Assistant Capital Accountant

Fixed Term Contract to 31st March 2029

Full time, Monday to Friday – 37 hours per week

Closing Date: Monday 8th December 2025 @ 9am

Interview Dates: Tuesday 16th December in person

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Capital Accountant to join us.

This is a key role in which you will deliver high quality financial services and business partnering with the Asset Management Team during the delivery of Warm Homes: Social Housing project as required by Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ).

The Role

You will ensure we deliver our business objectives and uphold our commitment to customers and DESNZ.

As our Assistant Capital Accountant, working within the Asset Management Team, you will establish financial controls and implement reports from various internal and external sources to enable accurate and real time reporting of all Warm Homes Programme capital and revenue expenditure in line with Funding Agreements.

You'll capitalise relevant costs within the Fixed Asset system on Open Accounts, and ensure all aspects of management and statutory accounting data for the Warm Homes programme is correctly reflected.

About you

To be successful you will have achieved AAT Level 4 or be qualified/currently studying towards ACCA/CIMA

You'll have experience of capital and fixed asset accounting and will therefore be able to understand and enforce internal financial controls.

Excellent attention to detail is essential along with strong interpersonal skills and you'll have a proactive attitude to challenge and question in order to obtain accurate information.

You'll also have good ICT skills to include a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Power Query/BI. Previous experience using Open Accounts, eBIS financial software and QL is desirable but training will be provided.

This post requires that the job holder is subject to a DBS check at a basic level.

What we can offer in return:

• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme –buy up to an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Holiday buy back scheme – bdht will buy up to 10 days holiday back from staff
• Team budget every year to enjoy an afternoon out as a team
• Electric vehicle leasing scheme through Octopus Energy
• Pension scheme – defined contributions pension administered by the Social Housing Pension Scheme (SHPS)
• Life insurance is available to members of the pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Healthcare Cash Back Scheme – Healthshield
• Retail discounts scheme
• Long Service Awards (given at 1 year, 5 years and in increments of 5 years following this)
• Reimbursement for professional subscription fees
• Corporate Sponsorship opportunities
• Reimbursement for HRT pre-paid certificates
• Reimbursement for annual flu jab
• Free parking and refreshments
• Monthly staff compliments raffle
• Wellbeing calendar of events throughout the year

Bdht reserves the right to close vacancies before the stated closing date where the volume of applications is extremely high.

INDLOW

BDHT employs 170 people and is dedicated to providing excellent services to our customers by having excellent staff. We are very much a learning organisation. We have a major commitment to identifying transferable skills within our employees and creating opportunities for individuals to grow.

BDHT is a people based organisation and our people are actively encouraged to 'bring their whole selves to work'. The things that are important to you become important to us too.

We believe in our people, and actively support them based upon three core themes: 'Look after yourself', 'Look after your colleagues' and 'Look after the business'.

We are a great employer who pays fairly and has excellent terms and conditions. But above all we absolutely recognise that good performance is linked to happy staff, so we actively encourage fun and expect that it is part of the normal working day.