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Finance Manager - Property & Assets Location: Hybrid home working / Didsbury / Manchester Salary: 49,934 increasing to 51,783 after 6 months Full Time / 35 hours per week / Permanent About Us Southway Housing Trust is a committed and forward-thinking community focused housing association dedicated to providing excellent homes and outstanding customer care. With a vision of Thriving Communities, Southway manages over 6,500 homes across Greater Manchester. Southway strives to reduce child poverty, loneliness and isolation and increase employment, social connectedness and pride in neighbourhoods. Our REACH values of Respect, Equity, Ambition, Compassion and Honesty reflect Southway's culture, how we deliver our services, and our relationships with customers, colleagues and partners. Southway values diversity in all aspects of its communities and operations. Candidates / Role An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Finance team for a Finance Manager - Property & Assets to lead Southway Group's financial monitoring of its property and assets programme. This will entail collaborative work with service managers whilst preparing and reporting KPIs to demonstrate performance and driving improvements through internal controls and processes. You will also have: - Advanced accounts and general ledger skills. - Excellent verbal communication skills, able to explain financial information to residents and manage relations with internal customers effectively - Strong excel skills, with a knowledge of a range of functions and their application. Your main responsibilities would include: 1. Lead the development of effective reporting tools and financial data reports for the Property Services and Assets Teams to support the provision of good quality information for decision making, including concise written reports for the Executive and others. 2. Regular reporting of key performance indicators to show performance against targets (operational and financial), trends and any risk to Southway including non-compliance, reduced income/spend levels, loss of grant, ensuring escalation where necessary to develop remedial actions. 3. Contrast the results of stock condition surveys to Business Plan assumptions. Prepare and monitor long term budgets based on data from various sources including programme schedules, survey results and data from housing management system. This should outline any slippage, savings, acceleration and overspends, with corresponding impacts on current and future year budgets. 4. Support preparation of programme returns and grant claims to external partners (identifying works, administration and staffing elements), ensuring all data and explanations are evidenced with colleagues before submission. 5. Prepare fixed asset register and general ledger entries using data from the stock investment programme to ensure the accountancy for the capital works costs and related grant are correctly identified for individual properties and components. 6. Prepare budgets for Property Services including analysis of different workstreams (and agree recharges between DLO and the client) to ensure value for money is achieved via operational delivery. 7. Ensure the Finance Apprentice (Property & Assets) liaises productively with budget holders to analyse results and consider actions to deliver effective budgetary control. 8. Identify and drive improvements in processes and procedures which impact the financial performance of the repairs and maintenance service. 9. Assist budget holders to operate an effective system of electronic purchase order and invoice authorisation routines, resolving individual users' difficulties. Support budget holders to enable them to navigate through the financial processes, including the NOPO report, to improve data integrity and accurately record costs and grant income to be accrued. 10. Provide information to Finance Operations team supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts, annual statutory accounts and other reports as required (e.g. Funders Report) outlining performance and explanations on variances. Closing Date: Monday 13 October 2025 Interview Date: w/c Monday 20 October 2025 For an informal discussion about this role please contact Bhups Gohil, Assistant Director of Finance . We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from suitably skilled people from all sectors of the community. All applicants who have a disability or are ex armed forces that meet the minimum essential criteria for the post will be invited to interview. If you have a disability or are ex armed forces, please tell us about this on your application form and please let us know about any special arrangements you would like us to make if you are invited in for an interview.

Sewell Wallis is currently working with a global manufacturing group based in Leeds as they look to appoint a Finance Manager due to internal promotion. With the support of a team of five, the successful candidate will take full responsibility for producing monthly management accounts for the UK business. This West Yorkshire business has a great working culture that puts its people first. We are looking for a great manager and mentor who can continue developing the team as they work through their professional studies. What will you be doing? The Finance Manager will lead and support a team of 5 (2 part-time Accounts Payable Clerks, 2 part-time General Finance Assistants, and 1 Finance Apprentice). Oversee core accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, general ledger, and financial analysis. Prepare and post month-end journal entries (prepayments, accruals, revenue adjustments, manufacturing variances). Produce timely and accurate management accounts under the company's reporting deadlines. Maintain and manage the fixed asset register; create internal orders on SAP and ensure compliance with company asset management procedures. Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and quarterly trial balance variance analysis with appropriate follow-up actions. Review and approve payroll and supplier payments, ensuring accuracy and adherence to financial controls. Approve and validate vendor setups and changes in line with internal policies. Support both internal and external financial audits, ensuring timely and accurate responses to auditor requests. Assist with lease reconciliation and ensure accuracy of lease vehicle schedules and coordinate with relevant departments for changes or renewals. Identify and implement improvements to financial systems and processes to enhance efficiency, control, and reporting accuracy. Participate in ad hoc financial projects and initiatives as assigned What skills do we need? CIMA or ACCA qualified (or equivalent). Extensive working knowledge of SAP or a similar ERP system. Previous experience in a manufacturing environment is highly desirable. Demonstrated ability to work to tight, recurring deadlines under pressure. Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, formula-driven reports). Strong communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills. Proven leadership and team management capabilities. What's on offer? Salary of up to 60,000 depending on experience Hybrid working (3 days in the office) 8 % employer pension contribution On-site parking Apply for this role below, or for more information, contact Kayley. To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.