Assistant Management Accountant - Service Charges

We are looking for a detail-oriented Assistant Management Accountant with a passion for service charge accounting to join our Finance Business Partnering team. This role is essential in supporting the accurate and timely preparation of management accounts, focusing on the service charge accounts to ensure financial integrity and transparency. You will be pivotal in driving improvements to reporting processes and collaborating with various internal teams to deliver financial insightful and actionable information.

If you enjoy diving deep into data, solving financial challenges, and ensuring service charge accuracy, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Service Charge Accounts: Reconcile service charge accounts to ensure the accuracy of month-end and year-end financials, maintaining financial integrity.
• Month-End Reporting: Assist in preparing monthly management accounts and variance analysis against the budget with insightful commentaries for the service charge team, ensuring that reports are accurate and delivered in a timely manner.
• Journal Management: Prepare and post service charge journals, including accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, ensuring correct nominal ledger entries.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for service charges, and drive forecasts against these budgets.
• Audit Support: Contribute to the production of annual financial statements, working closely with auditors to ensure compliance and accuracy.
• Collaboration: Work with the Rent and Service Charge teams and Finance Business Partnering teams to improve reporting processes, ensuring that service charge information is clear and actionable.
• Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in current service charge processes and develop action plans to enhance efficiency and reporting accuracy.

Who We're Looking For

We welcome applications from individuals who are either progressing through their professional qualifications (ACCA, CIMA, CA, ACA) or have significant relevant experience, particularly in service charge accounting within the social housing sector.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, CA, ACA) with a commitment to achieving full qualification.
• Experience in management accounting, with a strong focus on service charge accounts.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong technical competence in accounting systems.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare budgets, forecasts, and financial reports.
• Proven ability to reconcile service charge accounts and maintain financial accuracy.
• Strong analytical skills, with an eye for detail and a passion for data integrity.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and with external auditors.

Further information   

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email [email protected] and we will respond as soon as possible. 

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.   

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.   

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.