What We Do
Our client is an exciting and rapidly growing business, which provides high-quality, purpose-built single and multi family housing for the private rental market.
The aim is to revolutionise the private rental sector by challenging existing standards, creating and nurturing communities and, ultimately driving better living standards for our customers and tenants with an ambition to deliver 2,000 new homes each year.
They offer our institutional investor clients a one stop service under one roof covering all parts of the process from site identification and development through to letting, management and maintenance of the properties.
Your life as an Asset Specialist
Working within our Asset Management team, you will enjoy showing your dazzling organisational skills with take responsibility for a wide range of Asset Management tasks.
What you'll do
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to build effective working relationships, including third party management agents.
- Provide high quality, effective customer service at all times.
- Collating and evaluating data sets in regard to portfolio performance, such as renewals and capital expenditure.
- Reviewing our Assets (Houses and Apartments) correctly in a timely manner and with all the appropriate documentation including but not exclusively EPC's, Gas Safety Certification, EICR's, SEG certificates, Warranty documents.
- Applying for or registering for Landlord licenses, waste facilities, Royal Mail, Council Tax, SEG, EVCP contracts, scheme led incentives, and any other applications or registrations as required.
- Property handover escalations and enquiries.
- Approval of all works up to a value of £500 and in accordance with pre-agreed operating expenditure budgets and criteria.
- Review of Operating Budgets as required.
- Assist with Building Insurance arrangements.
- Assist with any ad-hoc requests from the Client.
- Assisting Lettings and Management department with any Asset related queries.
- Act as point of contact in the absence of the Client Asset Manager or the Operations Director.
- Any other duties as assigned by your Line Manager.
Who we're looking for
We want to find a self-starter with asset management experience who likes to work in a fast-paced world where they can take responsibility and get things done. They would have experience managing and evaluating operating budgets, reviewing portfolio reports, working directly with clients and portfolio day to day management.
- 12 months experience in a relevant role.
- A good standard of education with strong numeracy and literacy skills.
- The clear thinking and confidence to influence others and make sound business decisions.
- Experience in managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- The kind of flexible, positive attitude that makes for excellent service and teamwork.
- The ability to communicate clearly and confidently in writing and verbally.
- Great, consistent attention to detail of the kind legal documents demand.
- A desire to develop astonishingly good customer service skills.
- The ability to manage their workload, prioritise tasks and use time productively.
- A natural capacity to use their initiative, solve problems and fix things.
- A willingness to learn and develop their skills and knowledge.
- Eligibility to work in the UK and everything it takes to complete pre- employment screening successfully.
And, ideally, but not vitally:
- Some experience of using property management systems
- A relevant qualification - or working towards one