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PROPERTY ACCOUNTANT

Financial Staffing Solutions
Posted 11 hours ago, valid for 8 days
Location

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE7 3HH, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client, a property investment group, is looking for an experienced Property Accountant with a background in service charge management.
  • The role requires at least 3 years of relevant experience and offers a salary of £45,000 to £55,000 per annum.
  • Responsibilities include producing month-end management accounts, cashflow management, and preparing quarterly accounts for management companies.
  • The ideal candidate should possess strong IT skills and be comfortable collaborating with non-accountants and other professionals.
  • This position provides a varied work experience and opportunities for career advancement within the finance team.

Our client, a property investment group is seeking an experienced Property Accountant to join their team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will ccomfortable taking on responsibility, whilst being effective working collaboratively with non accountants and other professional staff.

Duties will include:

  • Produce month end management accounts, including VAT, bank and control account reconciliations.
  • All balances understood monthly, specifically the rent, service charge and direct recovery funds
  • Cashflow management for each property to ensure suppliers can be paid.
  • Service charge compliance review
  • Raise income demands in accordance with internal timetables.
  • Provide ad hoc reports and help set up new sites as required
  • Work with the property accounting team and wider finance team, to achieve departmental targets and deadlines
  • Prepare quarterly accounts for the management companies and reconcile any differences.
  • Liaise with the accounts payable team and the property accountant’s team to resolve any outstanding service charge void invoices.
  • Produce the year end accounts and manage the service charge review process to ensure service charge packs are issued on time.
  • Support the site teams and surveyors providing financial guidance including quarterly service charge reviews, mid-year forecasts and ad- hoc queries.
  • Provide financial support to new initiatives and commercial projects
  • Assist with the production of the annual service charge budgets

Ideally you will have come from a property environment with service charge experience. Strong IT skills together with property management software is key to this role. This opportunity is varied and offers career enhancement.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.