Finance Officer in Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Location: Kingston Park

Salary: Up to £32,909 per annum

Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 5PM on 31/05/2026

Are you passionate about delivering excellent financial support to both external and internal clients, ensuring financial information is prepared and issued within company requirements? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Officer to join our growing fast-paced finance team based at Kingston Park.

Role Benefits:

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Working from home up to 2 days per week, after 6 months’ probation period
• Health cash plan membership so you can save money by claiming cash back – over £1000 each year - towards essential healthcare such as dental, optical, physio and loads more. We’ll also cover the costs of including any dependent children in the scheme – up to the age of 21 or 24 if in full time education – that you may have.
• Access to savings on gym memberships plus cash back and discounts on purchases from major retailers including supermarkets, travel, cinema and more.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary

About the Finance Officer Role:

This role will involve:

• Preparing annual service charge budgets to agreed timescales
• Preparing annual service charge accounts to agreed timescales
• Issuing service charge and ground rent demands

Your Experience:

Successful candidates will need:

Essential:

• Educated to GCSE standard including English and Maths at a minimum Grade C
• Sound experience of financial management systems
• Experience of providing financial services within a customer focused environment
• Ability to work to a high level of accuracy
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• A working knowledge of financial procedures
• A sound understanding of modern accounting procedures and techniques including Excel.

Desirable:

• Recent experience of working in finance within Property Management
• I.T. skills including word processing and spreadsheets
• Ability to promote and deliver outstanding customer service
• A working knowledge of Direct Debits
• A working knowledge of Qube software
• Knowledge of a similar type and size organisation.

About us:

• With over twenty-five years’ experience in the field, Kingston specialises in leasehold block management as well as residential estate management throughout the North of England.
• We have built a reputation that sets us aside from our competitors, and this is reflected by our dedicated and passionate team. We have an excellent track record of employee development and providing opportunities for progression – we are building Kingston to be a business that people want to be part of.
• Our customers benefit from our commitment to deliver exceptional customer service, and the capabilities of a team with years of property management experience and extensive knowledge of the latest developments in the field.
• We pride ourselves on our transparency and integrity, always aiming to provide a high standard of service that is tailored to suit the individual needs of each development.
• To generate pride in our communities, our profits go back into our not-for-profit parent company Bernicia, to improve and ultimately transform our region.

Interviews will be taking place week commencing 08 June 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised, should we receive a large volume of applications.

The Group is fully committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and we particularly welcome applicants from groups who are currently under represented at Bernicia.