Mosscare st vincents BTS

 

 

 

 

Finance Team Leader

Manchester, Greater Manchester

£28,694 - £30484

Job overview

Reporting to the Financial Services Accountant, the Income Finance Team Leader will lead and motivate the Income Finance team, ensuring all the appropriate controls and processes are operated effectively and services are efficiently delivered.

This will involve:

  • Maintain the Group’s rent accounting system, taking responsibility for all Rental and Service Charge Income.
  • Support the Assistant Financial Accountant with all matters relating to rent and service charge rises and all service charge related exercises in the year.
  • Process the weekly debit on a timely basis
  • Lead and motivating the team of 4 Finance Assistants (Income) responsible for all rents & service charge transactions, sales/debtor and bank (income) transactions.
  • Ensure the rent suspense account is cleared promptly, perform the rent bank accounts reconciliations.
  • Liaise with Neighbourhoods in relation to housing benefit overpayments and other matters
  • Apply any group or statutory policy to rent and repairs processes.
  • Manage and monitor the debt recovery and maximize the income received by the Group
  • Manage and maintain the Accounts Receivable ledger
  • Provide the Financial Services Accountant with any relevant reports around Income and the performance of the Income Team

The Income Section of the Financial Services team interfaces with both internal customers and our external clients and tenants, ensuring that income is managed in an efficient and customer focussed way. An emphasis will be on developing effective stakeholder relationship within the wider MSV group and specifically those closely interacting with the Income Team.

Person overview

You will be part Qualified AAT or have a good general standard of education with previous experience of working within a finance role applying strong financial & administrative controls and be able to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

With a proven track record of managing the rent accounting process end-to-end and managing challenging situations ideally in a supervisory capacity. Excellent working knowledge of Excel and other financial/IT systems is required.

Possessing excellent communication skills, you will have a natural ability to engage with staff, peers, board members, tenants and external partners in order to build effective two-way relationships.

It is essential you can work on your own initiative whilst working collaboratively, find solutions to problems and possess a customer focused attitude in every aspect of your role.

The application

For more detailed information on this Finance Team Leader role go to our dedicated career site www.apply2us.com/jobs/MSV.  If you wish to apply now please click the apply button below.

Claire Bayman of Bayman Topping & Smythe (BT&S) is the retained partner for this vacancy. If you would like an initial confidential conversation prior to applying, please contact Claire on: info@btsrecruit.com.

Organisation Overview

Mosscare St Vincent’s Housing Group (MSV) is a values led, people and communities focussed landlord with a strong track record of creating thriving neighbourhoods. We work in partnership with others to help influence and shape local and national agendas. Our organisation was created through the merger of Mosscare Housing Group and St Vincent’s Housing Association. We believe this amalgamation of two long established and respected Greater Manchester community landlords has brought real benefit for our customers.

Employing around 300 members of staff we are investing in neighbourhoods by building new homes; currently the stewards of over 8200 across Greater Manchester we plan to build 1200 new homes across the North West in the next 5 years.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE All third parties’ applications will be forwarded to Bayman Topping & Smythe.