Rents Finance Manager

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 Rents Finance Manager

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 Rent Finance Manager in Camden. This role will have hybrid working. Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead, motivate and manage the rent accounting team, ensuring objectives and aims are clear and concise and all targets are specific, achievable, well communicated and monitored.
• Ensuring all rent adjustments are entered on the ledger accurately and timely.
• Ensuring all rent receipts are entered on ledger.
• Ensuring processing of all period charges on ledger.
• Respond to internal and external queries on rent payments and receipts.
• Banking of all cheque payments relating to rents is made in a timely manner.
• Production of rent ledger reports and monitors in conjunction with Head of Transactional Services
• Regularly review and control the Group rent suspense account, liaising with other staff to resolve problems and queries.
• Assist in the investigation and reporting of rent voids.
• Reconciling rent control account monthly.

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:

• Ability to interrogate, extract data and analyse/reconcile.
• Experience of leading a team
• 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
• Use of sun systems for finance, Housing Database or equivalent systems

The offer

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

• Salary: £37-42,000
• 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.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• 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.