We are Places for People, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.
How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with collaborative, positive and can do people.
So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.
More about your role
If you like variety in your work as well as being part of a busy team, then this could be the perfect role for you. This role will require sharing your time weekly between home and the office based in Preston (Group Support Services) and we operate on a hybrid working model. We promote a flexible work life balance
Please note that this is a fixed term role for 6 months, however there is a possibility that this could be extended / become permanent if the service needs change
Your day-to-day duties will be to provide administrative support dealing with both internal and external queries and processing purchase requisitions and invoices for payment.
You will get the opportunity to grow and develop your administrative skills as you will also get exposure to finance related tasks such as preparing monthly finance journals; bank reconciliations and running key reports. There will be a requirement to work closely with our internal finance team members in other business areas, such as Accounts Payable, Capital Accounts, Tax and Treasury
For more information, please download our job profile available on our website.
More about you
Ideally you will understand some basic accounting processes. You should be computer literate with good knowledge of Microsoft office. Excel skills are essential with the ability to demonstrate effective use of excel.
Customer service and delivery is at the heart of what we do therefore you should have excellent communication skills and an appreciation of the need to continuously improve the services we provide.
An outlook to learn and develop, support others within the team and have a keen interest to work within a finance function
The benefits
Our ambition gives you all the challenges you could wish for. Future opportunities may be available for the right candidate within Places for People, which offer tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.
If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.
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