Finance Analyst
- Employer
- Shelter
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £33,070 pa plus excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 21 Jul 2019
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- Function
- Finance & Legal
- Sector
- Housing & Homelessness
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
We're looking for a full or part-qualified CCAB/CIMA accountant to join our team as a Finance Analyst and provide financial analysis and insight with a focus on supporting our Income Generation directorate.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time.
Our Finance department works as a team of experts to safeguard resources and support decision making across the organisation. We strive to ensure Shelter is financially sustainable in order to achieve our vision of a home for everyone. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
About the Role
This role sits within the Financial Analysis Team which supports the charity through financial reporting, analysis and expert advice, and enables collaboration to support managers in making effective business decisions. Your key focus will be on supporting our Income Generation directorate and will include monitoring financial performance, resolving queries from budget holders and supporting the development of tools and processes to improve financial analysis. It also means producing monthly management accounts, taking the lead on in-month analysis of results and assisting with the production of an annual budget and quarterly forecasts. Developing strong working relationships with budget holders and supporting them to interpret reports, utilise financial analysis and complete budget and forecast submissions, will be key to success in this role.
About you
A full or part-qualified CCAB Accountant, you'll have a proven ability to carry out complex reconciliations and investigate and resolve any differences that arise. Adept at working, and managing relationships, with a variety of stakeholders, you have a customer focused and results driven approach and are ready and willing to challenge the status quo. You'll ideally have a charity sector finance background, or the ability to quickly adapt to the regulations and mechanics involved in charity reporting. Excellent Excel skills are also required, while a working knowledge of Unit 4 Business World would be useful.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, childcare vouchers, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
Apply to be part of our finance team and be the change you want to see in society.
Shelter is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of clients, in particular children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Company
The housing crisis is now a national emergency.
Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.
Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.
Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.
We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.
In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.
We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.
Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.
In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.
For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.
We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.
This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.
Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.
Polly Neate, Chief Executive
Helen Baker, Chair
- Website
- http://www.shelter.org.uk/jobs
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