Assistant Accountant - Financial Reporting

Assistant Accountant - Financial Reporting & Control

12 Months Fixed Term Contract

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Accountant role on a 12 months fixed-term basis.

Reporting to the Financial Accountant, you will be working in a small team of 3 within the Financial Control team.

Your role will be supporting the Financial Accountant with the following key responsibilities:

• Assisting in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial records.
• Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, reconciling accounts and investigating differences.
• Completion of compliance checks to ensure key financial controls are being adhered to.
• Assisting with controls around supplier management, validating changes to masterfile records.
• Assisting with effective management of company credit cards.
• Completion of monthly and year end reporting activities.
• Processing journals and interfaces from other systems.
• Assisting with the preparation and delivery of statutory and regulatory returns, internal and external audits.

About you

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be actively studying towards an accountancy qualification –CIMA/ACCA or minimum AAT Level 3
• Have a good understanding of balance sheet reporting, financial controls, financial systems, processes and procedures.
• Have some experience of performing balance sheet reconciliations and assisting with audits.
• Be an excellent communicator with excellent IT skills, knowledge of Excel and a high degree of numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Be able to prioritise tasks and manage conflicting demands.
• Have a strong customer focus with a high service standard.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.