Assistant Accountant

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Gainsborough CP; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension contributions

Professional training

Volunteer day

Paycare health benefits

Perkz discount scheme

Stars recognition

Cycle to work

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Acis is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join the Finance team, supporting monthly performance review, journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. You will help with annual accounts and year-end audit data while maintaining cash forecasts and compliance.

The role involves partnering with internal stakeholders, ensuring accurate financial data, and providing meaningful insights to drive performance. This fixed-term contract lasts one year to cover maternity leave.

Qualifications

• Numerate and able to process financial information and transactions.
• Customer focused with good ambassadorial skills.
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organisation.
• Solid IT skills to support individual performance.
• Resilience when working in a challenging environment within social housing.

Responsibilities

• Providing transaction processing and financial analysis support to the finance team.
• Supporting the monthly review of the financial performance of the group, including variance analysis and management reporting.
• Preparing and inputting ledger journals and ensuring accurate income and expenditure reporting.
• Assisting with monthly balance sheet reconciliations and query resolution.
• Assisting with the collection, analysis and reconciliation of annual service charges.
• Supporting the preparation of annual accounts and working papers for year-end audit.
• Analytical review of financial results across the Group’s entities.
• Monitoring financial transactions and ensuring contractual compliance.
• Applying accounting knowledge to deliver accurate outcomes for stakeholders.
• Maintaining daily bank and cash records and short-term cash flow forecasting.
• Meeting with stakeholders to plan and support financial queries.
• Business partnering with Heads of Services for financial support.

Skills

Numerate

Customer focused

Strong communicator

IT skills

Resilience

Education

Financial/accountancy degree or A-Level

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Help shape the financial success of our organisation.

We're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Assistant Accountant to join our Finance team and play a key role in supporting

the financial health of the business. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working with numbers, analysing data

and building strong relationships with colleagues across the organisation. From preparing financial reports and reconciliations to

supporting budget monitoring, cash flow forecasting and year-end accounts, you'll help ensure our finances are accurate, compliant

and provide meaningful insight into business performance. You'll work closely with stakeholders at all levels, providing trusted

support and helping decision-makers understand how we're performing as an organisation. If you're organised, customer-focused and

eager to develop your accounting expertise in a purpose-driven environment, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

This is a fixed term contract for one year covering Maternity leave.

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.

Some of the experience/skills we need to consider you:

• 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

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

Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:

• Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave rising by 1 per year to a max of 30 plus bank holidays
• 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
• such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
• 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

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 in addition to any aid with interviewing that you