Finance Officer - Rents
Job Location: Brindley place
Salary: £ 21,783.78
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: 25 hours per week.
About the role
We are looking for a detail-oriented and customer-focused Finance Officer (Rents) to join our Finance team.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in rent setting, housing finance, or income management who enjoys working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
In this role, you`ll play a key part in ensuring accurate rent services are delivered across the organisation, helping maximise income collection while ensuring compliance with housing regulations and legislation.
What you`ll be doing:
- Processing annual rent increases and ensuring rents are charged accurately in line with Local Housing Allowance regulations.
- Calculating annual rental income budgets and supporting financial planning activities.
- Managing rental receipts, banking processes, and daily reconciliations.
- Ensuring service charges and rent charges are legally compliant and correctly applied.
- Investigating and resolving rent-related queries efficiently.
- Working closely with internal departments to support new schemes and services.
- Supporting compliance with relevant legislation including GDPR, Health & Safety, and Leasehold Reform requirements.
About you
- AAT qualified or qualified by experience.
- Experienced in rent setting or housing finance within a complex organisation.
- Knowledgeable about housing sector rent regimes and income/debtor`s processes.
- Highly organised and able to meet deadlines in a busy environment.
- A confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable using Microsoft Office and financial/housing management systems.
- A collaborative team player with a customer-focused mindset.
About us
We are GSA, we provide affordable homes and services that create a foundation from which people in our communities can thrive.
We own and manage 25,000 homes in diverse communities across the West Midlands and Southwest.
Everyone deserves a home, it`s a place from which we build our future, we thrive at home.
We are proud to play an active role in dealing with the consequences of the housing crisis, by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.
Often a home is all someone needs, but when our customers need more, we offer a range of services, including care, money advice and coaching to support them.
We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.
The GSA Way
We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.
A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.
Our five core commitments are:
- We believe our customer is everything
- We are one team
- We are supportive and caring
- We are business-minded for social purpose
- We are curious and ambitious.
You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.
Benefits
In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes:
- 25 days annual holiday entitlement
- A defined contribution pension scheme.
- Trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Two days paid volunteering leave per year
- Buying and selling of annual leave
- Opt-in health cash plan with cover on eye test and glasses, Dental, therapy and much more!
All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy.
GreenSquareAccord are a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the `essential eligibility criteria` for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview.
If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.
