Finance Assistant

5 months ago

Luton, United Kingdom The Housing Network Full time

**The Housing Network** are looking for a **Finance Assistant **to join our team in **Luton**.

The Finance Assistant provides key support to the Technical Finance Manager and Accounts Payable Manager through maintaining financial systems, recording and processing financial information, data entry and general financial administration. This provides the organisation with the necessary records for reliable performance reporting and accurate VAT and Corporation tax returns.

**Responsibilities & Duties**:
**Billing**
- Support production of monthly sales invoices on a timely basis sending invoices and helping with queries

**Reporting and audit**
- Processing banking transactions
- Prepare bank reconciliations
- Assisting in preparing month-end schedules and reports including Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Perform necessary follow up on unreconciled items
- Keeping data validation spreadsheets up to date

**Accounts payable and expenses**
- Inputting purchase invoices
- Supplier statement reconciliations

**VAT**
- Assist with creation and completion of quarterly VAT returns

**Other**
- Ensuring accurate record keeping
- Aiding with transfer to new finance system
- Assisting in processing documentation including SOPs and flowcharts
- Complying with company policies
- Undertaking other finance administrative tasks and general support to the Finance Manager as required

**Personal Characteristics**:
**Skills**
- Confident interpersonal and communication skills
- Good attention to detail and ability to sense check draft workings for errors and exceptions
- Problem solving in competent, logical and efficient manner
- Intermediate system and Excel user - use of Vlookups, Pivots, and SUMIFS
- Maintain and present working files clearly, including explanatory comments to help reviewers validate and approve draft submissions and any follow up actions

**Knowledge**:
**Essential**
- Basic knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping procedures
- Numerate with financial awareness
- Ability to work efficiently, requesting support where unsure, and support process improvement initiatives proactively
- Ability to manage workloads, prioritise and work to deadlines

**Desirable**
- Use of Sage Line 50 Professional
- Basic knowledge of ERP systems

**Behaviour**:

- Good composure under pressure
- Drive to complete tasks methodically and accurately within the specified deadlines
- Take initiative for timely follow up of queries to avoid errors or correct them quickly if they do happen
- Champion best practice and foster an environment of continuous improvement and right first time and follow up root cause of errors
- Understand and support company objectives
- We would expect you at all times to: act with integrity and discretion, act with due skill, care and diligence, build a solid understanding of requirements of current role with view to develop into areas of expertise, act with professionalism, be open and cooperative with colleagues, demonstrate compassion to those within the Company and those we support in the accommodation

**About the company**:
The Housing Network (“THN”) is a socially purposed, for-profit business that provides accommodation and support services to public bodies to support their homelessness prevention activities.

THN has grown exponentially since its establishment in 2014, becoming one of the larger private providers of specialist accommodation, and now works with The Ministry of Justice and almost 80 local authorities. Turnover across group companies is expected to exceed £30m in the latest financial year and having won 4 major contracts, is forecast to enjoy rapid growth.

THN delivers substantial social value and is proud of the work it does. In 2021-22 it saved local authorities an estimated £22m on what they would have otherwise incurred on hotels and B&Bs.

THN1505

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£27,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Are you happy to work 5 days a week in the office in Luton?

Work Location: In person

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