Finance Assistant

Location: Support Office (Alcester)

Since 1989, we’ve supported adults of all ages to maintain their independence and stay in the place they know and love. Because, life is better at home.

Helping Hands is the nation’s most widely rated home care provider and the only one to be endorsed as a Centre of Excellence by Skills for Care. We have over 150 branches across England and Wales as well as our Support Office in Alcester, Warwickshire. We’re now looking for a Finance Assistant to join our team in Alcester.

In this role you’ll work closely with our Group Cost Accountant to be responsible for all purchase ledger transactions, to include invoice processing, account reconciliations, supplier account maintenance, weekly payment runs and ad-hoc payments.

Main Responsibilities

• Process employee and corporate credit card expenses, ensuring group policies are adhered to, with exception reporting produced on instances of non-compliance.
• Maintain users of corporate credit cards and corporate travel booking system.
• Arrange company vehicle servicing and maintenance as required.
• Work closely with the management accountants and property team to ensure all property portfolio costs are captured.
• Assist the Group Cost Accountant and wider accounts team with ad-hoc projects as required.

About You

To be successful in this role you’ll need to have previous experience of working in a similar role. We’re looking for someone who is either working towards a finance qualification or would be willing to start one soon. The successful applicant will also need to have strong excel skills and be experienced with pivot tables, lookup formulas and data manipulation.

Benefits

• Career progression opportunities
• Hybrid working, with 3 days based at our support office in Alcester
• 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 2 years of service
• Blue Light Card offering discounts from business and services
• Access to our employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme

Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce as we believe this develops a comfortable working environment for all our staff. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.