Finance Assistant

Overview

With an average annual budget of £6bn, there is a need to ensure that public monies allocated to Homes England are managed timely, accurately and in line with programme parameters. This role sits within the Transaction Services Team within Finance, and will support the Transaction Services Manager in the delivery of all finance transactional processing activities, maintaining accuracy and integrity of financial ledgers.

Homes England's activities play a key role in ensuring the delivery of Homes England's strategic objectives and keeps the frontline operations working effectively.

Key responsibilities will include:

• processing high volume financial transactions and data within deadlines and in accordance with financial controls.
• working as part of a team to manage shared mailboxes and respond to telephone enquiries from internal and external customers, ensuring satisfactory resolution.
• validating and creating new supplier and customer records.
• processing daily payment runs for multiple ledgers.
• allocating all bank receipts to customer or general accounts.
• credit control for all overdue debt.
• working as a team to achieve departmental Key Performance Indicators and targets.

Internally this role is called Accounts Administrator.

Person specification

Homes England is looking for someone who has:

• confidence in prioritising workloads and the ability to work under minimum supervision.
• good organisation skills with excellent attention to detail.
• the ability to work at pace. Processing high volume, high value transactions accurately and competently is essential.
• a professional, courteous and respectful manner at all times.
• competent Excel skills and the ability to extract data from multiple sources.

Benefits

Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays. Homes England have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. Homes England offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Homes England offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

At Homes England, Homes England is committed to your continued professional and personal development. Homes England pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for Homes England's employees. Homes England also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)