Financial Analyst - Service Charge

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing. We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes. If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

The role

Orbit are delighted to be recruiting for a Service Charge Analyst to join us in this brand new role. In this role, the Service Charge Analyst will provide support to the Finance Manager and operational business units to deliver accurate financial information and meaningful insight including actuals, budget variances, budget setting and forecasting, with a key focus on estate services and estate services DLO.

Key to this role, you will harness your stakeholder management skills to build lasting relationships with internal stakeholders and partners. This team plays a vital role in working with the customer and the business, so a professional with stellar communication skills and a natural creative approach to problem solving will flourish in this newly created finance role. This role is part of Finance where you'll help us to invest more back into communities and design for strength. The team are currently working roughly once per week on-site from our Coventry office (subject to business need).

What you'll achieve

• Creation of accurate information on the financial ledgers for example preparing and posting journals, reconciling accounts, and analysing information.
• Overseeing and taking accountability for the integrity of balance sheet accounts (e.g. analysing and clearing suspense accounts, reconciling, and verifying balance sheet accounts).
• Analysing, checking, transforming data to/from stakeholders to create budgets and deliver insightful monitoring reports.
• To support the Finance Manager with the preparation of financial forecasts, taking accountability on key service charge expense categories.
• Creating strong relationships with stakeholders including the ability to influence and gain buy in from internal customers, ensuring an understanding of their needs, their pressures and their business to enable sustained financial and operational business improvements.
• Proactively seek out other views and methods to resolve problems, improve service charge delivery and identify and develop and deliver on key areas for process improvement.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Part Qualified (CIMA / CIPFA / ICAEW).
• Appropriate experience in a similar finance role.
• Appropriate working knowledge of Service Charge operations & regulations with relevant experience.
• Appropriate proven experience of using accounting systems and software, specifically advanced user of Microsoft Excel.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense. Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us:

• A rewarding experience that works for you. We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
• A place to progress. From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.
• For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.
• A purpose to feel proud of. We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people. Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair: Online application, Interview(s), Decision and offer. We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.