Parking Finance and Debt Officer

Parking Finance and Debt Officer RBKC616576

Job Summary:

Salary range: £37,575 - £41,286 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 27th May 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 10th June 2024

About Us:

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective, and efficient. Following the Grenfell tragedy, we have set ourselves the target of being the best Council. 

Come and join our busy Parking Finance and Debt team where you will actively engage with local residents and visitors to the borough regarding their parking activities and Debt recovery queries for Parking Services.

The Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for someone highly motivated, resilient, and competent to be part of the Parking Service Finance and Debt Team in order to maintain and improve our excellent service.

You will be part of a small team responsible for undertaking income reconciliation, refund processing and other financial administration for all parking-related income. You will also undertake and assist with debt recovery processes relating to Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) and other administrative / Finance-related duties appropriate to grade as required.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

With knowledge of the Traffic Management Act, you should have extensive experience within a Parking Services environment, you will need excellent written and communication skills and good ICT skills. You can work to tight deadlines and meet standards. You can manage uncertainty, change and ambiguity positively and deliver a consistently effective and high standard Parking service, with experience in dealing with financial records and information (preferably income reconciliation), and experience managing various tasks in a front-line service capacity, with excellent quality control.

In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
 

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, that we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk/spam folder as our system-generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk