Senior Service Charge Accountant

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