Are you looking to start or grow your career in finance? Join our Finance Service Charge team and you’ll learn how we deliver an accurate, reliable service for our customers and colleagues. This is a great opportunity to build practical experience, develop your confidence and make a real contribution from day one.
We’ll support you with a structured development pathway, giving you the knowledge and skills to provide effective cover across key activities when demand increases. As your experience grows, you’ll gain a broader understanding of service charge finance and prepare for future progression within the team.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll work alongside our Finance Assistants to learn key processes and help provide cover during busy periods. By shadowing Finance Officers, you’ll build an understanding of the end-to-end service charge process and how the team works together to deliver a dependable service.
You’ll maintain property charge data in our Housing Management System, process journals and help review scheme costs in the Finance System. You’ll also process management company documentation accurately and on time, code invoices in line with our financial procedures, and learn scheduled rota-based tasks.
You’ll be ready to support the wider team with administrative and operational work when needed, as well as other duties that are appropriate to the role and level of responsibility. We’re one team, so you’ll share what you learn, ask questions and take ownership of delivering work to a high standard.
You'll be working from our Eastleigh office a minimum of three days per week to connect and collaborate with colleagues and the other two days can be worked from at a place of your choosing whether that's at another of our offices, a cafe or at home.
What we’re looking for
You’ll have basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, and you’ll be comfortable using your own initiative. Clear written and verbal communication is important, along with a commitment to excellent customer service. Just as importantly, you’ll bring a positive approach and show our values and behaviours in the way you work: staying curious, working together, owning your contribution openly, embracing opportunities to improve and looking for ways to make a difference.
Why join us?
At Abri, every role has the power to make a difference. You’ll join a supportive team where you can learn, grow and build a rewarding career while helping us deliver the reliable services our customers depend on. If you’re organised, eager to develop and ready to achieve together, this could be the start of something brilliant. Bring your curiosity, your commitment and your ambition — apply today and help us make a difference for our customers and communities.
We’ll review and interview suitable candidates as they apply. If we receive enough applications, we'll close the advert early so be sure to apply today so you don’t miss out!
Who we are
Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage more than 58,000 homes and various community assets, serving around 113,000 customers across the South of England.
We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?
We’re investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.
- We’re delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it’s needed most
- We’re investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone
As we grow, we’re re-establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with our operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.
More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at www.abri.co.uk.
What you can expect
What you can expect
28 days holiday + the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10%
Money off tons of high street and online retailers
Life assurance of 5x your annual salary
Generous parental and family leave
Health and wellbeing packages
Flexible working
Free eye tests
Cycle to Work scheme
About you
We’ve all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It’s these shared values that bring us together as one team.
Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.
We also expect our colleagues to share Abri’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you’re on to a winner and we’d love to hear from you!
Be yourself
We’re committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We welcome and respect the individual differences, life experiences and knowledge that all our colleagues bring into the workplace, and we value their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.
Customer Positive
We welcome applications from Abri customers and we provide an opportunity for applicants to let us know if they are a customer as part of the application process. When customers meet the essential criteria of the role, we will commit to interview at least two customers as part of our Customer Positive scheme.
Flexible working
We recognise the benefits flexible working can bring and we aim to support colleagues who need to work flexibly wherever we can, provided the needs of both Abri and the colleague can be met. Please feel free to let us know about any flexibility you might need when applying for this role. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to consider it fully.
To our agency friends
We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in-house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We’re not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you’d like to be considered at a future date please don’t hesitate to register on our procurement portal.
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Finance Trainee - Service Charges in Eastleigh employer: Abri
At Abri, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer dedicated to creating safer homes and fostering a supportive work environment. Our commitment to employee development is evident through our focus on mentoring and training future talent, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to grow and thrive. With a generous benefits package, flexible working options, and a strong emphasis on community engagement, joining our Safer Homes team means making a meaningful impact while enjoying a fulfilling career.
