Finance Assistant
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Finance Assistant
Closing Date - 24/3/2025
Interviews will be held in person at the Newcastle upon Tyne office week commencing 31/3/2025 and 7/4/2025
A bit about the role...
With an average annual budget of £6bn, there is a need to ensure that public monies allocated to Homes England are managed timely, accurately and in line with programme parameters. This role sits within the Transaction Services Team within Finance, and will support the Transaction Services Manager in the delivery of all finance transactional processing activities, maintaining accuracy and integrity of financial ledgers.
Our activities play a key role in ensuring the delivery of Homes England's strategic objectives and keeps the frontline operations working effectively.
Key responsibilities will include:
- processing high volume financial transactions and data within deadlines and in accordance with financial controls.
- working as part of a team to manage shared mailboxes and respond to telephone enquiries from internal and external customers, ensuring satisfactory resolution.
- validating and creating new supplier and customer records.
- processing daily payment runs for multiple ledgers.
- allocating all bank receipts to customer or general accounts.
- credit control for all overdue debt.
- working as a team to achieve departmental Key Performance Indicators and targets.
Internally this role is called Accounts Administrator.
A bit about you…
We are looking for someone who has:
- confidence in prioritising workloads and the ability to work under minimum supervision.
- good organisation skills with excellent attention to detail.
- the ability to work at pace. Processing high volume, high value transactions accurately and competently is essential.
- a professional, courteous and respectful manner at all times.
- competent Excel skills and the ability to extract data from multiple sources.
Who are we?
Homes England : The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What we offer...
As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.
If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.