Property Finance Manager – Join Barnardo's Finance Operations Team.
Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for property operations and service improvement?
1. Do you enjoy leading teams and developing people?
2. Are you confident managing complex financial processes in a fast-paced environment?
3. Do you thrive on building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders?
If so, Barnardo's have an exciting opportunity to join our fast paced Finance Operations team as our Property Finance Manager and we'd love to hear from you.
In this role, you will:
4. Lead and develop a team of Property Finance Administrators
5. Oversee end-to-end property finance processes, including:
6. Rental income and payments
7. Utilities, service charges, and rates
8. Supplier billing and invoice consolidation
9. Journal entries and master data management
10. Collaborate with colleagues across Property, Finance, Retail, and Children's Services
11. Build and maintain relationships with external partners such as landlords, managing agents, and auditors
12. Drive continuous improvement and service excellence
13. Identify opportunities to streamline systems and processes
14. Support the Head of Finance Operations and Manager – Finance Processing and Controls in embedding a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and innovation
You'll bring:
15. Experience in finance operations or shared service environments
16. Strong understanding of transactional finance activities
17. Proven ability to manage and develop teams
18. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
19. A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
20. Strong ERP and Excel skills and Accounting knowledge
21. Commitment to Barnardo's values and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Code of Conduct
This is more than a finance role, it's an opportunity to make a difference. You'll be part of a team that lives by our six guiding principles:
People Focused | Data Led | Customer Focused | Continuous Improvement | One Stop Shop | Flexible Solutions
We offer a supportive, inclusive environment where your ideas and leadership will help shape the future of our services.
When completing your application, please refer to your skills, knowledge, and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description, and any Additional Information provided. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
22. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
23. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
24. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
25. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
26. Service related sick pay from day 1
27. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
28. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
29. Cycle2work scheme
30. Interest free season ticket loans
31. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
32. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
33. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
34. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
35. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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