Job Description

We have an opportunity for someone to join the finance department, supporting the Assistant Financial Controller, and our busy team to maintain the company’s Sales Ledger and month end financial journals. In the role of Assistant Accountant you will have the opportunity to develop skills and bring innovative ideas on how processes can be improved. Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Maintain the Sales Ledger and credit control, including preparing the Monthly Debtors report and a Cash flow forecast.
• Carry out a range of Financial Accounting activities including month-end prepayments and accruals journals and petty cash accounting.
• Complete key administrative tasks including corporate credit cards and Insurance.
• Support the Finance team and company’s more broadly by identifying and implementing continual process improvement and through the provision of ad-hoc assistance as required.

What we offer

Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

• We hold Investors in People Gold accreditation – one of just 3% of Housing Associations to achieve this. 82% of staff who took part in the survey say company is a great place to work.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We are looking for a proactive detail orientated individual with experience of maintaining the Sales Ledger in a fast paced environment. You will need experience of using finance software to raise invoices and credit notes, allocate cash and post Journals as well as using great communication skills to perform customer investigations.

Core understanding of financial accounting, including double entry book-keeping and Balance Sheet reconciliations alongside intermediate excel skills are equally as important to your ability to maintain administrative systems with a methodical approach, and working to meet deadlines.

If you’re looking for a new and exciting challenge we encourage you to apply; we consider skills through experience to be as important as skills through qualifications.