Finance Officer

3 weeks ago


Sittingbourne, United Kingdom Southern Housing Full time

**The role**

Managing over 77,000 homes, Southern Housing is dedicated to delivering excellent services and improving our resilience. We are also keen to build new homes and grow our organisation.

Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re proud to live. We’re big and we’re local. Residents are at the heart of our services, and we use our size to influence positive change in the areas where we operate.

We’re looking for a Finance Officer work alongside the Cashbook Team, supporting the Senior Finance officer and cashbook team to deliver a comprehensive income recovery and cash management service to the organisation.

**This role is a fixed term contract for 1 year to cover maternity cover.**

Within this role you will be ensuring that all relevant financial controls are maintained and correct procedures followed, complying with current legislation. Develop and maintain good professional working relationships with customers and partners and to respond to enquiries and correspondence. Deliver a customer focused service, working with the team to meet the objectives in the team plan. Ensure that all relevant financial controls are maintained and correct procedures are followed and kept up to date.

You’ll be a great team player, willing to help out and be able to adapt to different workloads.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Committed to putting external and internal customers first, understanding their needs and expectations and achieving results by delivering a customer focused service
- Contribute to an engaged and high performing team
- Develop and maintain good professional working relationships with customers and partners
- Undertakes routine delegated financial management and accounting procedures
- Work with cross departmental colleagues to provide and share information
- Manage relationships with external organisations who provide goods and services to our residents and the organisation, respond to enquiries, customer complaints and correspondence

**What you’ll need**
- Sun systems or similar
- Previous experience in a large organisation, preferably social housing
- Excel, IT and system skills
- Able to manage high-volume workloads with tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills including cross team collaboration

**Closing date**: Sunday 11th February 2024 at 23:59

**Shortlisting**: W/C 12TH February 2024

**Interview**: W/C 19TH February 2024

**We reserve the rights to close this advert earlier than advertised if we receive a high volume of applicants.**

**About us**

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the **heart** of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own** **We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

**What's in it for you**

**Pension**

**Life**
**assurance**

**Healthcare cash plan**

**Eyecare & dental**

**Birthday**
**leave**

**Retailers discounts**

**Cycle**
**to work**

**Buy & sell**
**annual leave**

**Season ticket loan**

**In-house academy & career development**

**Flexible working**

**Inclusion & Diversity**

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.



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