Assistant Accountant

Coin Street Community Builders are looking for a new Assistant Accountant to join our Finance team on a full-time fixed-term contract.  

 

About the Assistant Accountant role 

This role sits within our finance team, who provide financial control and support across all three entities of Coin Street: Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB), Coin Street Centre Trust (CSCT), and Coin Street Secondary Housing Co-Operative (CSS). As our new Assistant Accountant, you will focus on managing the daily banking process, ensuring transactions are accurately uploaded and maintained in the finance system to support smooth financial operations. 

 

As our new Assistant Accountant, you will 

• Manage daily banking tasks, including extracting statements and uploading transactions to finance systems and databases. 
• Process and reconcile monthly credit card transactions, ensuring compliance with company policy. 
• Maintain financial data accuracy by reviewing VAT codes, reconciling balance sheet accounts, and closing outstanding purchase orders. 
• Preparing intercompany journal entries. 
• Support system improvements, including open banking integration, and assist in staff training to ensure adherence to financial procedures.  

 

To be successful you will need to demonstrate the following 

• AAT Level 4 or part-CIMA qualification. 
• Demonstrable experience in posting bank transactions  
• Complete understanding of accruals and prepayments. 
• Experience of using computerised accounting systems and proficiency in the use of MS Excel. 

 

About Coin Street Community Builders 

We provide the opportunities and spaces for people to lead their own change.  

Our activities are wide and far reaching. From giving families and children the best start in life through our childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality spaces to live, work and play on the land that we own.  

We promote enterprise, creativity, and lifelong learning whether that is through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise, or delivering programmes and activities.  We provide housing that supports our community; we champion co-operative housing and influence local and national housing policy.  

From sports and dance to healthy eating and gardening, we offer a range of facilities and activities accessible to everyone to support health and wellbeing in our community.  

    

Contract   

Fixed-Term (6 months), Full-Time (35 hours per week)  

 

Salary   

£33,228 per annum 

 

Extras 

• Equivalent of 35 days annual leave (including Bank holidays), pro rata for part-time staff. 
• 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution and 3% employee contribution)/Auto-enrolment qualifying pension for zero hours staff. 
• Health and wellbeing support, including online mental health therapy sessions.   
• Free gym membership at Colombo, annual flu jabs. 
• Commitment to training and development. 

 

To Apply   

To apply for the Assistant Accountant role, please click the following link to be redirected to our Recruitment Portal. If you experience difficulties accessing the portal, please send an e-mail to recruitment@coinstreet.org.  

 

Closing Date   

Please submit your application by midnight on Sunday, 28 September 2025. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.  

  

Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Basic DBS check.