Assistant Accountant - Group

Orbit; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Group is seeking an Assistant Accountant - Group to support the Group Accountant with accurate financial information, accruals and month-end processes in our Coventry-based finance team.

You'll handle journals, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany settlements and help maintain the group balance sheet tracker while building relationships across the business. AAT qualification or equivalent and strong Excel skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• AAT qualified or equivalent (part qualified preferred).
• Strong IT literacy with advanced Excel skills.
• Good literacy and numeracy.
• Clear communication with customers.
• Experience in setting up and linking Excel spreadsheets.
• Able to multitask effectively.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of accruals, prepayments and journals.
• Ownership and reconciliation of key balance sheet control accounts.
• Maintain the group balance sheet tracker ensuring accuracy and timely deadlines.
• Prepare and reconcile monthly salary and oncosts reports for the group.
• Prepare monthly intercompany settlements for the group and subsidiaries with Treasury & Cashbook teams.
• Support the group accountant with month and year end processes.

Skills

AAT qualification

Excel skills

Literacy and numeracy

Clear communication

Excel proficiency (formulas/linking)

Multitasking

Organisation & time management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Here at Orbit Group, we are looking for an Assistant Accountant - Group to support the Group Accountant in maintaining accurate financial information and key balance sheet control accounts across Orbit Group. You’ll get involved in a varied range of activities, including accruals, prepayments and journals, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany settlements, and supporting month and year-end processes and statutory accounts preparation. This is a great opportunity to broaden your accounting experience while building strong relationships across the business.

This role is part of Finance where you'll help us to invest more back into communities and design for strength.

What you’ll achieve

• Preparation of accruals, prepayments and journals.
• The ownership & reconciliation of key balance sheet control accounts.
• Maintaining the group balance sheet tracker ensuring that information is accurate, timely and that deadlines are met across the finance teams.
• Prepare and reconcile monthly salary & oncosts reports for the group processing adjustments as required.
• Preparing and processing monthly intercompany settlements on behalf of the group and it’s subsidiaries liaising with the Treasury & Cashbook teams.
• Support the group accountant with month and year end processes.

What you’ll bring

Essential skills

• AAT qualified or equivalent – ideally part qualified (ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA/ICAEW/equivalent)
• Good IT literacy including excel skills
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• The ability to communicate clearly with customers
• Appropriate proven experience of Microsoft Excel including setting up, using, and linking spreadsheets
• Able to multitask effectively
• Good organisational and time management skills

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

• Online application
• Interview(s)
• Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.