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Cash Posting Officer

Peabody
£34,000
Full-time
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Are you highly organised, detail-focused, and passionate about getting things right? Do you enjoy working with financial data, reconciling payments, and solving problems? If so, we’d love to hear from you! As a Cash Posting Officer, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring that customer payments are accurately recorded and reconciled against rent accounts. You’ll work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders, using your keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills to resolve queries and discrepancies. What You’ll Be Doing: ✔ Ensuring customer receipts are accurately recorded on the rent ledgers. ✔ Processing multiple payment methods, including Housing Benefit, Allpay, Universal Credit, bank transfers, and Direct Debits. ✔ Investigating and resolving missing payments, ensuring suspense accounts are kept to a minimum. ✔ Performing reconciliations to ensure all payments are correctly reflected on resident accounts. ✔ Managing the team inbox on a rotational basis, using initiative to prioritise and respond to queries. ✔ Collaborating with the Collections Team and other internal teams to ensure a seamless cash posting process. What We’re Looking For: ✔ Essential: High-level knowledge of Excel and Microsoft 365 applications. Experience in a customer service or customer relations role. Experience in a role requiring strong attention to detail, high accuracy, and multitasking. Good technical competency in coding, posting, and reconciliation. Ability to work as part of a team and collaborate effectively. ✔ Desirables (but not essential): Experience of working in a finance function, ideally within the housing sector, with knowledge of financial systems such as Sun Systems and Capita Aims (Payment 360). Proven ability to manage a team email inbox efficiently, handle bulk Direct Debit changes, and ensure accurate financial processing within a structured environment. Why Join Us? At Peabody, we’re committed to supporting our teams to thrive. You’ll be joining a collaborative environment where accuracy, organisation, and customer focus are truly valued. We celebrate diversity, encourage new ideas, and work together to make a difference for our residents. Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody: 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal. 4 x Life Assurance Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications Two additional paid volunteering days each year Family friendly policies Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1 How to Apply: We want to understand what makes you a great fit for this role. In your personal statement, please clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience align with the essential and desirable criteria. We’re looking for passionate, detail-oriented, and motivated individuals, so use this opportunity to showcase your strengths! Click the ‘Apply Now’ button to send us your CV and personal statement. We look forward to learning more about you and how you can contribute to our team! For questions, contact Julie-Ann O'Malley at Julie-Ann.O'[email protected]. Selection Process Shortlisting: 18 February Face to Face Interview Dates: Monday 24 February and Thursday 27 February (at Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo). Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Expiry date: 02/03/2025
Cash Posting Officer
Company
Peabody
Salary
£34,000
Job Type
Full-time
Location
South East London
Our Commitments
Living Wage Employer
Hiring Local
Disability Confident
Building Diverse Workforces
Climate Conscious
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Peabody

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We're at a particularly exciting point in our story: Catalyst joined the Peabody Group as a subsidiary on 1 April 2022, and should fully merge in April 2023. The new organisation will be responsible for 104,000 homes, with 220,000 residents across London and the South East of England. By joining together, we’ll go further and faster with our plans to improve our services, invest in our homes and communities and create innovative solutions to the challenges of carbon consumption and building safety. If you join us you'll be part of something special: fulfilling your ambitions and working with people who truly care. We offer great opportunities to develop and grow and a range of flexible benefits. You'll also have the chance to work with colleagues who want to help people make the most of their lives. We need talented employees who want to make a difference. If this sounds like you we can’t wait to meet you.
Metrics we Are Proud of
4000+
Employees paid the Real or London Living Wage
38%
of our board members are women
20%
Social value weighting in procurement activities
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Mental Health
Free, confidential assistance programme for 24/7 phone counselling, legal advice, and referral for therapy.
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Health and Wellness
Annual allowance to spend on health benefits e.g. gym memberships, cycle-to-work scheme and dental insurance
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Giving Back
We also offer payroll giving to charity and you can take two working days to volunteer in the community.
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Flexible Working
We're happy to talk flexible working, including part-time, compressed hours or from home.
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Learning & Development
Multiple opportunities for L&D, including mentoring, career coaching, apprenticeships or e-learning
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Support
We have a team of employee supporters, who can help you access information, support and guidance
Our Commitments
Living Wage Employer
Disability Confident
Hiring Local
Building Diverse Workforces
Climate Conscious

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