Finance Officer - Income

Joseph Rowntree Foundation; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust seeks a Finance Income Officer for a 10-month fixed-term contract. The role involves managing income collection and debt management across various sites, requiring strong accounting skills and experience in finance systems. Applicants should demonstrate excellent accuracy, numeracy, and relationship-building abilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in finance transactional processing, especially in income collection.
• Good knowledge of finance IT systems.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end income collection and debt management services.
• Process ledger transactions and manage income reconciliation.
• Support tenancy management functions for residential care homes.

Skills

Accuracy

Numeracy

Problem Solving

Relationship Building

Organizational Skills

Education

Qualification in accounting/book-keeping

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

MS Word

Job description

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

*Please note that we do not currently offer any Tier 2 sponsorship*

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’ll 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’ll work closely with relevant colleagues to manage the tenancy management functions on behalf of one residential care homes. 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’d 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 ledge. You’ll 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’ll 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’ll 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, you’ll be able to problem-solve complex workloads effectively, creatively and with a flexible approach and demonstrate a solution-based outlook

You’ll 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’re at our best when we’re 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.