Could you bring you passion, enthusiasm and appetite to learn to our Service Charge team? If it's a yes, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you. What you’ll be doing About you What you’ll be doing As a Service Charge Officer, you will take a key role in setting and reconciling service charges for tenant, homeowners and leaseholders living within Hants/Wilts/Surrounding areas. This will involve you handling, analysing and interrogating large amounts of financial data ensuring customers are only charged for what we can legally recover from them. You will do this by liaising with internal colleagues, referring to terms of leases, conveyance agreements and tenancy agreements and working in accordance with current service charge legislation. You'll work with our customers responding to their enquiries on the phone, over email and face to face about their service charges. About you You will be committed to delivering excellent customer service, with the skills to establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with customers and colleagues. You’ll have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and have a good eye for detail and accuracy when presenting information. You’ll be proficient in the use of IT including the Microsoft Office suite and CRM databases. You’ll need to have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers, including local and regional travel. You’ll need to have a UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle for work purposes. You will be required to undertake a DBS check if successful. What’s in it for me We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like: Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, virtual GP services, mental health training and a health cash plan We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more Enhanced leave We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives. About Aster Group Now is a really exciting time to join us. We’re working towards our vision of everyone has a home. It’s a bold statement but one everyone across our business is passionate about. What we do enables better lives. We provide safety and security through a range of housing and services. We will continue to grow so we can maximise our impact. Our strengths are our people and our culture. We believe that work isn’t somewhere you go, it’s something you do. No two days are the same here, and agile working is the norm rather than the exception. We’re on an exciting transformation journey. Our business strategy is clear. Our vision is bold. And what sets us apart is The Aster Way. The Aster Way is not just a set of words. It’s a shared understanding of the way we work – creating a fair and inclusive culture. It’s a set of straightforward principles that underpin everything we do, every day. From how we lead and learn, to how we collaborate, communicate and innovate, this is how we’ll reach our vision - that everyone has a home. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, so we expect all our colleagues to be motivated and inspired to deliver a positive customer experience. We supply a wide range of housing options in response to the housing crisis, working towards our vision of ensuring everyone has a home. Our not-for-dividend business has roots dating as far back as the mid-1920s when Cecil Homes, (part of Central and Cecil who we merged with in 2022) was formed. We have £2 billion worth of assets and plan to invest £2.5 billion to deliver 12,000 new homes by 2030. We forecast delivering over 1,100 homes during the current financial year (2021/22) across all tenures. The Group reinvests profits from open market sale and shared ownership to support the development of affordable rented homes. We own and maintain over 34,500 homes and employ more than 1,720 people. Our corporate social responsibility commitments set out the additional work our business chooses to do. For more information, visit www.aster.co.uk. Ready to apply? To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement. We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do. Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.