Rent Officer

**Role**: Rents Officer

**Hours**: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday

**Salary**: £25,719 - £32,149 per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)

**Contract**:Permanent

You will be maintaining the rent accounting system, ensuring information is current, complete & accurate. You will be providing a first-class service to our customers.

We support agile working, so you’ll be provided all IT equipment to work flexibly between your home and at our Dartford office.

**Who are we?**

Moat are one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spread across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future. We have just released our new corporate strategy, so it’s an exciting time to join Moat This involves being bold and ambitious, investing in new and existing homes, putting safety and quality first. We also deliver for and with our customers through our new Customer Engagement strategy, which will help us to deliver the requirements of the Social Housing White Paper.

We are also proud to announce that we have been awarded an accreditation for **‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work’ 2023**, based on our employee feedback.

**Your key tasks will include**:

- Processing transactions to tenant accounts in a timely and accurate manner including the processing of automatic files and the maintenance of the foreign posting table.
- Posting cash book rent items and maintain appropriate records to allow timely reconciliation of the nominal ledger control accounts to postings in the housing management system.
- Processing changes to tenant and property account information to reflect tenant movements; new properties; disposal of properties (staircasings, Social Homebuy, Right to Buy/Acquire, stock disposal transactions) accurately and in a timely manner.
- Raising the rent debit and reconcile the posting to the expected charge.
- Posting dishonoured DD adjustments and send appropriate notification to Tenants / Income Recovery.
- Dealing with rent related enquiries as appropriate.
- Providing cover to produce sales invoices as required.
- Indexing items in the document management system in an accurate & timely manner.

**We're looking for someone who has**:
**- A good standard of education - Numeracy in particular**

**- Basic knowledge of functions in Microsoft Excel and Word**

**- Some understanding of financial database ledger systems.**

**In return, you will receive**:
A range of benefits. For more info, check out our employee benefits video here: Our employee benefits: what we can offer you - YouTube

**Want to know more about Moat?**

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**Interested in applying? We want to hear from you**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £25,719.00-£32,149.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 26/05/2024