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The Association is recruiting for the following post;
Finance Assistant - permanent, full time position
EVH Grade 6, PA 17-20 Salary: £28,538 - £31,198
About us
Paisley HA is an established registered social landlord, with charitable status, which provides good quality, affordable homes for rent and excellent customer service. Paisley HA has over 1,200 rented units and 280 factored properties, factored via the subsidiary Paisley South Property Services. The Finance Department is responsible for processing approximately £13m of income and expenditure annually, represented by in excess of 30,000 transactions each year.
Job Offer
The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary in a permanent full time role. The Association offers a wide range of employee benefits and provide a friendly and rewarding working atmosphere.
Job Description
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to join our small finance team as a Finance Assistant, based at our new office in the centre of Paisley. The role involves supporting the Senior Finance Officer to provide the senior management team with the financial advice and information they need to assist in their successful delivery of our business goals.
Your role will include responsibility for the review & preparation of accurate & timely processing of a variety of financial transactions to the Finance & Housing Management Systems and via excel. This includes the processing of income, journal and payments; processing of all ledgers (purchase ledger, sales ledger and cashbook), insurance claim & petty cash; and analysis of nominal accounts.
Experience
You will have strong communication skills and proven experience of customer-focused delivery within a financial processing environment. You will be approachable and enthusiastic, with very strong people skills. Able to work collaboratively with a wide range of people, you will work both independently and closely within a team. With strong numeracy & IT skills, ideally including advanced expertise in Excel, and strong organisational skills, you will be able to cope with changing priorities, multiple tasks and tight deadlines, while ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
Prior experience in a finance position (minimum 3 years) and accounting software processing experience (minimum 2 years) is also a requirement.
Please contact Sandra Marshall, Corporate Services Officer for an application pack for this post.
Tel: 0141 583 4124 or Email: sandra.marshall@paisleyha.org.uk
Completed applications can either be posted to Paisley Housing Association, 64 Espedair Street, Paisley, PA2 6RW
or e-mailed to sandra.marshall@paisleyha.org.uk
An application pack can also be downloaded below:
| File Description | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Job Description Finance Assistant |  | 172KB |
| PHA Application Guidance Notes | | 70KB |
| Paisley HA Finance Assistant Application Form |  | 119KB |
| PHA Application Equal Opp Info | | 46KB |
| PHA Employee Benefits | | 145KB |
| PHA Annual Report 18.19 | | 256KB |
| PHA Employee Fair Processing Notice | | 241KB |
| Person Specification Finance Assistant | | 11KB |
The closing date for applications is 5pm Tuesday 18th February 2020.
Formal interviews for this post will be held on 04th March 2020.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Lorna Colville, Head of Finance & IT (lorna.colville@paisleyha.org.uk , 0141 583 4105).
