Senior Revenue and Benefits Officer - Devon
£19.40 p/hr
6 Month Contract
Start Date: 8 Jan 2024
End Date: 7 Jul 2025
My Client in South Devon is looking for a Senior Revenue and Benefits Officer.
Main Role and Responsibilities:
* Undertake prompt and efficient billing, collection, and recovery of monies due to the Council in accordance with legislation, guidance, best practice, and local policy.
* Make timely and accurate decisions on liability and entitlement to reliefs, discounts, exemptions, and reductions including Working Age Council Tax Reduction claims (WACTR), updating the account, and notifying the decision as required.
* Ensure timely and accurate action relating to Direct Debit instructions, including setting up new accounts, amendment of existing instructions, processing BACS errors and warnings lists.
* Administer refunds and write-offs.
Skills:
* Detailed and comprehensive knowledge of Revenue (Council Tax and enforcement) legislation.
* Experienced within a Revenue and Benefit setting (5+years)
* Able to use Civica systems - Open Revenues and D360 (previously known as Comino)
* Able to use Microsoft Office
The Next Stage:
If you are interested in the above role and feel you can meet the above requirements - we would love to hear from you as soon as possible. We please ask all applications are made via the click apply button, and we will aim to process your application as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
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