Financial Reconciliation Officer

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Financial Reconciliation Officer on a 12 months contract with a possibility of further extension.

To ensure accuracy of all financial and organisational control systems through regular and timely reconciliations, ensuring that any issues or discrepancies are identified, traced to source and resolved. To undertake regular rent and service element calculations and settings, ensuring robust data is regularly maintained for this process. Supporting stock and asset reconciliation, to ensure that data is accurate and consistent, and available as and when required.

Accountabilities:

• Weekly, monthly and annual reconciliations of rents and service charges on Northgate Housing (Sx3) and ensuring timely and accurate posting to General Ledger in Agresso.
• Investigation of reconciliation anomalies, resolving where possible and making recommendations on endemic system design issues.
• Annual rent and tenant service element calculations, modelling different scenarios in line with guidelines and local policies and achieving agreed timescales.
• Reconciliation of data on housing stock and other corporate assets, to ensure consistency between systems and accurate income and expenditure.
• Process mapping of standard data maintenance processes, to ensure business continuity.
• Produces reports from risk management monitoring systems for inclusion in management reports.

Requirements:

• Experience of working with financial systems and data
• Experience of working within a social housing context
• Experience of working with Northgate Housing, Business Objects, Agresso and standard office software.
• A sound understanding of basic financial accounting practices
• Knowledge of social housing rent and service element charging mechanisms
• Knowledge of rent restructuring methodology

If this sounds good to you, please apply or contact us for more information!