Assistant Accountant

Onward Homes; Manchester; Remote; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Onward Homes is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join their finance team, predominantly working from home. This role involves supporting management accountants in financial reporting and analysis, ensuring accuracy and compliance in financial data, with opportunities for professional growth through training and development.

Benefits

32 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension scheme with matched contributions

Flexible working environment

Simply Health cash plan

Access to training and qualifications

Qualifications

• Experience of working in finance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Numerate and able to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assist in delivering management information reporting.
• Support process improvement for financial control.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Excel

Interpersonal skills

Data management

Communication

Education

AAT part/fully qualified

Job description

What You Can Expect From Us

• We offer a competitive salary of £32,600 per annum
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
  
  

About The Role

Onward Homes is looking to recruit an Assistant Accountant to join our finance team. This role is predominately a home-based role, where there is no daily requirement to attend an office but candidates will need to attend as required for team meetings, and collaborative working.

The purpose of this role is to provide support to the Management Accountants in providing a wide range of financial services including monthly management reporting, performance reports, statutory reports and budget production.

Responsibilities

• Accounting - Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and take appropriate action to ensure completeness and accuracy of monthly management information and year-end financial statements within prescribed timescales.
• Reporting - Assist the Management Accountants to deliver a management information reporting service to a high standard and within agreed deadlines reporting monthly financial performance for Onward and its regions.
• Systems - Use the Open Accounts system and other related systems to review and record transactions accurately and use the reporting to support numbers in the accounts ensuring full reconciliation to the general ledger.
• Process improvement - Support continual process improvement to deliver financial control and assurance across the group. Maintain a link between the analysis of data and other teams. Provide data assurance to ensure that information decisions are made at the right level.
• Linking - To support business stakeholders in providing ad hoc reports and dealing with ad hoc enquiries and assisting in ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial data within the leasehold service charge statements.
  
  

Essential:

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience of working in finance
• IT skill – Microsoft Office, Excel at intermediate level
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with both financial and non-financial staff
• Numerate and ability to take responsibility of own work to completion
• Experience of managing transactional financial data
• Experience of delivering financial support to internal and external customers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Enthusiastic and action oriented
• Committed to team working
  
  

Desirable:

• Experience in the housing sector
  
  

Qualifications

Essential:

• AAT part/fully qualified
  
  

Desirable:

• Willingness to study towards a recognised Accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
  
  

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across in 52 neighbourhoods across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [e-mail] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

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