjoy solving problems, building strong relationships and using your accounting expertise to make a difference, this is an opportunity to develop your career within a supportive team where your contribution will be valued every day.

THIS IS A MATERNITY COVER ROLE FOR 9 MONTHS

As an Assistant Accountant, a typical day might include:

- Providing transaction processing and financial analysis support to the finance team.

- Supporting the monthly review of the financial performance of the group, including performing analysis of variances against budgets and production of management reports.

- Preparing and inputting ledger journals as required, ensuring the accuracy of reported income and expenditure.

- Assisting with monthly reconciliation of balance sheet control accounts and resolution of queries arising.

- Assisting in the collection, analysis and reconciliation of the annual service charges.

- Assisting with the preparation of annual accounts and supporting working papers and using this data to respond to enquiries from external auditors as part of the year end audit process.

- Assisting with the analytical review of the financial results returned by the Group's entities.

- Assisting with monitoring of those financial transactions for the group entities which are carried out within the group or by commercial partners and ensuring compliance with agreed contractual terms.

- Applying your strong technical knowledge of accounting to deliver amazing outcomes for our customers.

- Maintaining daily bank and cash records.

- Maintaining the short-term cash flow forecast based on a combination of known cash in/out flow timings and reasonable assumptions and liaising with business colleagues as required to inform this work.

- Meeting with your stakeholders to plan, prioritise and support on financial queries.

- Business Partnering with internal Heads of Services to provide financial support and analysis to their department.

A great standard of education, financial/accountancy degree or related A-Level qualification would be an advantage

- Numerate with the ability to process financial information and transactions

- Customer focused and a good ambassador for the business

- A solid all-round communicator who is able to show assertiveness when required

- Good IT skills which are used to support individual performance

- Resilience. Working in social housing is a challenging but rewarding career. You'll be helping to bring real change to our customers' lives.

What will make you stand out from the crowd:

- Experience of using IT systems including Microsoft Office

- Experience of working within a medium sized corporate entity or equivalent business environment

- An individual who takes interest in broader business performance and who identifies ways in which they can contribute to it

- You'll be adept at change, having got hands on experience living and breathing new ways of working

Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days annual plus bank holidays (pro rata)

- Pension contributions up to 10%

- The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us

- One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)

- Staff benefits with Paycare - A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits

- Benefits with Acis Perkz - a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more

- Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers

- Long service awards for our loyal employees

- Cycle to work scheme

- Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it

- Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development

- Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.