Client Accountant/Accounts Assistant

Client Accountant/Accounts Assistant - Residential Lettings Our Client is an established estate agent and has been operating in the property sector for over 40 years. They cover high-end locations in and around London. They are currently looking for a Client Accountant/Accounts Assistant to join their Lettings Accounting team. The Accounts Assistant will be reporting to a Senior Client Accountant/Team Leader.

The Role will include:

• Inputting supplier invoices into the accounting system, posting them to the correct account.
• Liaising with the relevant members and ensuring supplier invoices are paid promptly by the landlords.
• Performing monthly account statement reconciliation.
• Ensuring the required funds are available in the specified landlord account.
• Investigating any discrepancies between payments made to suppliers and funds reclaimed from client accounts.
• Ensuring that the supplier payments have been authorised and submitted on the company banking system.
• Generating and issuing remittance advices to suppliers following completion of the supplier payment run in line with company procedure.
• Reconciling the TDS Statement on receipt.
• Processing cheques received on the company accounting system on a daily basis.
• Reconciling monthly statements and investigating any outstanding.
• Printing and signing off tenant referencing invoices.
• Preparing and analysing the Rent Recovery Policy charges, investigating and obtaining a resolution of any discrepancies in line with company procedures.

The Person must be working in another estate agency in the capacity of a Lettings Accounts Assistant/Client Accountant and is an experienced user of Excel (proficient in v-lookups and pivot tables). The incumbent will have experience and knowledge of various legislations around handling client monies. The candidate will be able to work well in a fast paced environment and is able to accurately process large volumes of documents, within tight deadlines whilst remaining vigilant to anomalies and discrepancies. It will also be highly advantageous if the successful candidate will have experience of property management software such as CML, CFP or Vebra. The right candidate will have excellent communication skills, both by email and on telephone.

Please note that due to volume we cannot get back to everyone, however every application is looked at and considered and will be held on Trident International's database for review. If you have not heard back from us within 5 working days you should assume your initial application has been unsuccessful, however if suitable roles arise in the future we will make every effort to contact you.