Service Charge Officer

A leading Housing Association is looking for an experienced Service Charge Officer to support the delivery of the service charge setting cycle, that these are coordinated and run effectively. Providing operational support to the housing team to ensure compliance with our Service Charge Policy and Procedure, and the relevant legislation. Facilitating delivery of the Service Charge Setting Cycle.

You also:-

• Maintain an awareness of the relevant developing legislation's and best practice in service charges, becoming an expert in your field
• Provide support and guidance to the Housing Teams with the budget setting cycles for variable and fixed service charges, year-end reconciliations and annual consultation process to drive consistency and compliance.
• Ensure that budgets and cycle trackers are created and the legal management structures of schemes are documented in Ensemble and easily accessible to Housing teams.
• Understand new schemes and assist with the preparation of new scheme estimates, review of new scheme service charges, annual estimates, audit requirements.
• Support the Housing Team to understand queries related to all service charge transactions, and related to budget setting or accounts cycles.
• Assist with providing low level information to external auditors during the audit process
• Support and upskill housing teams to prepare documentation under section 22 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 for the resident to inspect.
• Provide guidance to housing teams, as required, on how to analyse service charge income generated against costs incurred and how to makeadjustments to service charge accounts

Pay rate is 22.24 PAYE or 28 Umbrella per hour

For more info please contact Ashley Diamond on (phone number removed)

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.