Location
Farringdon, London (Central London)

Hours
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary
£32,699 - £34,420 per annum

About the Role
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience using rent accounting systems such as Northgate and finance accounting systems like Oracle, or similar software, to join an innovative Finance team as a Finance Assistant. Reporting to the Assistant Income Manager or Senior Income Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring all sources of rental income are accurately recorded on MTVH's finance accounting system, posted promptly and correctly to resident rent accounts in the housing management system, and reconciled with bank statements in a timely manner. This is a 6-month fixed term contract role and is suitable for MTVH's flexible working policy.

What’s in it for you?
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time)
- 2 volunteering days per year to support local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ for an extra day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid working dependent on role and department
- Health cash plan scheme covering everyday healthcare needs, including family members
- Interest free tenancy deposit and season ticket loans
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities via Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform to stay connected
- Career progression support including mentoring, coaching, apprenticeships and career planning
- Employee Assistance Programme supporting colleague wellbeing

About Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing
MTVH is committed to sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices. We value equality, diversity and inclusion, working collaboratively to serve people better every day. As a Disability Confident employer, we foster an environment where employees can be their true selves, challenge non-inclusive behaviours, and support wellbeing. Our employee network groups include Gender, Ethnicity, LGBTQ+, and Disability, creating a strong sense of community and valued voices. Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate reflect our people-focused approach to solving social issues together.

Experience
Experience using rent accounting systems (e.g. Northgate) and finance accounting systems (e.g. Oracle) or similar software is essential. Previous experience handling a high volume of data entry with speed and accuracy is required.

About you
You will have a good standard of numeracy and literacy, be able to plan and organise your own workload to meet targets and deadlines, and be flexible in your approach. You should be a good team player and communicator, able to build strong working relationships with colleagues. A good level of technical competency in coding, posting, and reconciliation is important, along with a good working knowledge of financial IT packages and Excel.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are stated as mandatory for this role, but relevant experience and technical skills are essential.