Butler Rose is working with one of the largest housing associations in London and the south-east in their search for a Service Charge Officer to join their Places & Estates directorate. This is a temp role till 31st March 2025 with hybrid working in London and will pay upto £29.24/hour to the successful candidate.
The role focuses on service charge projects, specifically targeting large scheme or complex SVC (Service Charge) accounting. The successful candidate will have a strong background in managing and reconciling service charge accounts and will work alongside key stakeholders, including the Estate Operations Manager, to review and finalise historic accounts.
Duties:
- You will lead on the projects & be accountable for working through a defined number of service charge accounts that have been issued a Section 20b and seeing them through to audit and delivery within the 6-month period.
- You will also review any complaints and queries from residents to service charge accounts that have already been served.
- You will support the Estate Operations Manager with engaging with residents and responding to any queries, documenting any decisions and lessons learnt.
Ideal candidate will have:
- Significant experience of working compliantly with varying service charge regimes (variable), on large mixed tenure schemes.
- Significant experience of analysing and working through complex service charge accounts with ability to reconcile.
- Great problem-solving skills, able to work with stakeholders to get to a decision or outcome.
- Significant experience of analysing complex data and ability to present analysis to stakeholders to make business decisions.
- Significant experience of reading and understanding tenancy agreements & leases.
- Good knowledgeable on the RICS service charge residential code and ICAEW tech 03/11 and how to apply them.
- Good grasp of the Landlord and Tenant Act (1985), particularly around reasonableness (section 19) of costs.
- Track record in delivering projects and meeting outcomes within set deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to explain service charge information in plain English to residents.
- Ideally, AIRPM or TPI Leasehold Management qualification.
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Please call or email Cerys Kirby Thirlwell for further information.
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