Assistant Financial Accountant

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 complementaryemployment 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 Central Services teams support Pinnacle’s operating businesses by providing professional support to the operational business including: Compliance and Audit, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, IT, Procurement, Health and Safety.

**The Role - Assistant Financial Accountant**

Reporting to the Group Financial Accountant the Assistant Financial Accountant will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely management accounting information.

**Duties/Key Responsibilities**
- Assist in researching technical accounting guidance and conclude on accounting topics.
- Development and maintenance of efficient and scalable processes that will enable the accounting team to keep pace with the ever changing & challenging statutory reporting landscape.
- Support monthly close, consolidation process, quarterly shareholder reporting requirements, statutory financial reporting, and the annual audit process.
- Raising of intercompany invoice to parent company re Finance Team Costs
- Booking of costs paid by PG on behalf of TStar
- Shareholder Loan Cards - agree balances quarterly
- Quarterly VAT
- Agree intercompany account with parent company - monthly
- IFRS 9 model - work with AR team to ensure calculation is correct and adjustment monitored
- IFRS 15 - work with Ops, Legal Team & Data Analytics for all new contracts:

- Prepare the 5-step process to determine revenue recognition
- Document invoicing process and prepare summary of invoicing for the year
- Identify all new leases in the year
- Maintain database of all leases - vehicle, property
- Calculate adjustments to convert monthly management results to statutory results
- Prepare Corporation Tax accrual
- Maintain Tax analysis for year-end compliance - legal fees, capex, disallowable items
- Prepare NCI accrual
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Update the Business Plan with actual results
- BS reconciliations
- Preparation of financial statements for single entities and consolidations on CaseWare - prior experience and knowledge of CaseWare is highly desirable
- Audit deliverables prior to on site date
- Audit field queries - managing them from inception to conclusion
- Filing of signed accounts at Companies House in accordance with timeline
- Quarterly on account payments calculation
- Assist with the annual compliance process
- Collating the information required to prepare the reporting pack as per the requirements checklist
- Additional statistical surveys and reporting (e.g. payment practices report) and ad-hoc requests as and when they arise

**Skills**
- Hardworking, resilient, and calm under pressure
- Used to working to tight deadlines
- Strong inter-personal skills
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn and develop
- Efficient and effective
- Team-player
- Adaptable to the requirements of the business
- Ability to analyse and proactively develop solutions
- Part-qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA)
- Strong technical ability
- Extensive experience/knowledge of audit
- Excellent IT skills (MS Office suite)
- Experience of CaseWare a distinct advantage
- Aptitude for learning / developing new systems