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Service Charge Accountant
Location: Essex
Hours: Monday - Friday 9-5:30pm - can offer flexi-hours
Reports to: Service Charge Accounts Manager
Fantastic company benefits!
Job Summary
Preparation of Client Service Charge Accounts, query resolution, preparing accounting data for external accountants, and analysing handover information.
- Preparation of Client Service Charge Accounts within deadlines and in accordance with industry regulations.
- Preparation of Client Reports within SLA deadlines.
- To file statutory returns with Companies House.
- Query resolution.
- Preparing accounting data for external accountants.
- Analysing handover information.
Responsibilities & Duties
This is varied role which will be responsible for all aspects of service charge including but not limited to:
- Reviewing and processing movements of expenditures between Cost Centres
- Reviewing and processing prepayments and accruals at Service Charge Year End Reconciliation
- Auditing income for the year ensuring leaseholders have been charged correctly
- Preparing service charge calculations including balance sheet reconciliation and detailed analysis of P&L accounts
- Posting deficit/surplus for the year and issuing demands
- Issuing Section 20b where applicable
- Ensuring Information provided by external agents is accurate and ensuring income and expenditure is correctly recorded within data system
- Ensuring the filing system for financial data is both accurate and orderly
- Working as part of a team to support the manager and property accounting side
- Preparing monthly and or quarterly reporting
- Answering financial / administrative questions
- Processing property standing information onto the company's data system
- Preparing financial information for the processing of sales / acquisition of property
- Establish and maintaining relationships with key clients and external accountants
- Preparation of service charge accounts and client reports for key client and complex sites
- Maintaining excellent communication with the other business departments
Qualifications & Skills
- Knowledge of residential property management and preparation of service charge accounts.
- Service Charge Accounts experience with knowledge of the changes in the industry.
- Relevant commercial property and service charge accounting experience, ideally with a solid working knowledge of a property system - QUBE, YARDI, MRI, TRAMPS etc and will have conversancy with related property terminology and reporting requirements.
- Natural attention to detail with strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work to deadlines is essential.
- Self motivated and proactive thinking
- Team player able to work under pressure and multi task
Desired
- Experience preparing residential service charge accounts
- Ability to analyse complex data to produce reports and deliver information to a range of audiences
- Strong interpersonal and communicative skills are essential for this role
- A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, AAT etc.) would be advantageous
- Excellent Excel skills including pivot tables and understanding of vlookup
- Working knowledge of property management systems.
- Ability to adapt to new IT systems
Jackson Sims Recruitment, specialists in Real Estate, covering Block & Estate Management, Property Management (AST), Build to Rent (BTR), Facilities Management, Concierge, PBSA and Financial & Accounting Services, operating in London and throughout the UK. Should you be a candidate or client working in Real Estate, we have a multitude of recruitment services that can be tailored to you.
