One Housing Group Hiring for Senior Rent Officer Job at London, England Full Time

We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Finance team is friendly, knowledgeable and we love what we do. We are proud of our expertise and passionate about the high-quality, service we deliver to all of our customers and stakeholders.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-

profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Join our Finance team as a Senior Rents Officer

Our Finance team play an important role in helping us to achieve our vision by supporting colleagues across the organisation to achieve the best value for money, pay for goods and services and understand complex financial information. Our finance specialists work across a number of teams including Corporate Finance, Financial Management and Procurement. Working collaboratively with colleagues we prize our accountability, empathy and a genuine desire to be helpful and informative.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Senior Rents Officer. Your responsibilities will

include:

• Maintain accuracy of the transaction data within the Housing Management system (UH), through the processing of payments, adjustments and rent debit by the Finance Officers – Rents.

• Taking preventative steps to minimise the number of items in rent suspense; maintaining breakdowns of transactions and taking action to ensure items are cleared on a weekly basis

• Liaise with internal and external parties to ensure that appropriate documentation to enable processing is received in an efficient and timely manner

• Bad Debt Provision calculation and journal

• Respond promptly to escalated queries from internal and external parties.

• Reconciling the Sponsors Accounts

• Various balance sheet and system control account reconciliations

• HB Overpayments

• Compile reports for aspects of rent accounting, working with colleagues to develop accurate KPl’s (Key Performance Indicators).

• Any other duties and adhoc requests as requested by the Rent Finance Manager or Head of Transactions

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly. The successful candidate will:

• IT skills (word, excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Ability to interrogate, vLookup, Pivot, extract data and analyse/reconcile.

• Written and verbal communication skills.

• Have an ability to deal with external auditors and staff at management level

• Needs to be very organised with the ability to plan & prioritise work against challenging period end timetables and immovable deadlines of the finance department

• Proactively work with and communicate with other managers and departments

• Ability to design cross checks to ensure data integrity and to analyse and interpret financial and statistical information

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and to challenge and validate transactional detail

• Significant experience in a similar role in a busy working environment (Essential)

The offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

Salary: £30 -£32,000

Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all

colleagues

Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year. [not for statutory employees]

Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.

Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s

healthcare.

Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob

Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.

We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family

24/7.

Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.

Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

about us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.

Apply today for a fulfilling career in our Customer Services team.

Job Reference: OHG01706