Finance Assistant

Department: Finance

Role: Finance

Contract Term: Permanent

Date posted: 17 April 2025

Closing date: 9 May 2025

Employment hours: 34.5 hours per week

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday

Salary: £27,466.14 per annum

Benefits:

  • 7 weeks holidays including public holidays
  • Generous training opportunities
  • Attractive pension scheme
  • Life Insurance (death in service benefit)
  • Wellbeing support (Employee Assistance Programme)
  • Subsidised meals
  • Blue Light Discount Card

Location: Head Office - 4 South Oswald Road

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that purchase ledger transactions are posted in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Ensure the on-going and regular reconciliation of supplier accounts.
• Process all payment batches for purchase ledger and accounts receivable.
• Assist with banking processes.
• Process rent accounting, care home income and other sales ledger transactions.
• You will undertake other duties assigned by the Management Reporting Analyst, Finance Manager or Director of Finance.

Additional Responsibilities
Within organisational policies and delegated authority be responsible for:

• Assessing and managing risk as it relates to you and your team objectives.
• Undertaking organisational training as required, including Health and Safety, GDPR compliance and safeguarding etc.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant policies and procedures.
• To provide additional cover within the team as requested when necessary.

Governance & Compliance

• Comply with all policy directions and regulations of VHA in regard to financial regulations and standing orders relating to people management and governance activity.

General

• Promote and represent the Association as and when required.
• Model and promote VHA’s Values and Behaviours and observe and continually promote equal opportunities and diversity in compliance with Association policy.
• Commit to continuous personal and professional development and keep abreast of emerging or new legislation, standards, and best practice.
• Be aware of and comply with personal responsibility for Health and Safety in the workplace and lone-working, and the Association’s general responsibility for the Health and Safety of its customers and tenants.
• Provide Reception cover
• Carry out any other reasonable duties appropriate to this post, as requested.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for the post, please refer to the relevant Job Description and Person Specification attached.

How to Apply

To apply for the vacancy you must complete our online application form - we do not accept CV's. 

Closing date:  09 May 2025 at 12 Noon

Interviews will be held week commencing: 19 May 2025

Apply online

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