Finance Officer

Finance Officer
Located in Highgate, N6
Offering between £30,000 - £32,000 per annum
Permanent
Fully office based (37.5 hours)

About the company

This company is a small specialist Housing Association based in Highgate, providing supported housing for older people, helping them to continue living independent, fulfilling lives. They also have a subsidiary care company that provides individualised packages of care and support to older people. Their aim is to improve the quality of life of their customers, building confidence and skills to allow them to live independently. They view all their customers as individuals with specific needs, treating them with respect and dignity and focusing on achieving tangible, measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify monthly accruals and prepayments, including:
• inputting journals on to finance system
• maintaining a monthly schedule of amounts
• Post standard monthly journals.
• Setting up supplier payments on the banking system
• Responsibility for maintaining supplier and debtor ledgers
• Responsibility for banking, including:
• paying-in all cash and cheques received
• collecting petty cash from bank
• Prepare weekly bank reconciliations for all accounts.
• Manage petty cash, including
• requesting top up cash
• supporting care & support staff and housing staff with maintenance of petty cash floats
• reconciling debtors ledger and providing information to manager for credit control.
• preparing debtor statements as required.
• reconciling debtor ledger to control account.
• reconciling purchase ledger to control account.
• Liaise with the housing team to ensure the housing database records are accurate, enabling prompt pursual of tenant arrears.
• raising the rent charges on the housing database
• posting all rental receipts onto the housing database
• exporting rental information from the housing database on a monthly basis
• importing the rental information into the finance system on a monthly basis
• providing tenants with rental statements as required
• Set up direct debits for tenants' rent and care charges and collect correct amount due in a timely fashion.
• Maintain the organization's asset listing
• ensuring all new assets are added to the asset register
• removing all assets disposed of from register

Requirements

• Part qualified CCAB accountant or qualified by experience.
• Accuracy in data processing/entry.
• Need to have the ability to prioritise workload independently, in line with pre-agreed rolling deadlines.
• Well organised, self-motivated, positive and conscientious, able to achieve high standards of performance and having thorough attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and deadlines.
• Strong IT skills, including familiarity with finance systems and the Microsoft Office suite.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience of working in a finance team is essential.
• Experience of reconciliations is essential.
• Experience of working with non-finance staff is desirable.
• Experience of working in small team is desirable.
• Experience of working within a not-for-profit organisation/housing sector is desirable.

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.