Senior Finance Technician

Senior Finance Technician

Birmingham

£25,787 - £27,430 per annum

Full Time, 37 hours per week 

Monday to Friday – Primarily Office Based

12 Months -Fixed Term Contract, with potential for permanent

Our client is brave, ambitious and honest!

This is a great opportunity for you to join one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers. 

Our client owns and manages 30,000 homes across the West Midlands, including diverse communities from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns; but they provide more than housing – their homes are a foundation for life.

They are proud to be an organisation which deals directly with the consequences of their housing crisis by providing homes for people who can’t access them on the market.

They are a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity. All the money they make goes back into improving their homes and services and building new homes so that they can help more people.

Working for our client not only offers you the chance to work for an award-winning, big-hitting organisation in the West Midlands, it gives you the opportunity to work for an organisation with a heart and a clear social purpose.

It doesn’t matter which function you work in, being part of their team will give you the chance to play your own part in making a very real difference to people’s lives. 

To join them you will have the ability to take ownership and responsibility for delivering a consistently high level of service within your team and across the business as a whole. You’ll be positive, optimistic and solutions-focused in everything you do even in the face of challenges, and you will believe passionately in the social value derived from delivering outstanding services to their customers and colleagues.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join the Transactional Services team. The role is advertised on a 12 month fixed term contract giving someone the opportunity to demonstrate their skills working within a fast paced ‘lean’ environment.

As Senior Technician you will support and assist the Transactional Services Manager in the provision of high quality transactional services to the business. You will have previous purchase ledger experience and will be expected to work to tight deadlines, providing exceptional customer service to both internal and external stakeholders

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordination of the day to day work activities of the Purchase Ledger Team
• Management of the weekly payment run and any ad hoc purchase ledger payments required.
• Daily resolution of complex purchase ledger queries.
• Completion of month end purchase ledger reconciliations and auto accruals process.
• Reporting daily/monthly  KPI’s to management along with comprehensive narrative of the team’s performance
• Providing cover for the Banking Senior Technician during absences
• Clear management of all stakeholder communications including suppliers, budget holders, accountants and intermediaries.
• Escalation and resolution of system, invoice coding and process issues.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Outlook; vlookup and pivot tables essential.
• Ability to work proactively and multi-task, both within the wider finance team and on an individual basis.
• Proven collaborative and team playing capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
• Desirable: AAT qualified/part qualified or equivalent

So, if you think you have the technical know-how and can demonstrate the people skills they’re looking for, they really want to hear from you.

They are committed to diversity and inclusion, encourage flexible working where appropriate and positively welcome applications from everyone.

They are committed to protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights. They adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding and do everything they can to make sure all individuals accessing their services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. They have policies and procedures in place to try to make sure the people they support are protected from harm and as part of their recruitment process they carry out robust safeguarding checks.