Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for an experienced Finance Administrator to work with a Nottingham-based Housing Association on a temporary basis. This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week (Mon – Fri).

Main Duties:

• Maintain and administer all processes and systems in relation to purchase and nominal ledgers, rent account postings, journal records (including in the repairs system where appropriate); ensuring invoices and receipts are processed efficiently; supplier, customer and rent statements are reconciled; liaising with suppliers where required.
• Run weekly interfaces from open housing to open accounts and manage rents email; ensuring all rent income postings are logged to the correct companies and codes within open accounts; chasing any missing codes for posting and checking all refunds to rent accounts before forwarding for payment.
• Maintain and reconcile suspense account, cash in transit account and related spreadsheets; ensuring all unallocated rent payments are allocated to the correct rent accounts.
• Prepare and process relevant system entries e.g. invoicing and payments, general ledger journals, sales, purchase and nominal ledger systems.
• Direct and redirect all non-purchase order invoices to relevant requesters and approvers on new system.
• Extract and analyse data from financial systems e.g. VAT/CIS analysing returns data on a monthly basis and compiling the relevant information for completion and submission of the VAT/CIS returns by the appropriate deadline.
• Assist in the production of statutory and other financial accounts and reports; assisting the internal and external auditors as required.
• Process monthly unapproved invoice report and invoices; checking the invoices for signatures and purchase orders re data integrity; ensuring all appropriately authorised returns are processed in a timely manner.
• Deal with enquiries on all aspects of the role’s and team’s work within agreed time limit; building and maintaining good working relationships with internal and external customers.

Essential Criteria:

• General working knowledge of financial budgetary controls
• Financial systems knowledge e.g. purchase ledger and/or sales ledger.
• GCSE maths level 4 (C or above) or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of working in a financial role dealing with income and expenditure.
• Experience of applying financial rules and procedures.
• Experience of working with computerised systems
• Experience of using Microsoft Excel and other related applications to retrieve and manipulate data e.g. use of pivot tables, VLookups.
• Ability to work to a high degree of accuracy.

If this role is of interest to you, please apply with your up-to-date CV.