Service Charge Accountant. OUR CLIENT is a professionally recognised chartered surveying firm that cover a large part of South East England. They offer various services to Investors/Owner and occupiers and handle both commercial and residential properties. They are currently looking for a passionate Service Charge Accountant to join their team.
THE ROLE to work as a Service Charge Accountant you will undertake below listed duties:
- Preparing and finalising the service charge accounts to be audited externally for commercial and residential properties.
- Liaising with managers to finalise the accounts and ensuring accounting requirements within the ARMA/RICS Code and tenants' leases are met.
- Ensuring excess service charge and accounts are reported to clients and tenants as appropriate.
- Ensuring appropriate fees are raised for the work carried out.
- Liaising with external accountants and ensuring any deadlines are met.
- Ensuring any excess service charges are issued to the tenants and clients.
- Analysing the expenditure for miscoding.
- Calculating any accruals and prepayments that may be needed.
- Ensuring timely approval and filing at Companies House where applicable.
- Liaising with Commercial Property Managers to ensure budgets for commercial properties are prepared, approved and issued to tenants in accordance with the RICS Code.
- Ensuring accurate expenditure figures are provided for the estimated year to date alongside the budgets as a comparison tool.
- Ensuring correct apportionment of budget charges in accordance with the leases.
- Providing support for the property managers and clients.
- Analysing the expenditure for miscoding.
THE PERSON: To apply, for this role as a Service Charge Accountant you will:
- Have previous experience in commercial or residential year-end service charge accounting.
- QUBE/YARDI or TRAMPS systems knowledge.
BENEFITS
- Hybrid working after 6 months.
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