Fantastic opportunity for an experienced Administrator to join our client, a successful property company based in Beaconsfield.
A background in finance isn't essential but this could be a great role for someone looking to develop their career down the accounts/finance route! In this busy and varied role, the Finance Administrator is responsible for all the utilities administration across the property portfolio, plus accounts admin, purchase ledger and billing support.
Salary is up to £30,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits. This is an office based role Monday to Friday.
Duties include
- Register utility invoices and checking through incomplete, rejected and held invoices and managing through to payment
- Update and maintain the utility spreadsheet for meter readings, usage, queries, contracts, billing dates, change of tenancies
- Manage tenant utilities recharges
- Liaise with utility suppliers, manage supplier statements and apply for credits/refunds
- Utility contracts: Manage, maintain and liaise with broker
- Utilities administration: Manage meter reads and change of tenancies
- Investigating high usage properties to reduce energy consumption
- Ensure timely and accurate payment of business rates and council tax instalments
- Registering and reconciling utilities, rates and council tax direct debits
- Managing the PL for certain key supplier accounts and supporting PL as cover
- Billing and receipting support
- Coding and posting journals
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Bank reconciliation for utilities account
- Audit support preparation
Skills/Experience
- Experience in a similar role would be ideal but not essential (must have excellent admin skills)
- Excellent numeracy and accuracy
- IT literate with excellent Excel skills (strong at manipulating and structuring data)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Adaptable working style
- Team player
- Ability to work autonomously
- Organised and capable of coordinating cross departmental processes
- Self-motivated
Please note that we will only contact those candidates that we assess as suitable for the positions we have currently available based on their experience, training, and skills. If we do not have anything suitable, we will not keep your CV for more than 30 days.
As an equal opportunity employer, Bucks and Berks Recruitment is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.