Senior Service Charge Accountant. OUR CLIENT is well known and successful SME real estate consultancy operating in the most desired London areas for a few decades. Now they have a new position for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Service Charge Accountant to join their team with opportunity in the future to take more responsibilities including managing / leading junior colleagues.
THE ROLE: The duties for the Senior Service Charge Accountant:
- Preparing the service charge financial and management accounting reports and including budget vs actuals.
- Ensuring the service charge accounts ledgers are maintained to a high standard.
- Identifying, calculating and entering accruals, prepayment and adjustment journals.
- Performing variance analysis.
- Calculating the billing and reconcile non budgeted utility and insurance re-charges.
- Ensuring supplier accounts are reconciled.
- Working with the Property Managers to set annual service charge budgets.
- Setting up new buildings and reconciling new buildings data.
- Liaising with external accountants to see the accounts through the certification / audit.
- Assisting the service charge accounts administrators and taking over more technical queries and tasks.
THE PERSON and SKILLS REQUIREMENTS for the Service Charge Accountant role:
- Excellent double-entry bookkeeping skills are essential.
- Must have a proven track record of producing year-end service charge accounts ideally for residential portfolio.
- Will be tech savvy and have experience of using a property system
- Capable of preparing the regular reporting requirements of property managers and clients.
- Skilled at checking, documenting and amending accounting ledgers to see them through their external certification / audit process.
- Motivated, able to and willing to take more responsibility.
BENEFITS including:
- Career growth opportunities.
- Pension.
- Study support.
Please note this is an office based role