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The Role:
An exciting opportunity to manage a professional and specialist homeownership service area, ensuring that the service is business driven and complies with the Council’s statutory and contractual obligations.
The post holder will contribute to the transformation of Exchequer services and be responsible for the provision of high quality, outcome focused and responsive professional and specialist housing services to a range of different audiences.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse, and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals, and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
About You:
You will be responsible for maximising income from service charges and fee paying services, thus contributing to the financial probity of the Council’s Housing Revenue Account.
You will lead the contact for system development for service charge billing, raising service charge liabilities and adjustments onto accounts, and all financial reconciliations relating to service charges (including preparing financial information for closing the housing revenue account and mortgage portfolio).
You will have a thorough knowledge and understanding of Housing Revenue Account accounting principles, and primary, secondary, and tertiary legislation relevant to service charges and homeownership management, particularly in the public sector.
Must have an excellent understanding of homeownership management with the ability to prepare the annual service charge statements of account.
Additional salary details
Please be advised that we will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment.
Benefits and more information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on 11th March 2024
Interview and Assessment: 25th March 2024
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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