Responsibilities
- Process and reconcile financial transactions, including invoices, Discretionary housing payments and prevention fund payments.
- Assist in budget tracking and financial reporting.
- Collaborate with the team manager, finance team, statutory and non-statutory organisations to ensure accurate and timely financial transactions.
- Identify landlords offering suitable private rented accommodation for our clients at the local housing allowance rate.
- Negotiating deposits and rental payments
- Updating our portfolio of accommodation providers and sharing with the team.
- Ensuring the subscription renewal of accommodation platforms.
Skills
- Proven experience as an Administrator or in a similar role.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Process and reconcile financial transactions, including invoices, Discretionary housing payments and prevention fund payments.
- Assist in budget tracking and financial reporting.
- Collaborate with the team manager, finance team, statutory and non-statutory organisations to ensure accurate and timely financial transactions.
- The ability to use computer systems, including databases as part of your daily tasks.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
- You thrive in negotiating and accomplishing daily outcomes.
- Be solution focused, proactive and results driven
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Able to draft professional correspondence and accessible written documentation for a wide range of audiences, including letters and minutes.
- Confident in communicating verbally to a wide range of internal and external audiences on the phone and face to face, being persuasive, diplomatic and tactful.
- Can demonstrate knowledge, experience or relevant qualifications of working with housing and homelessness legislation, in relation to private rented housing and the Homelessness Reduction Act.
- Can demonstrate knowledge in welfare benefits legislation (including welfare reform) to support service users effectively.
- Can demonstrate knowledge in sourcing, negotiating, and maintaining relationships with agents and landlords in the private rented sector.
Work experience
- Experience in Administrator, property management,
Hours of Work
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39 hours per week on average