Finance Assistant

Annual salary: up to £28,435.05

Finance Assistant

Location: Gloucester

Contract: Permanent / Full time position; Monday - Friday 08:30-17:00

Salary: £28,435, plus great company benefits

Mears is uniquely placed to address the major challenges in the housing and social care industry. If you are a Finance Assistant looking to be part of a growing organisation this opportunity can offer great rewards and opportunity.

Mears is a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in the housing with care market. Mears Group's vision is to make a positive difference to the people we serve by improving homes, improving communities and improving lives.

We do this by developing outstanding partnerships with employees, clients, tenants, customers, their families and the wider community. We are looking for people who can help us deliver on our values, fulfil our future ambitions and their own.

Mears Group is currently searching for a proactive Finance Assistant with a flexible approach to support our business. You will be responsible for the timely and accurate reconciliation of group bank accounts and intercompany accounts, making ad-hoc payments and the reconciliation of a number of control accounts. Working as part of a small dedicated team in Gloucester, with the option of hybrid work once competent with our system and processes.

You will report to the Head of Financial Accounting and, as a team, will help ensure the smooth running of the accounts department, completing tasks accurately and to strict deadlines, providing the business with the highest level of service at all times. Mears Group strives for career progression.

If you are looking to start or continue a finance qualification such as AAT, Mears is well placed to support you whilst you continue to work towards this qualification.

• Reconciling a number of the Group's bank accounts on a daily basis and pro-actively ensuring items arising are dealt with daily; producing the daily cashbook in a timely manner.
• Ensuring expenses and petty cash requests are made in accordance with the Group's expenses policy; processing expenses claims and passing to payroll within deadlines.
• Processing ad-hoc BACS and CHAPS payments in accordance with agreed deadlines.
• Reconciling a number of control accounts, including the payroll and expenses control accounts.
• Ensuring purchase invoice imports are posted accurately in accordance with deadlines.
• Intercompany reconciliations and posting any necessary journals.
• Assisting with journals for the monthly management accounts for the group support functions.
• Providing holiday cover for Finance Assistants working on other Group companies.
• E-mail management across multiple inboxes.

• Educated to GCSE (or equivalent)
• Basic knowledge and understanding of accounting practices
• Experience in a commercial environment
• A great team player and collaborative working
• Problem solver and results oriented
• Good Excel knowledge
• IT literate with confident written communication skills
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team, demonstrates company values with exceptional communication and customer service
• An entry level accounting qualification is beneficial, but not required

• Family friendly policy including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and more
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Sick Pay
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
• Share saver scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (free counselling)
• Wellbeing service with trained mental health and wellbeing advisors
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day (fully paid including lunch)
• Mears Rewards - high street vouchers
• Volunteering Leave to support social value commitments
• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

Note: All roles require entitlement to work in the UK. Mears does not offer visa sponsorship. All roles are subject to DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment.

Apply below or discuss your application further; contact: Joe Monger ()

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and equal opportunities for all. We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and have earned the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award. We endorse the Career Transition Partnership and promote social mobility; optional background information may be shared during application to help improve opportunities for candidates from diverse backgrounds.