Management Assurance Officer - London, United Kingdom - Ealing Council

Ealing Council

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Management Assurance Officer

Ealing Council are looking for motivated individual to be part of a team that is responsible for and deal with all aspects of Housing Benefit, Council tax reduction assurance checks.

The Management Assurance Team consists of 4 Management Assurance Officers plus a Senior Subsidy and Assurance Officer.

The team carry out quality assurance checks and undertake proactive measures, across all aspects of our work.

This includes determining the entitlement and award of benefits, ensuring accuracy, identifying fraud and error, maximising income and overpayment recovery for the authority and the reduction of loss to public funds.

You'll carry out and record daily checks on a range of benefit operations including defined pro-active checks on claims, prior to and after the payments and decisions on awards.

Ensure financial control tasks are carried within specified deadlines.

Working alongside staff and management within Financial Services you'll ensure compliance with relevant legislation and to identify financial, subsidy and administrative errors against regulations and agreed local policies and procedures.

You must have an extensive working knowledge of Housing Benefit legislation, including working knowledge of overpayments. You will have experience of the assessment of housing benefit and council tax reduction claims.

With a strong eye for detail, you'll have experience of examining information of complex complicated cases and be able to confidently communicate your findings.

You'll be analytical and methodical in your work, organised and be able to work under pressure to meet statutory and local timescales and deadlines.

For full details please see job description and job specification.