Finance Administrator at Black Country Housing, Rowley Regis

Finance Administrator

Fixed-Term Contract - 6 Months (35 hours per week)

Are you an organised and detail-focused finance professional who enjoys problem-solving and delivering excellent customer service? We're looking for a Finance Administrator to join our Finance Team and play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of our financial processes.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with finance administration experience who is looking to further develop their skills within a busy and supportive team. You'll work closely with colleagues across the organisation, taking ownership of financial queries, maintaining accurate records, and helping ensure our financial transactions are processed efficiently and accurately.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll support a wide range of finance activities, including:

• Managing and responding to finance queries through the team mailbox.
• Processing purchase, sales and rent ledger transactions.
• Maintaining supplier accounts and processing invoices and payments.
• Supporting day-to-day banking activities and cashflow monitoring.
• Completing ledger and supplier reconciliations
• Maintaining accurate financial records and supporting data analysis.
• Assisting with period-end, year-end and audit activities.
• Supporting credit control activities, including issuing statements and following up outstanding balances.
• Building positive working relationships with colleagues, suppliers and customers.
• Providing general administrative support to the wider Finance Team.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in a finance administration role within a busy finance environment.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy when processing financial data.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word and SharePoint.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate and resolve financial queries.
• The confidence to communicate professionally with colleagues, customers, suppliers and external partners.
• The ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
• A proactive approach, taking ownership of tasks and seeing them through to completion.

Desirable

• AAT qualification or working towards one.
• Experience of working with Civica Financials would be advantageous; however, training can be provided for the right candidate.
• Knowledge of finance policies, procedures or social housing finance.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a genuine interest in finance and enjoys working with numbers.
• Is enthusiastic about learning and developing new skills.
• Takes pride in delivering a high-quality service.
• Builds positive working relationships with others.
• Demonstrates reliability, accountability and a positive attitude.
• Shares our commitment to our values and making a difference through excellent teamwork.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the opportunity to gain exposure across multiple areas of finance, develop your technical and analytical skills, and work within a collaborative team where your contribution will be valued from day one. Whether you're looking to build on your existing finance experience or broaden your knowledge within a varied finance role, we'd love to hear from you.

Our rewards

We offer a strong and thoughtful total reward package, including:

• Competitive pay, externally benchmarked
• Flexible pension scheme with up to 7% employer contribution
• 28 days annual leave, plus an extra day at Christmas
• Option to buy or sell up to one week’s leave each year
• Hybrid and agile working arrangements
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity and paternity pay
• Health cash plan and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Funded professional qualifications, membership fees and leadership development
• Wellbeing days, volunteering time and a wide range of colleague recognition schemes

Applications close on Monday 12th October with interviews being held on the week commencing 19th October

As a Disability Confident Employer, we continuously strive to create a more inclusive workplace. We are proud to promote equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds, including those of different ages, disabilities, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and marital statuses. Reasonable adjustments will be made available if required during the interview process. 

If you have any questions about this vacancy, or require any reasonable adjustments to support your application, please get in touch with our people team via (url removed) who will be happy to assist.