**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 356301**Salary**:

- £63,731 - £74,977**Job grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Corporate Finance
- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Working with a team within Transaction Services, the Head of Transaction Services will play a critical role in providing assurance that processes are compliant with Government Functional Standards, spend controls, governance and internal controls. This is to be achieved by ensuring fit for purpose systems, building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the business, whilst ensuring oversight of all processes delivered by the Transaction Services Team and its relationship with the wider Finance Team.**Job description**:
We are looking for an individual with significant experience in the delivery and improvement of finance activities ensuring they are efficient, provide value for money and support the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting.

You will be joining our small but experienced team of 19 people, who are committed to delivering a first class frontline operation to support achievement of our strategic objectives through accuracy and integrity of transaction processing.

This is a rare chance to support a fast pace team within a national organisation with real social purpose.

**Person specification**:
Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

Support senior managers to prioritise workload, monitor resource to maintain effective controls and efficiencies.

Ensure whole team has sufficient knowledge and skills to deliver in their roles, supporting line managers where needed with development and performance management.

Advise senior leaders on key matters, escalating issues as required.

Be a visible leader and act as a point of challenge.

Drive efficiencies and effectiveness of the team, processes, data and systems to enable the delivery of Homes England Strategic Plan.

You will be experienced in all aspects of transaction finance processing including accounts payable, accounts receivable, insurance and lease cars.

You will be comfortable to develop and lead an efficient and motivated team to deliver accurate and timely transaction services, promoting an inclusive culture with ambition, innovation, creativity and customer focus.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way.

**Benefits**:
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We 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.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

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**Selection process details**

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