THIS ROLE HAS A BASE SALARY TO £35,000 plus a 10% pension & up to 10% bonus - Total package value up to £42,000 plus benefits.

Anthony Cole Associates are pleased to be partnering with a nationwide Property / Real Estate organisation that supply essential services to the country. An exciting newly created opportunity has arisen to recruit an Assistant Accountant to join their team ASAP. This will be a challenging but highly rewarding role that will offer a hybrid work pattern, however the ability to travel to the client’s main offices in London / The Midlands / The Northwest or one of the 300 buildings located nationally 2 days a week is required.

This post holder will be a member of the Management Accounts team reporting to the Finance Manager, working closely with the Management Accounts and Property Finance Managers to answer queries. The role requires extensive use of excel, Oracle, Sage and Unit4 to enable interrogation of data to answer queries and a good understanding of budgeting for property services and cost recovery. You will liaise with internal and external customers as required. Analyse Oracle/Sage to create meaningful and insightful information.

As a member of the wider team the post holder will also be required to assist in other daily finance functions as required and will provide cover in the event of other members of the team being on leave.

Role Responsibilities:-

Finance Query Resolutions

Billing
Occupancy changes
Gathering invoice backing
Bookable
GP VAT Credits
Unavailability Credits
True -Ups Processing:
Sales Invoice/Credit Requests
Adjustment journals related to Finance Queries Reporting
Analysis and Reporting on finance related queries
Managing finance queries, with the use of JIRA ticketing system

Other

Assisting with wider Management Accounts team
Assisting with other areas of finance
E.g. Balance Sheet investigation of aged items.
Assisting in Budget, True Up Process

Communication

To respond to queries professionally and timely.
Communicating proactively within the finance team and the wider company as necessary.
Interacting with other departments as required resolving property accounting queries.
Interact with our internal and external customers.
Participate in finance and property team events as required (along with other team members).

Development

Participate in all aspects of continuous improvement to processes.
Develop and maintain a fit for purpose control environment.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the property and finance staff and customers (tenants and Commissioners).

Knowledge & Experience Required:-

A part-qualified accountant.
Proven track record in accounting and finance.
Competent excel user (Pivot tables, v-lookups etc..)
Evidence of on-going continuous professional development.
High level numeracy and literacy.
Ability to pay rigorous attention to detail.
Able to readily understand new and complex subjects.
Background / experience within the Property Management sector would be highly desirable