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About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Business Rates Manager to take ownership of business rates across our unique and diverse portfolio. This role involves overseeing a significant rates liability, identifying cost reduction opportunities, challenging valuations, and ensuring efficient portfolio management, directly impacting both The Arch Company and its tenant businesses.
Responsibilities
- Take overall responsibility for the management of business rates across the portfolio.
- Manage the relationship with external business rates consultants, valuers and other professional advisors.
- Manage and monitor business rates liabilities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Review rates assessments, bills and valuations and identify opportunities for savings and mitigation.
- Liaise with local authorities and the VOA on rating matters.
- Review and challenge assessments where appropriate, including appeals and reductions in rateable value.
- Monitor changes to business rates legislation, government policy and valuation methodology and assess their impact on the business.
- Provide expert business rates advice internally.
- Review the business rates implications of vacant properties, occupation changes, refurbishments and redevelopment.
- Maintain accurate business rates records and ensure relevant property and rating data is up to date.
- Monitor expenditure and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the rates function.
- Prepare regular reports, forecasts and analysis for senior stakeholders.
- Support annual budgeting and forecasting for business rates expenditure.
- Identify risks and opportunities within the portfolio and proactively recommend and deliver solutions.
- Ensure appropriate governance and controls are in place around business rates management.
- Work collaboratively with Finance, Property Management, Asset Management, Leasing and other internal teams.
Requirements
- Significant experience in business rates within a commercial property environment.
- Strong understanding of the UK business rates system, including rateable values, multipliers, reliefs, appeals and billing.
- Experience working with the Valuation Office Agency and local authorities.
- Experience managing external consultants and professional advisors.
- Experience managing business rates appeals and negotiations.
- Experience of working through changes to the UK business rates regime.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to interrogate large datasets and identify anomalies or opportunities.
- Experience working with property, finance and asset management teams.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex rates issues clearly to non-specialists.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities across a large portfolio.
- A proactive approach, with the confidence to challenge existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strong attention to detail and a high level of commercial awareness.
- Experience working within a large commercial property portfolio (Desirable).
- Relevant professional qualification or membership (Desirable).
- Experience with property management or business rates software and large property datasets (Desirable).
Skills
- UK business rates technical knowledge
- Commercial property portfolio management
- UK business rates system understanding
- Valuation Office Agency liaison
- Local authority liaison
- Business rates appeals and negotiations
- Analytical skills
- Numerical skills
- Data interrogation
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Proactive approach
- Attention to detail
- Commercial awareness
- Property management software (Desirable)
- Business rates software (Desirable)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Experienced
About the Company
- The Arch Company is one of the UK’s largest owners of commercial property, managing a unique portfolio of railway arches and associated properties across the country.
- Our properties provide space for thousands of businesses across a diverse range of sectors, from independent retailers and creative businesses to logistics, automotive and industrial occupiers.
- We're passionate about creating places where businesses can thrive. Through proactive investment, expert asset management and a long-term approach, we're helping thousands of SMEs grow, invest and succeed in some of the UK's most distinctive commercial spaces.