Assistant Cost Accountant

Assistant Cost Accountant Birmingham, England

Platform Housing Group
Full Time Birmingham, England 30028 - 33364 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

We are currently looking for an Assistant Cost Accountant to provide permanent support to our Service Charges team.

This is a fantastic time to join us on our transformation journey to provide a truly modern finance function and help us build a better future in affordable homes, services, and communities.

We will be implementing our new finance system, and this exciting new role is to support our mission to provide the highest quality, accurate and accountable financial statements to customers in respect of service charges.

You will work closely with wider finance team and will support with interrogating the ledger transactions to provide detailed financial accounting information related to service charge costs to the Service Charge team in alignment with service charge policy and apportionment structures.

Some of the things we are looking for:

  • Qualified to AAT Level 2 or equivalent

  • Experience of interpreting information, carrying out research, analysing complex data, appraising performance, and managing risk

  • Experience of providing data and information to challenging deadlines

  • Experience of providing an excellent customer driven service

  • Excellent ICT skills (Word, Excel, Cloud technologies)

  • Have good problem solving and decision-making skills

  • At least one years’ experience in service charges or accounting in a large and complex organisation with substantial budgets is considered desirable

While this role is home based, you should have the ability to travel to Group offices and other locations for meetings as required. Our Group offices are located at Birmingham Business Park, Solihull and Central Park, Worcester.

Check out some of our great benefits:

  • Up to 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave

  • Family friendly policies, flexible working, and ability to work from home in most roles

  • Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts

  • Non- contributory health & wellbeing plans with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies

  • Pension contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 8% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)

  • Learning and Development opportunities

  • Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme

  • Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers

If you would like any further information on the role or would like to arrange an informal conversation, please contact Lucy Haines (Service Charge Business Partner) via email:

We aim to hold virtual interviews for these opportunities and will contact you to arrange a suitable time.

Assistant Cost Accountant
Platform Housing Group

www.platformhg.com
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Grantmaking & Charitable Foundations
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