Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.
Accounts Receivable Officer
Worcester based with a balance of home and office working
£25,597 - £26,944 per year
35 hours per week
We are looking for an Accounts Receivable Officer to join a team of 4 people in the Housing Benefit Posting Team within the Accounts Receivable department based at our head office in Worcester. The team allocate payments received from Local Authorities, identify any discrepancies between payments and remittances and liaises with internal teams and key stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will be an individual who has experience of working with Local Authorities, a keen eye for detail, works well within a team and individually and has previous experience of using financial systems such as SAP.
The role of Accounts Receivable Officer will include:
- Locating and allocating payments received from Local Authorities
- Allocate payments from The Department of Work and Pensions
- Identify and querying any discrepancies between remittance values and payments received
- Liaising with other internal departments and local authorities to obtain information regarding payments that are due
- Help work towards teams weekly KPI
- Processing team inbox and assisting wherever required within wider Accounts Receivable team
Skills and experiences:
- Recent experience of undertaking a similar finance role
- Some experience of investigating issues and problem solving
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Cash allocating experience is desirable but not essential
- Good communication and excellent numeracy skills
- Experience using SAP/Coldharbour is desirable
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
Why work for us?
One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
- A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
- Life Assurance
- Employee Volunteering scheme
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
- Role salary is £23,270 with an additional policy allowance of £2,327 per annum (rising to £24,495 with an additional policy allowance of £2,449 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
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Closing Date: 12 May 2024
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
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Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.
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