Job Description

Finance Assistant - Payables

Permanent, Full-time position (37.5 hours)

Farringdon, London: 31,787 - 33,460

MTVH conducts an annual review of salaries for colleagues. The salary displayed does not reflect any agreements reached during our 2025 review.

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 looking for a full-time Finance Assistant to join our Accounts Payable team, based in Farringdon, London. MTVH implements a Smarter (Hybrid) Working policy which requires 3 days per week on-site.



Your main duties will include:


Ensuring that data is input onto the Purchase and General Ledgers accurately and on a timely basis, ensuring deadlines are met and service standards maintained. Ensuring all departmental records and documents are filed and maintained Answering calls and taking messages for colleagues Evaluate the Accounts payable system and liaise with your line mangers as to improving effectiveness

What you'll need to succeed:

Experience of working in an Accounts Payable or Receivables team Good numeracy skills Strong IT skills An eye for detail Team Player Excellent communication skills and telephone manner An affinity with the work of the social housing and care sector

Key Dates:

Interviews will be scheduled for week commencing 12 May

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.