Role Title: Expenditure Control Officer (Service contracts)
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Salary: £28,617 to £35,771 per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)
Contract: Permanent
You’ll be working in our finance team, monitoring and controlling the coding of service charge related expenditure from external service contract suppliers. You will need to be AAT part qualified or working towards recognised accounting qualification.
We support agile working, so you’ll be provided all IT equipment to work flexibly between your home, and our Dartford office.
Who are we?
We’re one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spreading across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future. Our purpose is to “open doors to better lives for our customers”. We thrive to be customer pioneers; providing a great customer experience.
We are also proud to announce that we have been awarded an accreditation for ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work’ 2024, based on our employee feedback.
Your key tasks will include:
Working with internal departments in reviewing and accurately recording invoices from suppliers delivering services on schemes where Moat has an interest.
Providing assistance to internal departments on new development hand overs to ensure new sites are added to contracts. Advise on any identified improvements to current processes for consideration to change/implement.
Reviewing the accuracy of journals before passing for authorisation. Post into Moat’s finance system in line with contracts, budgets and financial limits.
Providing monthly management reports to relevant departments (dependant on contract) showing variances or exceptions to coding structure or where invoices are missing.
Working with the Service Charge team to identify the need for new nominal codes and requesting these where required.
Maintaining the reserve fund accounting process working with Property Services in identifying costs to be recovered from homeowners. Identify and inform Service Charge officers where reserve fund contributions may need to be increased.
Preparing accrual and prepayment journals for service contract suppliers monthly for authorisation and posting.
You’ll have:
An eye for detail and accuracy
AAT part qualified or working towards recognised accounting qualification.
Knowledge of MS Office, and use of database systems.
A general awareness of Landlord and Tenant legislation.
Desirable / advantageous to have experience of social housing.
To view the full job description, please click here: https://www.moat.co.uk/media/4allcw0j/expenditure-control-officer-service-contracts.pdf
In return, you’ll receive:
A range of benefits. For more info, check out our employee benefits video here: Our employee benefits: what we can offer you (youtube.com)
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Interested in applying? We want to hear from you!
If interested, please apply by 11pm on Thursday, 12 December 2024
We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the advert before this date if we receive good interest. We're looking forward to reading your application!
Please note we will no longer be accepting CV’s as part of the recruitment process. All candidates must now complete an application form on our career’s website.
If you require any additional adjustments to the recruitment process, please email peopleservices@moat.co.uk
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