Title: Senior Service Charge Accountant Location: North London/Hertfordshire £40-£45

Title: Senior Service Charge Accountant
Location: North London/Hertforshire
£40-£45

The role: Prepare and produce service charge accounts in a timely manner ensuring for a portfolio of residential blocks.

Duties:

• Service Charge Accounts: Prepare and produce service charge accounts in a timely manner ensuring the need for Section 20b for the late issuing of accounts is not required.
• Review and analyse financial transactions to ensure completeness and accuracy whilst resolving any balance sheet anomalies.
• Ensure any void units are billed appropriately to the Developers and are reflected correctly within the accounts.
• Work closely with the property management team and customers to gather and review information to ensure clear and transparent finance reporting.
• Attend meetings internally, with clients and external auditors during the accounts process in order to finalise service charge accounts.
• Prepare dormant and company accounts, and issue Trust Tax returns where necessary.
• Prepare monthly financial reports, energy reconciliations, including income statements, and cashflow monitoring adhering to RICS standards, ARMA Guidelines.
• Perform monthly accruals and prepayments to ensure expenses and receipts are recognised in the appropriate accounting period.
• Reconcile accounts and resolve any discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Assist in the analysis of service charge variances and cashflow
• Reconcile financial information from previous managing agents and to incoming agents ensuring data is reconciled and correctly reflected in systems, raising any gaps or concerns to management.
• Provide insights on financial performance and participate in budgeting and forecasting processes related to service charges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business objectives.
• Communicate financial information and or risk effectively to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Requirements:

• A large Property management system such as QUBE - ECS, MRI or Horizon, Tramps, Yardi etc
• Has experience is working within a finance team in the property sector
• Analyzing and interpreting financial reports •
• Studying towards an accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA)
• Intermediate Excel knowledge, using basic formulas, V-lookups and pivot tables
• Experience in accruals based accounting
• Good communication skills, written and verbal.
• Solution driven and forward thinking.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a financial role

Why should you work for this company?

• They are actively trying to be the best property management company in London
• Excellent career progression
• Great training and exposure to complex property accounting

Interview process:

• Two stage process
• 1st stage on Teams/Zoom
• 2nd stage held face to face in the office

If you would like further information on this opportunity please apply online with your updated CV.

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