Head of Rent Accounting

5 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Platform Housing Group Full time

We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Head of Rents** **to join our dynamic team

This is a newly created role reporting to the Director of Rent and Service Charges and will be responsible for leading, developing, and delivering our rent accounting services across all tenures.

This pivotal role will involve working collaboratively with various departments to ensure accurate rent setting, compliance with financial regulations, and continuous improvement of rent accounting processes.

This is an exciting time to join the team and support us on our transformation journey to provide a truly modern finance function helping to support our mission of investing in people and places to build a stronger more sustainable future.

**Some of the things we are looking for**:

- Extensive experience in managing rents in a regulated environment
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of Rent legislation
- Experience and knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework relevant to the role
- Considerable experience of leading a rents team managing complex accounts
- Excellent communicator with ability to collaboratively engage with all areas of the business
- Innovative and forward thinking with desire to transform
- Ability to travel to addresses within the Group’s geography and attend conferences/offices as required
- While this role is home-based, you should be able to travel within the Group’s area and attend offices as needed. Our offices are in Birmingham Business Park, Solihull, and Central Park, Worcester, with initial travel expected to be one day per week/fortnight_.

**Some of the great benefits we can offer you**:

- 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
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
- Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers

**_ Here at Platform, we believe in investing and evolving our ways of working. If you are a talented Rent Accounting professional who thrives in a creative environment where you can innovate and drive transformation, we would love to hear from you_**

We aim to hold interviews for this role at Birmingham Business Park (B37 7YD) starting the week of and will contact you to arrange a time once successfully shortlisted.

**Join us and find your purpose at Platform**

Working with us is more than just a job, you will be joining an amazing organisation that values you and your contribution, and where you can truly make a difference and change people’s lives.

You will join the largest social housing association in the Midlands. We're much more than just houses; we build homes, strong communities, and make a real and positive difference to the lives of our customers.

Platform is a great place to work, we offer lots of opportunities for you to get involved, share ideas and shape what we do - from networking groups through to fun community and social events. This is an exciting time to join us, that will provide you with real exposure to the wider dynamics of a truly modern housing association that will play a major part in delivering our 5-year corporate strategy.

Platform Housing Group are committed to building a healthy, vibrant and inclusive organisation that treats people with respect and creates opportunities for all.



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