Assistant Accountant

Job Introduction

HCRG Care Group are looking for a detail orientated and dedicated Assistant Accountant to join our fantastic team.

The role is primarily responsible for ensuring that all central recharges are processed to the relevant business units in an accurate and timely manner. The role will also assist in the preparation of monthly management reporting for Corporate within HCRG Care Group. This is an exciting opportunity that will allow you to develop your technical accounting and wider professional skills to ensure you can progress your career in finance.

You will develop your analytical and reporting skills to provide basic financial reporting commentary to support the Finance Business Partners in the preparation of financial reports, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis in line with group finance service levels and timetables. In addition, you may be required to support internal and external stakeholders in the meeting of agreed SLAs.

Base: 4 days per week remote working at home, 1 day per week in the Head Office in Runcorn.

Main Responsibility

• Ensuring all monthly recharges are posted to the relevant business units accurately and timely.
• Reconciling recharges quarterly against actual costs with any variances communicated to the relevant business units.
• Assist in the production of month end close process and reporting across assigned areas of the P&L and B/S.
• Support the development of continuous improvement initiatives within the Finance team.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the P&L and B/S. Calculate and post relevant journals to ensure to ensure the accounts are reflective of underlying financial performance and assist with commentary.
• Create effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in the adherence to agreed SLAs and KPIs to internal and external customers.
• Assist with balance sheet reconciliations to ensure all are completed accurately and in a timely manner including full reconciliation support and details of reconciling items and action required to remediate.
• Support the business with any ad-hoc information requests.
  
  

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• An ambitious individual looking to grow and team player with a “can do” attitude
• Experience of continuous improvement, challenging and changing processes
• Ability to actively engage business stakeholders and to respond to queries in a collaborative manner
• Minimum of 12 months experience working within a GL function at a similar level
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience of completing account reconciliations
• Ability to work methodically, accurately, and to deadlines with minimum supervision
  
  

Desirable:

• AAT Qualified
• Studying for a recongised accounting qualification (ACA/CIMA/ ACCA or equivalent)
• Experience of Business Central or similar ERP systems
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience of working with P&L’s and completing accruals, prepayments and variance analysis
  
  

Package Description

As an Assistant Accountant, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group.

You will feel valued as an Assistant Accountant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £28,000 with group pension
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy. 

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