Financial Analyst
Role Overview
Join PA Housing’s Resources team on a six-month fixed-term contract to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting.
Initially focus on Repairs supplier invoices and allocating expenditure to the correct housing scheme and tenure; later support broader expenditure analysis and year-end reporting.
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Role overview
Join PA Housing’s Resources team on a six-month fixed-term contract to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting.
Initially focus on Repairs supplier invoices and allocating expenditure to the correct housing scheme and tenure; later support broader expenditure analysis and year-end reporting.
What you’ll do
- Analyse supplier invoices and records, allocate expenditure and document the evidence, rationale and assumptions.
- Prepare allocation schedules and identify scheme or tenure information missing from purchase orders.
- Reconcile allocations to the general ledger and validate them against housing, property, repairs, asset and supplier data.
- Investigate exceptions, incomplete records, unusual trends and data quality issues; escalate significant uncertainties.
- Maintain an audit trail of source information, methods, assumptions, reconciliations and changes.
- Collaborate across Finance and operational teams, seeking information from budget holders, colleagues and suppliers.
- Produce analysis, progress updates and findings for year-end delivery; recommend process and reporting improvements.
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in finance analysis, project accounting, financial reporting or management accounting.
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification is welcomed, or equivalent experience.
- Experience analysing high volumes of invoices, transactions and complex financial datasets.
- Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, Power Query, lookups and reconciliations.
- Experience with cost allocation where source information is incomplete.
- Strong investigation, attention to detail, communication and collaboration skills.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid working, with approximately two to three office days per week once settled; arrangements vary with meeting cycles and board activity.
- An optional nine-day fortnight scheme may be available where suitable.
Benefits
- Benefits include discounts, health cash plans, annual leave with an option to buy more, flexible bank holidays and a car leasing scheme.
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