The vacancy Your typical day could start with reviewing which journals need to be posted depending on the time in the month and reviewing budget holder and manager requests which have come in. These could include using Q&A to post journals into SUN or run reports on projects. Then you might be picking up audit queries, forecast/budget inputs, balance sheet reconciliations, before moving onto improvement projects such as automating reporting, process improvements to correct and align accounting, save resource time or money. As a Finance Analyst you'll be responsible for ensuring accuracy in our accounts and providing useful management information to enable decision making on a timely basis. With a particular focus on efficiency and ensuring accounting standards are met, you'll actively be working with finance teams across Peabody in a matrix organisation to ensure data and process flow and a holistic view of data, telling the full picture of the effect on the business. You're a people person who likes to get things done correctly and quickly working methodically. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with other teams, and you're first rate at working as a team player and building relationships to enable you to keep to deadlines and find solutions to issues and go above and beyond when the team need you. You'll need to be in the office for 1 days per week and for ad hoc team meetings/away days and the remaining time you'll be able to work remotely. Your role covers all aspects of accounting and reporting including budget inputting and analysis of variances. If you're creative in your problem-solving, energised by supporting your customers and team, we want to hear from you. To be successful in this role, you're: a methodical worker, used to working in a busy and high-pressure environment. resilient with a positive, flexible, compassionate and can-do approach. organised with the ability to self-manage a diverse and varied caseload, prioritising work effectively. experienced with supporting a variety of operational teams. Housing Association is a benefit. working towards a recognised accounting qualification or fully qualified. Here are just a few of the benefits of working at Peabody: 30 days' annual holiday, plus bank holidays two additional paid volunteering days each year flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal 4 x salary life assurance up to 10% pension contribution Are you ready to apply? Please click on the 'Apply Now' button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role. If you have any questions about this role, please email Talent Specialist, Tanisha Johnson at [email protected] We may close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received. Interviews will be taking place week commencing week commencing 2 September 2024 PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.