An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Officer to join The Abbeyfield Society and assist with the ongoing effective financial management of the organisations resources. This post holder will work as a Housing Finance Officer for the organisation and would sit within the Retirement Living Finance Team.

The Retirement Living Finance Team provides support, advice and assistance on all areas of finance to a wide range of staff, including directors, senior management and our widespread operational teams based in care homes, independent living, and sheltered housing properties.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Housing Finance Team with experience of working within Finance, ideally in a Housing Environment, to join us and assist in the ongoing financial management of the organisation with the primary focus of the job is to ensure Housing Income is reported accurately and to support with keeping arrears to a minimum. The role will be predominantly home-based, however, would require occasional travel for face to face meetings.

Tasks the role will include, but not limited to, are:

• Supporting the arrears management process by pursuing resident debt and preparing correspondence for Frontline managers.
• Processing of Resident Movement Forms
• Ensuring the accuracy of monthly Direct Debit collections to ensure errors and refunds are kept to a minimum.
• Monthly Income Reconciliations
• Support with Month End Activities
• Support with production of Finance Reports.
• Liaising with Housing Benefit Officers and dealing with queries and challenges in a timely and professional manner.
• Respond to queries from Residents and Next of Kin in a timely and professional manner.
• Ad Hoc Financial Analysis
• Partake in Continuous Improvement projects.
• Supporting the Senior Finance Officers and Finance Business Partner with ad hoc tasks.

The essential skills and experience this role requires are an understanding of accounting principles, previous relevant experience of working as part of a finance team, excellent Excel skills and proficient in Outlook and Word, strong numerical, analytical and interpersonal skills, a strong customer service focus and self motivated with the ability to manage your own workload.

Applications are to be submitted via the Abbeyfield Careers Portal by the 03/11/2022. We reserve the right to close this advertisement down early, if we receive a high volume of suitable candidates.

For further details / informal chat please contact Charlie Culverwell – Finance Business Partner on 07436021527.

Please note that any email correspondence from Abbeyfield may be directed to your junk/spam folder and it is advised these are regularly checked.

Agency applications will not be accepted.