Head Of Rent Setting And Compliance

What we’re looking for:

• Do you have experience in Rent Setting and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of compliance requirements?
• Do you possess hands-on technical expertise and the ability to cultivate strong working relationships with all relevant service providers, suppliers, and stakeholders?
• Do you have a strong understanding of the housing regulatory framework for landlords with a particular focus on knowledge around the Rent Standard?
• Are you able and experienced in driving forward relevant projects and initiatives to meet deadlines and deliverables?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for Head of Rent Setting and Compliance on a Permanent basis at our Westminster Bridge Road offices.

A bit about the role:

As a Head of Rent Setting and Compliance, you will bring substantial value by ensuring the availability of dependable data to facilitate informed decision-making and safeguarding Peabody's operational integrity. Reporting directly to the Finance Director of Operations, your responsibilities will involve leading the rent-setting process and conducting thorough financial reviews. Your continuous commitment to system and process enhancement, with an emphasis on optimizing efficiency and user-friendliness, will be a mark of your approach to achieving excellence. Furthermore, you will also ensure that our rents remain affordable and compliant with regulations.

Some of the key results for the role include:

• You will provide technical advice to the organization and ensure that Peabody complies fully with the Rent Standard of the Regulator of Social Housing and individual rent agreements.
• You will be responsible for overseeing rent-setting processes for all tenancies and re-lets, recording procedures, escalating complaints to appropriate forums, and recommending ways to enhance operations.
• You will be conducting the yearly rent review within regulatory deadlines and maintaining legal compliance with the Rent Standard.
• You will ensure the accuracy of financial information related to rent accounting. You will work closely with the Assistant Director of Service Charge to ensure data quality and accurate charges.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days working in the Westminster Bridge Road office.

Please note interviews will take place on the 11th and 12th April 2024

A bit about us:

160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.

The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role)
• Up to 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates 
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year 
• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal 
• 4 x salary life assurance
• Up to 10% pension contribution

Are you ready to apply?

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position of Head of Rent Setting and Compliance, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role. 

If you need to ask us anything else at all, feel free to drop an email to victoria.wilson1@peabody.org.uk and one of our team will be in touch.

Peabody reserves the right to close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.