Assistant Accountant Sheffield, England
Acis Group
Full Time
Sheffield, England
21290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Who we are
We are a welcoming and friendly organisation who provide homes for people who need them and services to help our customers lead better lives. We own and manage more than 7,000 properties across the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, helping thousands of people in our communities every single day. This includes homes for affordable rent, homes for students and homes for older people. We even develop new homes to help people get on the property ladder. In addition to this, we provide Student accommodation. We support over 4000 learners a year with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider. And last but by no means least is our HomePlus division, we want help people stay in their homes for longer – this is where our adaptations specialists come in. From wetrooms to handyperson services, we’ve got it covered when it comes to future proofing homes to help people live independently.
In our teams across our entire organisation, alongside our partners, we have more than 300 people working collaboratively to help raise and realise our customers’ aspirations. Together, we’re honest, positive and ambitious.
Here's what Tom, our Finance Business Partner , has to say about this role: ."This role will suit a well driven individual who’s used to working in a fast changing environment. This is an exciting position with vast amounts of diversity where no two days are the same. As the organisation grows the production of timely management accounts and financial information is critical and this role will play a huge contribution towards this. "
What you'll get as part of the team:
- 25 days annual leave increasing by one day per year (capped at 30 days) plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension – matched contributions up to 10%
- The opportunity to undertake professional training which will be funded by us, as will any relevant professional membership subscriptions
- Staff benefits with Paycare – A fantastic health and benefits scheme
- Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme offering hundreds of savings from food shopping to holidays
- Employee recognition scheme. We ensure we recognise and thank our team with various rewards
- Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced sick pay scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support
- Death in service benefit amounting to 3 times annual salary
What a good Assistant Accountant looks like to us:
- A great standard of education, financial/accountancy degree or related A-Level qualification would be an advantage
- Has started or is fully committed to commencing a professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
- 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
What will stand you out from the crowd:
- A person who has the potential to develop with the business
- Experience of using IT systems including Microsoft Office
- Experience of working within a medium sized corporate entity or equivalent business environment
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.as well as the collection, analysis and reconciliation of the annual service charges.
- 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.
- 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 as well as 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.
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.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate
Acis Group
www.acisgroup.co.uk
Gainsborough, United Kingdom
Greg Bacon
Unknown / Non-Applicable
201 to 500 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1999
