Property Assistant
Salary from £26,229 dependent on experience
Up to 5% bonus
Permanent
Based at our offices in Leeds, Thorpe Park
40 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Property Assistant working within our Land and Property (L&P) team on a permanent basis here at our offices based in Leeds.
You will be providing administration duties to deliver the provision of an effective property management service whilst carrying out a support function for the wider business. As well as engaging with a wide range of stakeholders from the Connections team internally amongst others to the general public and with local councils, Highways Agency, Network Rail, private, commercial and agricultural landowners to name but a few.
You will be administering ongoing legal payments via SAP, processing payments, purchase orders and non ordered payments whilst allocating all incoming payments as well.
Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include but not be limited to
- Acquisition of new property rights relating to New Connections, SUO (Stopping up Orders)
- Assist Connections to meet KPI's with regards to issuing of quotations
- Maintain and manage job recording application and spreadsheet, providing management information to Land & Property Manager
- Ensure payments are kept up to date – so agreements are not invalidated
- Minutes & Actions from L&P team meetings
- Deed management – Ensure NGN has a compliant deed register with new deeds recorded
- Provide general land and property advice to various stakeholders
What we are looking for in our Property Assistant
- A general understanding of Land and Property would be highly advantageous
- General administration knowledge along with knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook etc
- Ability to understand legal documentation and legislation documents
- SAP and accounting processing experience
What we offer you
- Starting salary from £26,229
- Up to 5% bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets)
- 40 hours per week
- 25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period)
- SSP for first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay
- A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme
- Flexible benefits including salary sacrifice options such as cycle to work, gym membership and many more
We are ... Northern Gas Networks. We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That's around 6.7million individual customers. We don't generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes. In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role. We are ... Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people. We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan' having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good' in the communities that we serve.
Next Steps. Please apply by clicking apply and uploading your CV. We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be contact within two weeks to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout September. We look forward to receiving your application for the role.
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