Accounts Assistant

**Accounts Assistant **(2858)****:
**Overview**:
**Ref**:
2858

**Salary**:
£30,000 - £30,000/annum

**Location**:

- United Kingdom - England - Greater London - Holborn

**Contract Type**:
Permanent

**Posted**:
14 August 2023

Pinnacle Group provides people-first, integrated services across a range of community-facing assets and infrastructure - including multi-tenure housing, schools, open spaces, public buildings, utilities and broadband networks - as well as a range of complementary employment and wellbeing outcomes. Across the UK, Pinnacle supports over 300,000 homes, 200 schools and 80 public buildings creating value, providing stewardship and generating positive outcomes for our customers, our partners and our clients.

Our Homes business serves communities by providing trusted housing management solutions. We take a collaborative and commercially minded, yet socially principled approach across our portfolio of Affordable, Private Rented and Leasehold properties.

**The Role - Accounts Assistant**

Reporting to the Senior Management Accountant, the Accounts Assistant will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely management accounting information for the Pinnacle Group Ltd.

The job holder will play a pivotal role in Group Finance assisting with the provision and interpretation of high-quality management accounting information.

**Key areas of responsibility**
- Month end close - preparing monthly timetable for circulation, processing journals, and assisting with the preparation of accurate and meaningful monthly Management Accounts in accordance with agreed timescales.
- Assist with preparation and analysis and commentary of monthly results reporting on adverse variances to budget.
- Assist with Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations for all Group companies, including corrections and adjustments.
- In conjunction with the wider Finance Team and Operations continually look to improve processes, systems, and reporting.
- Support operational management by providing reliable reporting and ad-hoc additional information on request.
- Annual budget process - assist with preparation and analysis of year-on-year variances.
- Provide support with annual audit process - audit fieldwork.
- Perform ad-hoc duties as required.

**Essential Criteria**
- Hardworking, organised, resilient, and calm under pressure.
- Used to working to tight deadlines.
- Ability to deal with large volumes of data.
- Strong inter-personal skills
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn and develop.
- Efficient and effective
- Team-player
- Adaptable to the requirements of the business
- Experience/knowledge of Accounting Software packages.
- Excellent IT skills (MS Office suite)
- Aptitude for learning / developing new systems.

**Contact information**:
FinanceDepartment Mock