Assistant Management Accountant
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Fulltime: 37hrs per week
Proposed Interview Date: 12th March (TBC)
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Management Accountant to support the Management Accountants and Financial Controller in preparing and analysing financial information for provision to budget managers, senior management and external stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Carry out the month end close processes, including identifying, calculating and posting all month end accruals and prepayments.
- Participate in discussions with budget managers in monthly reviews, quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting meetings, accurately capturing information discussed that has a financial impact and translating this into accurate budgets and forecasts.
- Liaise with external auditors as part of the year-end audit process, acting as main point of contact for transactional/ledger queries, routing requests for information to the relevant teams/team members and preparing supporting analysis.
- Support in submission of monthly payroll information to outsourced payroll service, verifying that all staff pay changes, new starters and leavers are captured and calculated accurately.
- Play an active part in the development of new systems, processes and reporting, using feedback from budget managers and others in the business to identify opportunities to deliver improved customer service.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Role Profile
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
Educations and Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent or qualified by experience (E)
- Minimum AAT-level 2 (E)
Experience:
- Experience of assisting in the preparation of Management Accounts / statutory reporting including accruals/prepayments, posting monthly journals and carrying out budgeting and forecasting activities.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Well-established knowledge of financial principles and month end processes.
- Able to communicate effectively with non-Finance colleagues and keen to provide a high-quality service to other areas of the organisation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Well organised, calm and methodical; able to prioritise and work to tight deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.
- Good IT skills to include Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, particularly Microsoft Excel to manipulate high volumes of data to extract meaningful insights.
- Collaborative and adaptable approach. Comfortable handling varied tasks working in a small team.
- Ability to work unsupervised, self-motivated and to judge when to seek advice from manager.
Please note this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check
The Company
We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk.
We manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.
We offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.
At Saffron
We have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Saffron to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our tenants. We trust our colleagues to do the right thing and we are looking for people whose values are aligned with ours (PACE – Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving).
You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.
We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.
As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Community.
Our Strategy
Inspiring Organisation:
Outstanding colleague engagement
Inspiring Communities:
90% customer satisfaction
Inspiring Innovation:
Creating £3m of capacity to invest
Governance
We will operate in a culture where strong governance, compliance and risk assessment is business as usual.
Homes
We will actively manage our existing homes, and deliver new affordable housing to provide quality homes for current and future customers.
Our Benefits
Learning And Development
Time Off
Prioritising Mental Health
Aviva Pension Scheme
Health Schemes
Salary Sacrifice Schemes
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