Assistant Rent Accountant

Platform Housing Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Family-friendly policies

Medicash

Health Cash Plan

Pension scheme

Learning and Development

Wellbeing discounts

Job summary

Platform Housing Group is seeking a Senior Assistant Rent Accountant to ensure accurate rent and property stock data, reporting rent performance to the Group, and supporting external regulatory returns. The role is data-driven, requiring strong Excel skills and the ability to forecast and analyse large datasets.

The successful candidate will interact with various stakeholders, manage a customer-focused service, and travel to group offices about every two weeks, with flexibility for home-based

Qualifications

• AAT Level 3 or equivalent qualification.
• Experience of accounting in a large and complex organisation with substantial budgets.
• Excellent ICT skills including cloud technologies, Excel and Word.
• Experience of data analysis and reconciliation.
• Experience of delivering a customer-driven service.
• Ability to interpret information, research, analyse data, assess performance, and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Ensure property information is accurately recorded to report rent performance to the Group.
• Provide finance support for completing external regulatory returns relating to rent and property stock.
• Work with large volumes of data and liaise with stakeholders to support decision making.
• Travel to Group offices approximately every two weeks; based within commuting distance of Birmingham or Worcester.

Skills

Excel

Rent accounting

Forecasting

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Customer service

Education

AAT Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

Cloud technologies

Word

Job description

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 a Senior Assistant Rent Accountant role gained within the Social Housing sector.
• 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 every two weeks. Our offices are located at Birmingham Business Park and Central Park, Worcester. Due to the need for office working, we are looking for candidates to be based within an easily commutable distance of our offices.

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