Head of Accounts - Property
Salary: £30k - £32k + company benefits
Location: Burgess Hill (office based)
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 17.30pm
Free off-street parking
My client is looking for a proactive, hardworking and diligent head of Accounts to lead the block management accounts team of four, to manage their workflow and ensure deadlines are met.
You will have a proven background in managing a small team with experience in a property management accounts role, ideally block is preferred. You will enjoy a challenge and be a natural problem solver with the ability to motivate and get the best out of your team.
Responsibilities:
- Managing a small team, delegating workloads and ensuring deadlines are met.
- Implementing new procedures and systems to maximise efficiency.
- Raising and sending service charge and ground rent invoices monthly & quarterly
- Bank Reconciliation.
- Working with the external accountants to prepare year end accounts.
- Assisting the property managers with budgets, debtors and credit control.
- Dealing with escalated accounts-based queries and ensuring clients are responded to in a timely manner.
- Working alongside the Head of Block management to ensure the smooth running of the department.
- Financial reporting.
- Interviewing, recruitment and onboarding new employees.
- Coaching, mentoring your team to reach their full potential.
The right candidate will have the following skills and experience to apply:
- Proven experience of managing finance team.
- Ideally AAT Level 3 qualified or QBE.
- A natural problem solver with the ability to troubleshoot and make process and system amendments to improve efficiency.
- Background in accountancy, bookkeeping and ideally the property industry.
- Great IT skills inclusive of Excel, using accountancy software, and property CRM system Qube would be an advantage.
- Confident communicator, with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
- Strong team player with a great work ethic.
If you want to join a fantastic team who get on really well but need some leadership and feel you can have a positive impact on the business, please send your CV ASAP!