What we’re looking for: Do you have experience of working in a finance team, where you have assisted Finance Business Partners or Finance Analysts on month end or management accounts production? Are you an AAT qualified, degree level qualification, or similar experience working towards an accounting qualification? Do you enjoy working with large volumes of data and turning this into meaningful information? Are you someone who uses initiative and is proactive in meeting the needs of your customer including opportunities to help improve processes? If so, this role is perfect for you! Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Finance Assistant – Property Services to join us on a fixed term contract basis. A bit about the role: As a Finance Assistant – Placemaking and Regeneration, you will assist with the preparation of the monthly Management Accounts and KPIs, including insightful commentary to agreed timeframes. Assist in the month end and year end process, ensuring that costs are allocated to the appropriate level so that reporting is relevant and accurate. Where costs are not allocated correctly follow up, understand the issue, and identify a suitable solution which could be training the budget holder. You will continuously review and seek to improve systems and processes to maximise efficiency and keep things as simple and easy for users as possible and always maintaining a positive approach to change. You will be able to see where your inputs fit into the bigger picture and the full I&E and BS outputs. You will adaptable to business changes and assist in onboarding teams under the Placemaking and Regeneration banner from existing teams in the group. You will be confident in communicating and working across a large matrix organisation to obtain information and collaborate. Some of the key results for the role include: Support the Senior Finance Manager, Finance Analysts and Finance business Partner with the annual budget process, inputting into our forecasting system InforBI and reconciling data. Support budget holders to understand their management accounts coding and costs centre and provide training as required including assisting with system changes. Maintaining those system to meet the needs of the budget holder and finance. Collaborating with finance colleagues to improve finance processes. IPOS – Purchase to Pay software user reporting, system maintenance, uploading of annual budgets in SUN systems and end user assistance. Provide a user-friendly, customer-focused and reliable service at all times, creating strong working relationships with internal and external customers and consistently demonstrating a ‘can-do’ attitude. Communicating in a professional manner and seeking assistance when you require it. This role will require a minimum of 1 day working in the Westminster Bridge Road office. With 1 day in a local office in Thamesmead or Charlton. A bit about us: 160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK. The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers. Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach. We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient. We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing. Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody: Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role) Up to 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates Two additional paid volunteering days each year Family friendly policies Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal 4 x Life Assurance Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1 Are you ready to apply? PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer. To be considered for the position of Finance Assistant, 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 need to ask us anything else at all, feel free to drop an email to the Talent Specialist, Victoria Wilson, on [email protected] and one of our team will be in touch. Peabody reserves the right to close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.