Property Finance Manager

BARNARDO'S; Essex; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization in Essex is seeking a Property Finance Manager to oversee financial processes and lead a team. The role involves collaboration across functions and driving service excellence. Ideal candidates should have strong finance operations experience and team management skills. Opportunities for professional growth and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Annual Leave entitlement

Flexible working arrangements

Group Personal Pension with matched contributions

Death in service cover

Cycle2work scheme

Free access to employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Experience in finance operations or shared service environments.
• Strong understanding of transactional finance activities.
• Proven ability to manage and develop teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Property Finance Administrators.
• Oversee end-to-end property finance processes.
• Collaborate with colleagues across departments.
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners.
• Drive continuous improvement and service excellence.

Skills

Finance operations experience

Team management

Stakeholder engagement

ERP and Excel skills

Job description

Overview

Property Finance Manager - Join Barnardo's Finance Operations Team.

Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for property operations and service improvement?

In this role, you will join our fast paced Finance Operations team as our Property Finance Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Property Finance Administrators
• Oversee end-to-end property finance processes, including:
• Rental income and payments
• Utilities, service charges, and rates
• Supplier billing and invoice consolidation
• Journal entries and master data management
• Collaborate with colleagues across Property, Finance, Retail, and Children's Services
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners such as landlords, managing agents, and auditors
• Drive continuous improvement and service excellence
• Identify opportunities to streamline systems and processes
• Support the Head of Finance Operations and Manager - Finance Processing and Controls in embedding a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and innovation

You'll bring

• Experience in finance operations or shared service environments
• Strong understanding of transactional finance activities
• Proven ability to manage and develop teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
• Strong ERP and Excel skills and Accounting knowledge
• 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 values. 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 People & Culture 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.

• 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.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• 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
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.