Finance Team Leader

The purpose of the role is to maintain key financial support across Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Cashbook Management, and Rent Income Allocations. You will maintain strong financial controls alongside Finance colleagues and help deliver financial resources across the team. This role involves supporting a range of accounting and finance functions to ensure accurate financial reporting and strong internal controls.

What you'll be doing:

• Assist in delivering accounting functions in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Rent Income and Bank and any other ad hoc duties.
• Maintain robust financial processes, ensuring a strong audit trail for all transactions.
• Process transactions within agreed time scales.
• Work flexibly to meet all deadlines.
• Provide cover during other colleague absence where necessary.
• Work with and create a culture of delivery and process improvement.
• Ensure accuracy in processing of transactional data.
• Ensure good quality process notes for all processes.
• Assist in year‑end audit work.
• Work within appropriate policies, legislation and best practice.
• Maintain efficient filing and information systems.
• Work within agreed Service Level Agreements.
• Participate in performance training and development activities as required.
• Contribute to continual improvement and efficiency within Finance and the business.
• Build, maintain and sustain relationships with key colleagues.
• Deal with queries effectively, liaising with outside agencies and colleagues.
• Build trust within the team, systems and processes.
• Work with the business so they understand and adhere to key processes and timetables.

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport, which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK. As an organisation we do not offer visa sponsorships. Only applicants with existing right to work in the UK will be considered. Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We only consider agency introductions where a signed agreement is in place, and where the agency has been specifically contacted by a member of our People & Culture Team. We do not accept responsibility for any fees related to unsolicited or speculative CV submissions made directly to our employees or outside of the above.

Qualifications:

• Experience of working in Finance preferably in Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Bank.
• Experience of working with finance systems.
• Experience of leading others.
• Working knowledge of maintaining financial controls and adhering to procurement policies and procedures.
• Understand double entry to ensure transactions are posted correctly across multiple systems.
• Good knowledge of Excel and other MS packages.
• Able to demonstrate commitment to our core values.
• Exceptional organisation and communication skills including verbal, nonverbal and written.
• Strong numerical, analytical, and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail.
• Highly organised, supportive, collaborative and able to problem solve.
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to motivate self and contribute as a team player.
• Emotionally intelligent with the ability to build and maintain relationships across a diverse, geographically dispersed workforce.
• Ensure adherence to finance policies across the business.
• Strong people skills for effective liaison with internal and external clients.

Our Purpose:

We are committed to putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide. To deliver against our purpose we will be trustworthy, collaborative, accountable, people‑focused and caring in all we do.

Benefits:

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• A day off for your birthday.
• 4 days off when you move home.
• Life assurance (3 × salary).
• Employee Assistance Programme & wellbeing programme.
• Flexible Working options.
• Learning & Development opportunities.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We celebrate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as a trauma‑informed organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to disabled people, anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long‑term health condition, enabling them to stay in work, and at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.