Head of Finance - Rent & Service Charge
Posted 1 day ago by Hays
£70,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Head of Rents & Service Charge will lead the strategy for rent and service charges at a large housing association in the West Midlands. This permanent role involves ensuring compliance, transparency, and fairness in financial practices while responding proactively to policy reforms. The position requires significant experience in rent setting and service charge management, along with strong analytical and financial skills. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary with additional benefits.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the organisation's strategy for rent and service charges.
- Ensure compliance, transparency, and fairness in financial practices.
- Manage robust systems for delivering and managing services.
- Provide proactive responses to policy reforms and analyse their impact.
- Offer insights to the board, including scenario planning and impact modelling.
Key Skills:
- Significant experience in rent setting and service charge management.
- Good knowledge of housing policy.
- Ability to analyse policy changes and translate them into strategic responses.
- Excellent financial skills.
- Experience in scenario modelling is ideal.
Salary (Rate): £70,000.00 yearly
City: West Midlands
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Your new company
You will be working for a large housing association in the West Midlands as a Head of Rents & Service Charge, on a permanent basis.
Your new role
As a key member of their Finance division, you will be leading the organisation's strategy for rent and service charges, ensuring they are compliant, transparent and fair, and the team has robust systems in place to deliver and manage the service. You will also ensure proactive and timely organisational responses to policy reforms, analysing their impact and providing insight to the board, which includes scenario planning and impact modelling. This role offers hybrid and very flexible working arrangements.
What you'll need to succeed
You should have significant experience in rent setting and service charge management and good knowledge of housing policy. You should have the ability to analyse policy changes and translate them into strategic responses. You should also have excellent financial skills, and ideally experience of scenario modelling.
What you'll get in return
You will receive a salary of £70000 plus an extremely generous pension scheme and 30 days annual leave (with an option to buy a further 5 days).
What you need to do now
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