Job Title: Senior Finance Assistant
Contract type: Fixed Term 6 months
Full time: 35 hours per week.
Salary: £23,874 - £26,386
Working Pattern: Hybrid
Location: Liverpool

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Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.

The difference you’ll make

In this role Carry out a range of complex, non-standard financial activities to support the Financial Accounting Team, including account reconciliations, preparation, and inputting of journals for the Group, all intercompany reconciliations and the Group’s component and capital finance accounting. Provide support to the Finance Processing teams, including quality checking standard financial transactions. you will also assist in preparing the subsidiary and Group VAT Returns, ensuring VAT is accounted for in accordance with HMRC guidelines.

So, who are you

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, showing the ability to meet the needs of a varied customer base, Ideally in this role you should have sound working knowledge of financial controls, a lthough not essential, an AAT qualification or equivalent would be an advantage, for further info about this role please find the attached job description.

Enjoy the rewards

Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holidays plus bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working, and the chance to learn valuable new skills. We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development, and technology.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work.

Role Profile

Carry out a range of complex, non-standard financial activities to support the Financial Accounting Team, including account reconciliations, preparation, and inputting of journals for the Group, all intercompany reconciliations and the Group’s component and capital finance accounting. Provide support to the Finance Processing teams, including quality checking standard financial transactions.

• Carry out complex, non-standard financial activity including account reconciliations, preparation and input of journals, reconciliation of balance sheets and fixed asset registers for the Group and small subsidiary companies and monitoring third party accounts in line with financial controls and Group procedures.

• Assist in preparing the subsidiary and Group VAT Returns, ensuring VAT is accounted for in accordance with HMRC guidelines.

• Prepare the Group’s CIS Submissions.

• Prepare year-end financial statements for subsidiaries including audit schedules and working papers.

• Maintain the Group’s fixed asset registers ensuring the Group capitalisation policy is adhered to. Prepare component accounting schedules ensuring that depreciation, amortisation and asset disposals are correctly accounted for.
• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts ensuring correct coding and supporting documentation is available.
• Provide support to the Finance Processing teams as subject matter experts for balance sheet transactions.

• Reconcile inter-company accounts for the Group, prepare journals and raise recharge journals and cash transfers.

• Maintain and reconcile client money bank accounts.

• Reconcile the Group’s payroll and pension balance sheet accounts.

• Account for the group’s property sales and disposals program which accounts for £30 million disposal costs of sales annually; including First Tranche, Stair casing’s, Right to Acquire, Right to Buy, Voluntary Right to Buy, Land sales, Homebuy and stock transfers

• Responsible for the HCA reporting requirements, including the generation of recycled capital grant funding ensuring that grant funding is monitored and regulations are adhered to.

• Provide support to the Finance Processing teams, acting as the financial Centre of expertise, including quality checking standard financial transactions.
• Provide clear, supportive, and accurate advice, guidance and training to customers and colleagues as required, on Group financial policies and procedures.

• Develop effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate, to resolve issues and queries, escalating for line management intervention as required to ensure we deliver an excellent service.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures.

• Undertake personal development and training as necessary to keep up to date with legal, political, financial, and other developments in the fields of housing and customer service

• Ensure that all data protection requirements are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures, and statutory requirements.
• Ensure that health & safety requirements are met in accordance with Riverside’s policy and procedures and statutory requirements.

• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.

Essential

• Advanced user of MS Excel
• Sound working knowledge of financial controls.
• Customer focused with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, showing the ability to meet the needs of a varied customer base.
• Results focused with the ability to take ownership of tasks.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure, deliver to strict deadlines and manage conflicting priorities.
• Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements
• Working towards AAT qualification or equivalent

Desirable

• AAT qualification or equivalent.
• Experience of working in a housing environment