Rents Coordinator

Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Affordable Homes. With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector.

As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.

We’re recruiting for a Rents Coordinator to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary and occasional travel to our office. You will support the Rent and Nomination Manager and internal and external colleagues to ensure appropriate rents are set for all new schemes coming through the approval process. As well as support the annual review of rent and service charges with our external suppliers and internal Stakeholders.

What you'll be doing:

• Rent review ahead of the second stage of our internal scheme approval process - Check all comments made at stage one is closed off
• Rent reappraisal pre handover for sign off by the Rent and Nominations Manager
• Update Brolly (our internal Housing Management System) with finalised Rent figures in advance of letting.
• Performance reports - valuation movement quarterly report and KPI's
• Maintaining rent dashboard in liaison with Finance colleagues
• Keeping rent setting models up to date to support rent appraisals and SDR reporting
• Re-Let rent assessments
• Contributing to internal and external audit and regulatory returns

Who we're looking for:

• Proven experience of rent setting
• Solid understanding of the importance of building and maintaining relationships for the mutual benefit of all external and internal parties
• An understanding of key rent setting legislation within the affordable housing sector
• Knowledge and experience of affordable housing sector
• Experience of working with Housing Management Systems and an understanding of the importance of keeping the information in such systems up to date
• Interest in developing systems to support the business with rent setting and reporting

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart  

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.