Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant - Full-time, permanent position

Farringdon, London: £40,961 - £43,117

Hybrid Working (2 days at home and 3 days in the office)

About Us: Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well ; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role: We have an exciting opportunity to join us at MTVH where Assistant Accountants will support the accountants in providing a cohesive and comprehensive financial and management accounting service. Post-holders will be responsible for ensuring the integrity of the accounting entries. In addition they will be responsible for ensuring month end close happens on a timely basis.

What you'll need to succeed: We are looking for a motivated, passionate and ambitious Assistant Accountant to join our team. As an Assistant Accountant you will support the accountants in providing a cohesive and comprehensive financial of management accounting service for our Support function. You will be responsible for ensuring the integrity of the accounting entries. In addition you will be responsible for ensuring month end close happens on a timely basis.

About the day to day in this role:

• Reconcile balance sheet accounts as required in accordance with the month end time table and ensure errors are identified and rectified in a timely and accurate manner
• Assisting in the preparation of budgets, re-forecasts and management accounts
• Complete accurate working papers to support figures used in the financial statements
• Keep organised filing to ensure documentation can be easily found
• Assist with tasks required for the successful completion of the statutory accounts
• Account for items found on reconciliations in the correct manner
• Assist with the production of the monthly Management Accounts
• Produce performance management information as required
• Process month end journals

Key Dates: Interviews will be scheduled for Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 July

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional Beliefs day once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively Serving people better every day to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.