Senior Assistant Rent Accountant

We're looking for a Senior Assistant Rent Accountant to join our dynamic Rents team and play a key role in ensuring the accurate provision of accounting information and budget setting for rent across the Group. This exciting new role offers you the opportunity to lead a small team dedicated to setting accurate rents and ensuring robust rent budgeting. You'll oversee rent budget production, manage budget variance reporting, and conduct short-term forecasting and rent reconciliations to keep our financials on target. In this role, you'll also collaborate closely with various teams across the Group, including Operations, Investment, Lettings, Development, and Service Charges, making this a unique position with wide-ranging impact and visibility. This is an exciting time to join us on our transformation journey to provide a truly modern finance function helping to support our purpose to deliver a customer-first housing experience for a better future.

• Substantial experience in managing rents in a regulated environment
• Experience of accounting in a large and complex organisation with substantial budgets
• Knowledge and understanding of rent legislation
• Experience of using, maintaining and reporting on large volumes of data
• Knowledge and understanding of accounting standards
• Experience and knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework relevant to the role
• Experience of working in partnership with finance and non-finance colleagues to achieve results
While this role is home based, you should have the ability to occasionally travel to Group offices and other locations as required. Our Group offices are located at Birmingham Business Park Solihull and Central Park, Worcester.

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. We recognise the unique and individual needs of people, so if you are interested in this role but would like to explore a different way of working to the standard Monday to Friday, 9-5 approach, then please highlight this on your application or discuss it with us at the interview stage. After all, we want to attract the best people to work for us and we know that one size does not fit all. 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., We put colleagues and customers at the heart of all we do. Valuing difference, we are free to challenge each other and are open and honest in our relationships. Own It We say what we'll do and then we do it. We listen, understand and are empowered to make decisions. We look for our own ways to learn and adapt and focus on what we can do. One Team We are connected, collaborative and in it together. We want everyone to reach their potential and be the best they can be. We actively support each other to make this happen. Be Brave We are curious and courageous. We look for better ways to do things, are comfortable trying them and learn quickly. We are not afraid to stand out from the rest and celebrate our successes.

Salary £37,461 - £41,623 per annum (depending on experience) Location Home based Midlands (with travel to Worcester/Solihull office as required) Mergefield Title {Mergefield Value} Mergefield Title {Mergefield Value} This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.,
• 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