Rent & Income Finance Officer - 12 month FTC in Manchester

You’ll support the provision of a specialist and comprehensive rent setting and income accounting function to the Great Places Housing Group.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Reviewing and processing all ground demands from freeholders and ensuring prompt payment.
• Calculating and preparing all income related journals (accruals and deferrals) for the Customer Services Directorate.
• Preparing other routine journals ensuring the management accounts accurately report income and bad debt provision and the balance sheets accurately record assets and liabilities for each period.
• Assisting in the annual budget and year end preparations, under the supervision of the Rent and Income Accountant.
• Compiling the 'Other income' annual budget in line with budget holders, gaining approval and following budget setting processes.
• Completing 'Other income' monthly management packs for the business; reviewing variances and resolving issues as required.
• Assisting in the application and processing of Fair rents through the VOA.
• Producing specified balance sheet account reconciliations on a monthly basis and ensuring discrepancies are corrected.
• Processing rent requests from the Development team.
• Preparing Oldham PFI payment weekly ensuring strict timeframes are adhered to, thus avoiding a fine.

What You’ll Need

• Experience of producing third-party accounts, reviewing budgets against actuals, and preparing and posting accounting journals.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, with experience managing and analysing large datasets.
• Competence across the full Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to work accurately and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of numerical accuracy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively liaise with colleagues and stakeholders to gather information, resolve issues and provide support.

What We Need From You

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing.
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places.
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity.
• An ability to work in uncertainty.
• You will be required to attend a number of face-to-face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning; this part of your role is vital and of equal importance as the day-to-day aspects.

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment

• Pension - DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places).
• WPA - Healthcare scheme starts at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available per year (option to increase & add family members).
• Ways of Working - We offer some hybrid and flexible working.
• Annual leave - Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holiday.
• Reward & Recognition - You Count Rewards are individual rewards for going 'above & beyond'.
• Professional fees - The business pays the cost of one professional role related membership fee for each colleague.
• The Market Place - high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more.
• Wage Stream - You can access savings opportunities and early access to wages.
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives - Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing.

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver great services; all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.