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About the Role
As a Business Rates Officer, you will play a key role in administering, collecting, and recovering Business Rates across the borough. You will work closely with customers, enforcement agents, and legal representatives to ensure efficient revenue collection and compliance with statutory regulations.
Responsibilities
- Administering, collecting, and recovering Business Rates across the borough.
- Working closely with customers, enforcement agents, and legal representatives to ensure efficient revenue collection and compliance with statutory regulations.
Requirements
- Proven experience in revenue collection and enforcement.
- High-level knowledge of Business Rates legislation.
- High-level knowledge of issues relating to debt recovery and enforcement.
- Knowledge and experience of Court proceedings for the recovery of unpaid revenue.
- Strong knowledge of Business Rates legislation and debt recovery.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and organisational skills.
- Experience working in a revenue collection or similar environment.
- Ability to manage challenging situations and work under pressure.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and high-quality service delivery.
Skills
- Business Rates legislation
- Debt recovery
- Enforcement
- Court proceedings
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Organisational skills
Location
- Lewisham
- Laurence House
Work Type
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- £40,404 - £41,637 per annum
Benefits
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Generous holiday allowance
- Local Government Pension scheme
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Season ticket and bicycle loans
- A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
- Supportive staff networks
About the Company
- Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!
- We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.
Equal Opportunity
- Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme; further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply