Job Introduction
Job Introduction
If you are looking to build a strong finance career in a role where your work genuinely supports frontline health and care services, this Assistant Accountant opportunity offers real scope to grow.
You will play a key role in keeping our financial information accurate, timely and meaningful, helping colleagues across the organisation make informed decisions that ultimately benefit patients and communities.
Based within our Corporate Finance team, this role sits at the heart of how HCRG Care Group operates. You will be trusted with core financial processes including recharges, month end reporting and balance sheet reconciliations.
You will work closely with Finance Business Partners and stakeholders across the business, gaining exposure to a wide range of services and developing your technical and analytical skills along the way.
This is a great opportunity for an ambitious Assistant Accountant who enjoys problem solving, improving processes and working as part of a supportive team. If you are keen to progress your career in finance within a large, values‑led organisation, this role will give you the experience and support to do just that.
Package Description
You will join a friendly and collaborative Corporate Finance team that values accuracy, curiosity and continuous improvement. The team works closely together, supports learning and encourages ideas that make processes better and more efficient. In return, we offer a competitive package designed to support your wellbeing, development and work‑life balance.
- A salary of £30,000 - £32,000 (depending on experience) with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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
This is a hybrid role with weekly travel to our Head Office in Runcorn required weekly.
What You'll do:
- Take ownership of processing central recharges, ensuring they are posted accurately and on time to the correct business units, and reconciling these against actual costs with clear communication of any variances.
- Support the month end close process across assigned areas of the profit and loss and balance sheet, including preparing journals, completing balance sheet reconciliations and maintaining the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
- Contribute to monthly management reporting for Corporate areas, providing clear and meaningful financial commentary to support Finance Business Partners and help the business understand its financial performance.
- Build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, responding to queries, meeting agreed service levels and supporting the delivery of accurate financial information across the organisation.
- Assist with tracking, analysing and allocating project costs, supporting the timely and accurate capitalisation of completed projects where required.
- Actively contribute to continuous improvement within the Finance team, challenging processes and suggesting better ways of working to improve efficiency, accuracy and service delivery.
About You:
Essential criteria
- AAT Level 4 qualified or an Accounting and Finance graduate
- At least 12 months’ experience working within a general ledger function at a similar level
- Experience of completing account reconciliations accurately and to deadline
- Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail
- Ability to work methodically and accurately with minimal supervision
- Experience of engaging with business stakeholders and responding to queries collaboratively
- A proactive, ambitious team player with a can‑do attitude and an interest in continuous improvement
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.
