Senior Finance Officer

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services, Sanctuary Group employs around 13,000 people and manages more than 100,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Senior Finance Officer
Worcester based with a balance of home and office working
£28,798
- £30,313 per year
35 hours per week
We are looking for a Senior Finance Officer to join our Capital Accounting team. As a Senior Finance Officer, you will be ambitious and enjoy a varied role within a busy and supportive team. In this role you will predominantly be responsible for supporting the reconciliation of accounts to ensure income and expenditure is appropriately accounted for, whilst also ensuring data is accurately recorded. The ideal candidate will come from a finance background and will possess excellent data analysis skills.
The role of Senior Finance Officer will include:
- Providing accurate and timely financial information whilst maintaining effective financial systems, to support decision making and business planning
- Maintaining relationships with other areas of the business including Development Finance, Property Services and Customer Service Centre
- Providing an effective administration service ensuring workloads are manageable in line with business requirements.
- Identifying areas for improvement and shortfalls in service delivery and recommending actions to remedy this, as appropriate
- Maintenance of the fixed asset register including additions, disposals and transfers.
Skills and experiences:
- AAT part/fully qualified, or equivalent level of qualification is desirable
- Knowledge of the types of information held on an asset register is desirable
- Previous experience in a similar transactional finance role along with strong analytical skills is essential.
- The ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work loads.
- Excellent communication, customer service skills with a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications with proven excel analysis skills using a variety of functions and formulas.
- Previous experience using SAP would be an advantage
Why work for us?
One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 13,000 people and manages over 100,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
- A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
- Life Assurance
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
Role salary is £25,944 with an additional policy allowance of £2,853 per annum (rising to £27,309 with an additional policy allowance of £3,004 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
Closing Date: 17 January 2024
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
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