CALICO HOMES LIMITED

JOB DESCRIPTION

POST: Assistant Accountant GRADE: 5

SERVICE AREA:Finance and Corporate Services

JOB PURPOSE:To provide accountancy and administrative support within Financial Services.

RESPONSIBLE TO:Senior Accountant

RESPONSIBLE FOR:None

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. To assist nominated budget holders in the management of their budgets and provide monitoring information including management accounts as appropriate and within agreed timescales.
  1. To assist in the preparation and monitoring of revenue and capital budgets.
  1. To assist in the preparation of statutory accounts.
  1. To maintain the fixed asset register, to comply with component accounting requirements, in-line with the company’s fixed asset policy.
  1. To be responsible for the reconciliation of control accounts within agreed timescales.
  1. To be responsible for the day-to-day administration of the treasury management/cashflow activities, including preparing payment files.
  1. To undertake the day-to-day administration of the accounting software including the maintenance and management of the coding system.
  1. To complete Supporting People, Homes and Community Agency and other statutory returns as necessary.
  1. To be responsible for the maintaining records to ensure all Supporting People income is collected. To monitor the income and ensure that all discrepancies are investigated appropriately and action taken.
  1. To maintain records and undertake reconciliation of Service Charges to ensure all appropriate costs are recoverable.
  1. To provide financial information for bids for new business, for review by the Senior Accountant.
  1. To attend meetings and working groups as required.
  1. To administer the leasing arrangements for other supplies and services as directed by the Senior Accountant.
  1. To compile performance management and statistical data as appropriate and within agreed timescales.
  1. To be responsible for managing own workload and prioritisingwork to ensure deadlines are met.
  1. To ensure office is covered between core working hours of 9-5.
  1. To be proactively involved in the work of a Corporate Group, in order to make an effective contribution to the successful achievement of the group’s aims and objectives.
  1. Any other duties laid down from time to time consistent with the grading of the post.

Footnote

This Job Description summarises the major responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to exclude other activities, nor future changes from the postholder’s responsibilities.

CALICO HOMES LIMITED

PERSON SPECIFICATION

POST:Assistant Accountant

Selection Criteria
/ Essential/
Desirable

E/D

/ Means of Assessment:
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. / Professional qualified accountant (CCAB) (part) or
Association of Accounting Technicians (or working towards) or equivalent. / E / A/C
2. / GCSE passes in three subjects at Grade C or equivalent, including Maths and English Language. / D / A/C
EXPERIENCE:
1. / Practical accountancy experience with a registered social landlord or similar environment. / D / A/I
2. / Minimum of two years experience of financial administration and routine accountancy working. / E / A/I
3. / Experience in using finance accounting systems. / E / A/I
4. / Experience in using Microsoft excel and Microsoft Word. / E / A/S
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. / Experience of Supporting People funding. / D / A/I
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
1. / The ability to undertake routine accountancy work with the minimum of supervision. / E / A/I
2. / The ability to undertake more complex accountancy tasks under the instruction and supervision of senior staff. / E / A/I
3. / The ability to plan and organise work to ensure deadlines are met. / E / I
4. / The ability to use financial accounting systems and in particular the ability to use and develop spreadsheets. / E / I/T

Method of Assessment

A Application form

IInterview

P Presentation

W Written Exercise

SSkills test

CProduction of Certificates

BEHAVIOURS:
The following behaviours describe how we expect staff to go about their work in a day to day basis. These behaviours help to create a workplace where everyone who works with Calico has the opportunity to learn and grow their talents in an environment where they feel valued and supported and where their efforts are rewarded and recognised. These behaviours will be assessed during the interview stage.
Passionate about customers
Customer focus is at the heart of what we do at Calico. This can be whether you deal with customers who live in our neighbourhoods or internal customers from other teams or partner organisations.
Rising to the challenge
Calico is an ambitious organisation that is determined to keep improving. This means that every member of staff should be supported to work at a pace and level that enables us to bring about the positive changes we want to achieve.
Committed to Calico
We all need to get the best out of our time at work and also put the best of ourselves into the work we do. To make sure we continue to achieve as an organisation we need dedicated staff to keep us moving forward.
Maximising Potential
There are always opportunities for us to work smarter, not harder, and that’s exactly what we need to do to make sure everybody achieves their potential. This means showing a willingness to try new things and put things right where necessary.
Inspiring leadership
We need confident managers who communicate honestly and appropriately, who lead by example and deliver on promises. They need to motivate, support, challenge and reward their teams to achieve high performance and coach their staff to unlock and develop their full potential / E
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