Job Description

Location : Gainsborough, United Kingdom Job Advert

Who are Acis Group?

We began as a social landlord providing homes in West Lindsey. Now we provide over 7,000 affordable homes across the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber. Our homes include ones for affordable rent, Shared Ownership, people aged 55 and over and supported housing \xe2\x80\x93 but now, we do so much more. We take our roles in our customer\xe2\x80\x99s lives seriously, putting them first in everything we do. And as part of that we\xe2\x80\x99ve grown to provide wider services to truly support the communities in which we work.

In addition, there are over 4,000 learners a year are supported in local communities stretching from Sheffield to Mablethorpe \xe2\x80\x93 with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider.

Your role is all about being the first point of contact for our internal customers, ensuring our financial reporting reflects how we are doing as an organisation. That our day to day processes are followed and around everything, finance is done on time, in the right way. Being an Assistant Accountant opens the door on a whole range of future options and career progression. The more you put in, the more you get out.

Being part of the Acis team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll get:

• Generous holiday entitlement \xe2\x80\x93 At least 25 days annual leave every year, plus bank holidays
• Enhanced pension contributions up to 10%
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• Staff benefits with Paycare \xe2\x80\x93 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 \xe2\x80\x93 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
• Enhanced sick pay scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme to support you and your family
• 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 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

What a good Assistant Accountant looks like to us;

• A great standard of education, financial/accountancy degree or related A-Level qualification would be an advantage
• Has started or is fully committed to commencing a professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
• 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

What will help you stand out from the crowd:

• A person who has the potential to develop with the business
• 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\xe2\x80\x99ll be adept at change, having got hands on experience living and breathing new ways of working

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.

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\xe2\x80\x99re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate Hours 37
Department Finance
Job Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Salary \xc2\xa320,590 - \xc2\xa331,767 dependent upon qualifications

Acis Group