Finance Officer - Income in York

10 Months Fixed Term Contract, Full Time (35 hours per week)

About the role

Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust are now searching for a Finance Income Officer to provide a value-added end to end income collection and debt management service for a range of JRHT sites & services with a key focus on site team revenue and other income collection. You will process ledger transactions including cash handling and banking at multiple sites, raising sales invoices/credit notes and journals, managing income reconciliation and rents and reconciliations and provide operational support for income collection. You will work closely with relevant colleagues to manage the tenancy management functions on behalf of one residential care home. This involves setting up tenancies on our housing system and facilitating a smooth move in process regarding payments and income collection.

About you

As our Finance Income Officer, we would like you to hold a qualification in accounting/book-keeping or have previous experience of working within a finance environment, able to demonstrate relevant and recent experience of double side finance transactional processing; use of ledgers, controls and apply compliance to transactional processing, preferably in income collection/sales ledger. You will have good knowledge of Finance IT Systems and good operational knowledge of double-sided book-keeping including experience of sales ledger, banking and basic accounting transactions including journals, raising invoices and complex income reconciliations. With excellent levels of accuracy and numeracy and the ability to understand and work on finance data, you will have demonstrable ability to build relationships and engage a wide variety of stakeholders (for example council finance teams, social workers, NHS professionals, commercial customers, residents and internal colleagues). You will have proven experience of acting as first point of contact with relation to customer or resident queries, dealing with complex or sensitive problems including handling disputes, and you will be able to problem-solve complex workloads effectively, creatively and with a flexible approach and demonstrate a solution-based outlook. You will have excellent organisation skills, able to manage time, workload and priorities effectively including task setting up to 6 months in advance and have excellent working knowledge of IT packages with intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook and intermediate level of MS Word to include regular use of mail-merge, advanced formatting and complex formula functions.

Our core priority

JRHT strives to be a housing association that is sustainable and engaging, providing high quality and continuously improving services and decent affordable homes in well managed communities prioritising those in greatest need.

How to apply

To apply, please complete the online application. Closing date for applications is Friday 30th May 2025. Interviews will take place at The Folk Hall, New Earswick week commencing 9th June 2025. Please note that we will be shortlisting and interviewing on an on-going basis and reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received.

Additional Information

We are a values driven organisation and our values drive our behaviours. We are at our best when we are continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference and we hope others will do the same. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace, where all colleagues can be themselves. Whilst most non-resident facing roles may be able to spend some time working remotely, there is an expectation that colleagues will attend the office regularly.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty. As part of our commitment to equity and specifically anti-racism, we operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process. We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.