Rent Setting Team Leader

We are currently partnering with a leading social housing provider based in Manchester, who are recruiting for a Rent Setting Team Leader to join their team on a temporary basis until October.

Our client is proud to be recognised as one of the largest registered providers of social housing based in the North West of England.

This is a full-time position with an hourly rate of £22.97 per hour PAYE. The position is due to start as soon as possible.

Duties will include (but are not limited to):

• Leading the rents team to deliver agreed performance targets; ensuring the team is appropriately skilled to deliver objectives
• Ensuring that rent setting is undertaken in line with the latest regulatory and statutory guidance
• Leading the transformation of the rent service to ensure ongoing efficiency, best practice and service excellence; building and developing processes to deliver efficiencies, improvements and value for money
• Making best use of current systems by being proactive in exploring new system developments and exploiting current functionality; evaluating processes and procedures to look for potential to create efficiencies, streamline and improve the service offering
• Leading the implementation of rent and service charge modules and wider accounting functionality; ensuring clear communication between the project group and the Finance Leadership Team to support effective decision making throughout the project
• Providing an effective and comprehensive rent service to the Group to support operational teams and Business Plan objectives; ensuring that rent transactions are posted accurately and in a timely manner
• Managing and reconciling the data that interfaces between the housing and financial systems to agreed deadlines
• Ensuring rent accounting processes are followed in line with procedure and to strict deadlines
• Leading the Annual Rent review processes ahead of review by the Rent Manager
• Overseeing the process for secure tenancies rent setting and the submission to the appropriate Rent Officer Services

Experience required:

• Experience with rent setting within a social housing setting
• Experience with supporting system implementations
• Experience of staff management and development

Skills, knowledge and expertise required:

• Intermediate Excel capabilities (VLOOKUPS & pivot tables)

Rewards and Benefits:

• Hybrid working (3 days WFH)

Working hours:

• 40 hours per week
• Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm

Please note that you require recent experience to apply for this role.

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

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