Finance Assistant (18 month FTC)
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The Vacancy
We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
We’re recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join our team based in Portsmouth on an 18-month fixed term contract. This is a full-time position, working 37 hours per week, with a minimum of 20% of this to be office-based to promote collaboration and team working.
Want to know what we can offer you?
- 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
- A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
- Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
- Private medical insurance
- Health care cash plan called Medicash
- Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Access to counselling, legal and financial information
- Electric car scheme
- Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes.
Here’s the facts about the role:
As Finance Assistant, you’ll be working within either of the Transactions team (Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable) to provide excellent service in the execution of transactions processing.
The role requires a flexible and adaptable person willing to work in a multi-functional role where it’s expected you will develop a specialism but also be able to provide cover and job rotation.
The Finance Assistant will undertake duties as directed by the Accounts Payable Team Leader and Transactions Manager, including:
- Processing invoices for payment in line with procedures, using electronic invoice scanning.
- Reconciling supplier statements to purchase ledger.
- Assisting in the weekly payment run and adhoc payments as required.
- Ensuring all supplier invoices are processed in a timely manner in accordance with team KPI’s.
- Supplier invoices are received electronically and processed automatically.
- Supplier payments are made to the correct beneficiary.
- Support with Council Tax and Utility payment processing.
- Support with Managing Agent payment processing.
- Process Sundry payments using Finance and Housing System.
You’ll be fully conversant with the purchase to pay system, responding to supplier enquiries and internal customers as needed.
The Finance Assistant will undertake duties as directed by the Accounts Receivable Team Leader and Transactions Manager, including:
- Manage Debit and Credit Card transactions and statements (Soldo and RBS)
- Performing rent accounting processes in line with procedures.
- Processing all direct debits and deal with returned direct debits as well as BACS processes.
- Processing Housing Benefit files and overpayments.
- Reconciling suspense accounts, ensuring they are cleared.
- Post bank entries onto the customers’ accounts and reconcile bank accounts.
- Process cashbook journals.
- Post all credit card transactions, chasing card holders for coding as necessary.
You’ll be fully conversant with the accounts receivable system, responding to customers as needed.
Experience of working in a transactions team is essential. You’ll be proficient in all Microsoft office applications. Experience of basic accounting including balance sheet reconciliations, double entry and accruals/prepayments is desirable, but not essential.
If you have the ability to work accurately and efficiently as part of a team, we’d like to hear from you!
The Company
We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.
Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.
We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the fifth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.
This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.
Living VIVID
We’re ranked 91 in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For and ranked 12 amongst housing associations.
As a ‘people’ business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people’s development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.
Buy / sell
annual leave
Pension
scheme
Smart
working
From 26 days holiday per year
Private medical / medicash benefits
Enhanced
paternity / maternity leave
Qualification funding support
Electric car scheme
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.
We’re a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.
If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us
on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help.
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