Rents Assistant

Job Description

Rents Assistant

Temporary – until 31 March 2027, Full Time

We have an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to work within our Finance Team, helping us to develop and manage our rents function. We are a forward thinking, values driven housing association, and this is a hybrid role working from home and in our Rockingham Street (Sheffield) office.

For our perfect candidate we are offering a varied & interesting role, working in a caring and friendly team, with a great package of benefits.

Our wider benefits:

• Salary: £27,092 - £28,819 per annum Working hours

• Employment Type: Temporary Position to 31 March 2027
• Contract Hours: 37 hours per week
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Car allowance: No
• Benefits which include an excellent flexible working scheme, hybrid working, family friendly benefits, wellbeing scheme, discounts scheme.
• Access to a wide range of programs to train and develop you
• Pension contribution
• SYHA rewards

For more information about our range of benefits, please visit the Your Wellbeing and Feeling at Home.

More about the role:

Reporting to the Rents and Service Charge manager you will assist in the process of SYHA rents and rent accounting. Ensuring rents are calculated correctly and set in line with company policy, current legislation/regulations, and best practice. Providing customers with accurate and timely financial information and dealing with associated queries that may arise.

The successful person will:

• Assist with the annual rent setting process for all SYHA properties 

• Assist in maintaining accurate rent calculations for new tenancies, re-lets, and rent reviews and maintain relevant fields in the housing management system 

• Process daily rent receipts on the finance and housing management systems 

• Reconcile payment batches to finance ledgers; investigate and clear suspense/unidentified payments and reconcile rent control accounts in a timely manner

 Who you are:

• Have a understanding of rents/rent accounting in a social housing environment.

• Experienced in working in a complex financial environment, with a good understanding of financial principles and processes
• Experienced in managing your personal workload to meet targets and deadlines
• Can develop and maintain effective financial monitoring systems and to understand spreadsheets to an intermediate level
• Can analyse and manipulate complex information and produce reports and statistics when required
• Can fully utilise standard Microsoft Office products and have a working knowledge of other management systems

Who we are:

At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.

Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace, and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.

Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.

At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.

SYHA does not hold a sponsorship license and are unable to provide visa sponsorship. 

CLICK HERE TO APPLY https://careers.syha.co.uk/vacancy/rents-assistant-611500.html

For an Informal Discussion Contact: (Gary Cadman – Rents and Service Charge Manager– 0114 2702 640)

Closing Date: Friday 29^th May 2026

Interview Date: W/C 1^st June 2026