Senior Finance Assistant (Receivables)

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The role

Senior Finance Assistant (Receivables)

Farringdon, London

£35,493 - £37,361

This role: This is your opportunity to join an exciting and innovative Finance team in the role of Senior Finance Assistant. The role reports to the Income Manager and you will have three direct reports with whom you will work to ensure that processes and controls are in place to enable all income to be accurately recorded in the finance accounting system and housing management system. You will also deputise for the Assistant Income Manager in their absence.

What you'll need to succeed:

Leadership

• Previous Managerial Experience
• Strong communication, networking, negotiation and influencing skill
• You'll strive for continuous improvement and have an innovative approach to problem solving

Housing Management

• Process all transactions from our bank accounts web page so that they can be loaded onto our Cash Management System daily
• Ensure daily cash receipts from the companies' bank accounts match the Receivables Bank Statement/cashbook
• Obtain Housing Benefit Schedules and payment schedules for payments made by the DWP to match the payments made by the local authorities so that they can be recorded onto the Housing Management system

Key Dates: Interviews planned to take place from Wednesday 22 January

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.