Job Description

Job Summary:

Salary range: \xc2\xa339,615 - \xc2\xa347,736 per annum (Pending pay award)
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 9th July 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 17th July 2023

About Us:

Play a leading role in managing Parking Services contracts with a human touch.

At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people at the heart of everything we do. We strive to make sure every service delivers the best for residents - and to treat every resident as an individual. This does not stop when we\'re dealing with people who owe the Council money as a result of accruing penalty charge notices for violating parking regulations.

As a senior member of the team, with responsibility to deputise for the Operations Manager Parking Finance and Debt, you will be a role model for a culture in which emotional intelligence guides every negotiation, to respectfully ensure rules are followed.

The Role:

As Senior Parking Finance and Debt Officer, you will manage multi-million-pound financial resources and contracts for Parking Services. This will include taking the lead on managing and monitoring the contract for enforcement agents\' services and other agencies providing parking debts on our behalf. You will be instrumental in making sure all of these contractors deal with issues sensitively, especially when customers may be vulnerable.

We will look to you to supervise finance and debt officers who are involved in high-volume transactions, and to motivate, advise and develop team members so they provide the highest standard of financial support, debt recovery and customer services. You will take responsibility for budget management and forecasting across parking income and debt recovery, and for closing parking services accounts. Your varied remit will range from checking reconciliations, to writing reports and undertaking financial modelling.

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About You:

To join us, you will need a relevant qualification such as AAT or CAT, plus operational experience of computerised financial ledgers. We expect you to have worked in a finance or accounting role, with responsibility for supervising financial services staff.

Your working knowledge should range from contract management processes, to legislation such as the Traffic Management Act. Good communication skills are vital, whether you are facilitating meetings, deal with budget managers, liaising with partners, coaching staff, or writing reports.

Crucially, you are flexible, resilient and a quick learner and keen to progress in your accountancy career. From opportunities to gain accountancy qualifications, through to management training, you will find the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to be a place where you can thrive.

You can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme, generous annual leave, and excellent learning and development opportunities.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV\'s will not be considered for this role.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email:

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea