Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant

Fairlie House, Erdington, Birmingham

£28,068.34 per annum

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Closing date: 03/02/2026

The purpose of the role is to maintain key financial support across Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Cashbook Management, and Rent Income Allocations. You will maintain strong financial controls alongside Finance Colleagues and help deliver financial resources across the team

• Assist in delivering accounting functions in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Rent Income and Bank and any other adhoc duties
• Maintaining robust financial processes, ensuring a strong audit trail for all transactions
• Process transactions within agreed time scales
• Working to be flexible to meet all deadlines
• Providing cover during other colleague absence where necessary
• Working with and creating a culture of delivery and process improvement
• Ensure accuracy in processing of transactional data
• Ensure good quality process notes for all processes
• Assist in year‑end audit work.
• Responsible for working within appropriate policies in areas of responsibility, in line with current legislation and best practice
• Ensure efficient and effective filing and information systems
• To work within agreed set Service Level Agreements
• Contribute to the continual improvement and efficiency, within Finance and the business
• Deal with queries effectively, liaising with outside agencies and colleagues

• Experience of working in finance preferably in Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger
• Experience of working with finance systems.
• Working knowledge of maintaining financial controls and adhering to procurement policies and procedures
• Understand double entry to ensure transactions are posted correctly across multiple systems
• Good knowledge of Excel and other MS packages
• Exceptional organisation and communication skills including verbal, non‑verbal and written.
• Strong numerical, analytical, and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail
• Highly organised, supportive, collaborative and able to problem solve
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to motivate self and contribute as a team player.
• Emotionally intelligent with the ability to build and maintain relationships across a diverse, geographically dispersed workforce
• To ensure adherence to finance policies across the business.
• Strong people skills to enable effective liaison with internal and external clients

This is not just a ‘job’ this is the feeling of knowing that you are part of something bigger and being able to go home each day with job satisfaction and pride in what is achieved by Trident Group every day.

Our purpose is putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide. To deliver against our purpose we will be:

• Trustworthy
• Collaborative
• Accountable
• People Focused
• Caring in all we do

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• A day off for your birthday
• 4 days off when you move home
• Life assurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance programme & wellbeing programme
• Flexible Working options
• Learning & Development opportunities

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovationfor up to8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than
650 staff, works with volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a trauma informed organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• at least one activity that will make a difference…