City: WEMBLEY, LONDON Supporting the HRA Senior Finance Analyst and contributing towards preparation of the HRA annual statement of accounts and notes and dealing with subsequent audit queries. Carrying out various checks and reconciliations, such as bank and balance sheet reconciliations, to ensure that all balances are intact. Supporting the service with annual housing rent setting and tenants'' service charge reviews. Contributing towards the annual update of the HRA Business Plan and its regular monitoring. Supporting the preparation of HRA budgets. Assisting with collating financial data for various statutory housing returns (LAHS/LADR/RO/RA) and the annual core benchmarking exercise. Helping to ensure that the budget monitoring position is understood and mitigating corrective actions are taken where an overspend is projected. Liaising and building relationship with external parties and partners Key Responsibilities: Providing financial support to budget managers, presenting information on various financial matters Supporting the monthly budget monitoring and financial forecasting, including variance analysis Assisting in the submission of and understanding of various statutory and benchmarking returns Reviewing benchmarking information and supporting the service with identifying action plans for efficiencies and savings Supporting the HRA Senior Finance Analyst with budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and ..... full job details .....