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About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that “everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well”; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living
Salary: £29,076 - £30,606
Location: Waterfront House, Beeston
About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that “everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well”; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living
This role
We are recruiting for a Commercial Assistant, to support the Quantity Surveyors with reviewing all applications for payments, valuations and costs associated with the repairs, voids and disrepair works for Metworks.
You will also be expected to provide cost reports to the relevant teams and attend relevant operational or contractor meetings and assist in the development of new ways of delivering the commercial approach to future contract performance and spend to support the contract partnership.
What You'll Need To Succeed
* Track record in providing Commercial or financial Support in including invoice payments and query management
* Able to manage own workload and gather information from various sources to meet a deadline
* An understanding of NHF and other bespoke schedule of rate based contracts is desirable.
* Good planning, budgeting, organizing and prioritization skills. Experience of keeping sound business records.
* Ability to prepare reports, track and manage contractor accounts and queries, maintain records and monitor budget expenditure.
* Able to build and sustain working relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external
* Able to interpret financial and other systems data.
* Good working knowledge of Excel
What You Need To Do Now
If you're interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
* 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
* 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
* An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
* Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
* Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
* Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
* Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
* Cycle2work scheme
* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
* Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
* Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
* Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
* Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
* Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About Us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
* Gender
* Ethnicity
* LGBTQ+
* Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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