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Finance Business Partner
- Posted 08 July 2019
- Salary £48000 - £50000 per annum
- Location
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Accounting & Finance
- ReferenceAF - FBP - 2970_1562578237
- Contact NameAbigail Furlong
Job description
FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER - CUSTOMER RELATIONS
ROLE
- Work with the customer relations directorate to provide effective financial planning, reporting and analysis to support our decision making.
- Ensure the organisation has accurate and timely financial information about its rents, service charges and other income for tenants and leaseholders (including shared owners).
- Maintain and improve elements of our finance systems and housing management system as required to ensure accurate and useful information is provided in a timely and efficient manner.
- Supervise rent and service charge accounting
- Supervise and perform rent account reconciliations and other controls in Northgate
- Manage interfaces between Northgate and other systems
- Support the customer relations team in financial planning/budgeting/ forecasting
- Support the customer relations team in monitoring and managing in-year income and spend including causal analysis and actions to be taken
- Supervise and prepare balance sheet reconciliations including prepayments/accruals for customer relations income & cost centres
- Provide reporting services from Northgate to meet internal analysis and external reporting requirements
- Liaise with key external groups e.g. Housing Welfare Reform Group and Northgate User Group
- Supervise the reconciliation of payments received
- Prepare allocated elements of the annual report and financial accounts
- Support the design and implementation of strategic improvement projects across the organisation
- Ensure the organisation's financial regulations are complied with
- Undertake such other work as determined by the organisation as being compatible with the responsibility levels of the post. This will include ad-hoc support for other colleagues within the finance and procurement team
TEAM
- Finance officer (rents)
- Finance officer (service charges)
SKILLSET
- Experience of preparing financial plans, reports and analysis
- Experience of leading teams
- Experience of working at all levels across organisations
- Experience of working in social housing or businesses with one of more similarities (e.g. physical asset-based, property development, property maintenance, regulated, charitable etc)
- Excellent verbal, written and numerical communication skills
- Strong digital skills, including experience of specialist finance systems and MS Office
- High levels of attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Approachable, friendly and with a commitment to delivering a high-quality experience for customers and colleagues
- Flexible and willing to adapt to change
QUALIFICATIONS
- CCAB qualified accountant
- Driving license with own transport preferred