Job Description

Assistant Management Accountant - 12 month FTC

Are you a proactive and detail-oriented Assistant Management Accountant looking for a new opportunity in a thriving housing association?

We are working with a growing and dynamic housing association near Basingstoke to find an experienced and motivated Assistant Management Accountant on a 12 month FTC. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a busy, fast-paced finance environment, where you'll support the preparation and analysis of management accounts, work alongside budget holders, and gain valuable experience within a highly impactful sector.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be integral to the Management Accounts team, providing key support to the Management Accountant and other stakeholders across the business. Your duties will include:

Fundamental support in the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring timely delivery on set deadlines

Preparing and posting monthly journals; running adhoc financial reports when needed.

Working closely with the Management Accountant to support in analysing management accounts and helping to create budget statements for monthly meetings with budget holders

Working closely with budget holders to support them in understanding their financial data, helping them interpret and manage their management accounts.

Carrying out cost centres reconciliations and identifying areas where there may be detrimental profit positions.

Assisting in providing accurate and timely financial information to the service charge team.

Working closely with the Management Accountant on budget and forecast setting, ensuring accurate projections

Supporting the finance team to help improve the functionality of the business area.

Ensuring compliance with all financial regulations, policies, and procedures

Completing balance sheet reconciliations and making sure control accounts are accurate and up to date.

Maintaining the fixed asset register, making sure cost codes are correctly updated, and performing quarterly fixed asset audits.This is a great opportunity for someone with management accounts experience at this level preferably with experience in housing, looking for their next opportunity within the housing sector. You will be working in a rapidly growing organisation and have an opportunity to work with a diverse range of stakeholders.

Please get in touch if you have the relevant experience above in the Housing sector or wider not-for-profit space!

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you