Service Charge Accountant - London

Service Charge Accountant - London

Seeking a Service Charge Accountant for a 12-month contract within a Real Estate business based in Central London. In this role you will oversee the financial management, prepare and manage service charge budgets, reporting, finance business partnering and year end accounting support.

Day to day property accounting:

• Manage all financial matters affecting the properties.
• 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.
• Actively seek improvements to the procedures within the department.
• Issues resolved or escalated on a timely basis.
• 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.
• Liaise with the accounts payable team and the property accountant's team to resolve any outstanding service charge void invoices.

Supporting the surveying and site teams:

• 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 in accordance with RICS guidelines.
• Assist with any occupier queries.
• Support with ad-hoc reports as required.

About you:

• Property accounting experience, including RICS service charge.
• Comfortable taking on responsibility, whilst being effective working collaboratively.
• Quick learner, process improvement mindset, with strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent IT skills - Excel and Word and ideally Qube or similar.

To be considered for the role, candidates must be available to start the role immediately.