Finance Assistant

Are you looking to start a career in finance? Or perhaps you’ve got some experience but you’re looking to develop your skills and gain some exposure to other areas within finance? If so, this could be the perfect role for you

Here at Astraline, we’re now looking for a Finance Assistant to join us.

Astraline, part of Johnnie Johnson Housing, supports thousands of people across the UK to stay safe and live independently in their own home. We work in partnership with healthcare professionals, local authorities, housing associations and health and socialcare providers to deliver efficient and person-centred care for their customers and are constantly growing and offering our service to even more people who need us.

As our Finance Assistant, you’ll be predominantly supporting the Finance Director with various month end transactions, ensuring robust controls are maintained and operational measures are met for both the debtors and creditors ledgers. You’ll assist withbank postings and bank reconciliations, ensuring debts are paid on time and for keeping the ledger clean. Once you’ve got to grips with this, we’d also like you to help with improving the controls around payables and receivables and assist with cash flow reportingon a regular basis.

So now you’ve heard a bit about the role, let us tell you a bit about the team It’s important to know who you might be working with, right?

**Our Team**

You will report directly into the Finance Director of Astraline but sit within the wider Finance Team for Johnnie Johnson Housing. You’ll be working in our lovely, modern new office for two to three days per week and also from home, we’re quite flexibleonce you’re up to speed with things. As well as providing support to the organisation, we support each other too. We work incredibly hard, but we also like to have fun and you’ll often finding us catching up outside of work.

**About You**

**Some experience is desirable, but not essential - what’s more important is that you are driven, enthusiastic and have a genuine desire to learn. We’d like you to be a strong communicator with good organisational skills and be able to work flexiblywithin a team environment to meet strict deadlines. Good IT skills including some exposure to Microsoft packages, particularly Excel are a**pre-requisite.

**And the benefits of working for us?**

We’ve adopted a completely agile way of working too. As long as our residents and customers are put first, we’ll also give you a degree of flexibility using our 'My Lifestyle’ guidelines, meaning you can attend the important things in life. So, whether you’vegot a gym class you’d love to attend, your child’s school play or maybe it’s just that you’ve got a new fridge being delivered, we will work with you to be flexible

We also offer a fantastic holiday allowance of 33 days per annum (including statutory holidays) which rises to 38 days after 5 years’ service (pro-rata for fixed term contracts). We can offer you a 35-hour working week, an enhanced 5% employer contributionpension scheme and a recognition scheme with both financial and non-financial rewards such as gift vouchers, early finishes or even a later start There’s loads more fantastic benefits too - you can find out more about these on our careers site

**About us**

We are a small but growing provider of telephone enabled care to over 50,000 individuals. We are part of a not for profit housing association, housing over 8,000 residents across the North West, North East, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Our vision **Living Longer**, **Living Better** is simply about helping people age well and live independently for longer.