Assistant Rent Accountant

Platform Housing Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic housing organization is seeking an Assistant Rent Accountant to join their finance team during a transformative phase. The ideal candidate will focus on accurate property information recording and reporting rent performance. Strong Excel skills and experience in a complex organization are essential. Benefits include generous annual leave, health cash plans, and a robust pension scheme. This role allows for home-based work with occasional travel to offices in Birmingham and Worcester.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Generous family-friendly policies

Medicash membership

Health Cash Plan

Pension scheme

Learning and Development opportunities

Employee reward and recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of accounting in a large and complex organization.
• Familiarity with data reconciliation and analysis tasks.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate recording of property information.
• Report rent performance and complete external regulatory returns.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders on finance matters.

Skills

Rent accounting understanding

Excel proficiency

Data analysis

Customer service management

Education

AAT Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

Cloud technologies

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Are you ready to advance your finance career? Join our team as an Assistant Rent Accountant

We are currently looking for an experienced finance professional to join our dynamic Rent Accounting team on a permanent basis. This is the perfect time to join us on our transformation journey to provide a truly modern finance function. There is a supportive culture within the team providing you with a strong platform to gain experience and exposure to Rent Accounting.

In this role you will be pivotal in ensuring that property information is accurately recorded to report rent performance to the Group and to provide finance support in completing external regulatory returns relating to rent and property stock.

This is a highly data driven role where you will be working with large volumes of data and liaising with a range of stakeholders so ideally you will have excellent Excel skills, the ability to understand accounts and forecasting and be able to build strong working relationships.

What are some of the things we are looking for?

• You will possess an understanding of rent accounting and/or demonstrate a desire to learn and develop within an Assistant Rent Accountant role
• AAT Level 3 or equivalent
• Experience of accounting in a large and complex organisation with substantial budgets
• Excellent ICT skills (for example cloud technologies, Excel and Word).
• Experience of data analysis and reconciliation
• Experience of developing and managing an excellent customer driven service.
• Experience of interpreting information, carrying out research, analysing complex data, appraising performance, and managing risk.

Although this role is home-based, you should be able to travel to our Group offices approximately once a week as needed. Our offices are located at Birmingham Business Park and Central Park, Worcester. Any necessary travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the current Inland Revenue mileage rates.

What are some of our great benefits?

• Up to 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
• Pension scheme with minimum employee contributions of up to 3% and Platform will contribute up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers

How can I apply?

If you're ready to advance your finance career with a forward-thinking organisation, click “apply now” and complete a short online application and upload your current CV. For more details about this position, please refer to the attached job description or please email: [e-mail]

We aim to hold virtual interviews for this role via Microsoft Teams and will contact you to arrange a suitable time. Interviews are scheduled to take place in the week commencing 19th January.