Rent Setting Team Leader

Rate: £143 per day / £20.40 per hour (PAYE) Duration: ASAP start - end of September Location: Manchester (Anchor Days: 2x monthly - second Thursday of the month and the Thursday following the fourth Tuesday) Your new company A leading North West housing provider committed to delivering high-quality, compliant and customer‑focused services. The organisation is undergoing significant transformation across its rent and service charge functions, creating an opportunity for a skilled Rent Setting Team Leader to support regulatory compliance, system development and operational excellence. Your new role You will lead the Rents Team to deliver accurate, timely and compliant rent setting in line with statutory and regulatory requirements. The role involves overseeing rent accounting processes, ensuring data integrity between housing and finance systems, and supporting the annual rent review cycle. You will play a key role in transforming the rent service, improving processes, and maximising system functionality-particularly around the implementation of rent and service charge modules within Active H. This is a hands‑on leadership role requiring strong system capability, excellent communication, and the ability to drive performance and service improvement. What you'll need to succeed Experience in staff management and development Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to plan, prioritise and manage workloads Flexibility and enthusiasm in a changing environment Confident IT user, including Microsoft Office Strong numeracy skills Commitment to team working Strong system and data management skillsWhat you'll get in return Competitive PAYE rate Opportunity to lead a key function within a respected housing provider Involvement in major transformation and system development projects Hybrid working with structured anchor daysWhat you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)