Position: Accounts Assistant
Location: Head Office – Chaneys Chartered Surveyors, Chiltern House, Marsack Street, Reading, RG4 5AP (office based)
Working Hours: 08:30 – 17:00, Monday - Friday
Salary: Competitive
About Chaneys Chartered Surveyors:
Established in 1959, Chaneys is a trusted property and asset management company serving the Thames Valley area for over 50 years. With a client-focused approach, professional expertise, and a Chartered status, we have earned a strong reputation. Our diverse clientele includes Management Companies, Resident Associations, Developers, and Landlords.
Chaneys Chartered Surveyors is part of the Trinity Property Group, an Odevo Group Company.
Benefits:
The company offers various benefits, including:
- 24 days annual leave for work-life balance.
- Discounts on shopping and services through Perkbox.
- Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support.
- Hybrid and flexible work opportunities.
- Financial support for personal development.
- Opportunities for career growth.
- Recognition incentives.
- Cycle to Work scheme for a healthy lifestyle.
- Employee Referral Scheme for potential bonuses.
Job Description:
The Accounts Assistant is responsible for providing essential accounting support across a range of accounting functions, daily receipting and allocating of payments, running demands for service charges, entering supplier invoices, dealing with customer accounting queries and carrying out regular administrative tasks.
Key responsibilities and tasks include:
- First point of contact for directed switchboard calls liaising with leaseholders dealing with payments, balance and general accounts queries.
- Download BACS report daily, posting onto the property management system against the appropriate tenant.
- Run monthly/quarterly/yearly service charge demands as applicable through the Propman reporting function.
- Create demand budget templates for portfolio, allowing the relevant property manager to complete accordingly.
- Upon receipt of a completed budget, print expenditure report and run demands for the Property Manager to approve and issue direct to client.
- Carry out tenant recharges, transferring funds to clients within strict deadlines.
- Investigate and trace missing payments upon request.
- Processing supplier payments through our batch BACS payment system, providing supplier remittances and filing of paid supplier invoices.
- Dealing with requests and queries from property managers
- To generally assist with all other accounts related activities where necessary
- Applying balancing charges and credits and issuing demands as necessary once the year end accounts are available.
- Collection of service charges from apartment owners. Arranging repayment plans where appropriate and liaising with third party debt collection agencies.
Qualifications and Skills:
Candidates for this position should have the following skills and qualifications:
- Ideally have experience in Service Charge Accounting and Property Management.
- At least 2 years' experience within an office environment.
- Experience within the finance/accountancy sector.
- An excellent communicator (written and oral).
- Personable, with a strength of character to deal with challenging suppliers whilst having a flexible approach to achieve business and/or client needs.
- Client focussed, organised, self-motivated, with ability to use own initiative and work to tight deadlines.
Application Process:
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK without restrictions, and documented evidence of eligibility will be required.
For further information, or to explore more opportunities, you can visit Chaneys Chartered Surveyors on LinkedIn or our website. If you have questions or would like more details, you can contact our recruitment team at , quoting the reference number #LI-EJ1.