Service Charge Accountant
- Recruiter
- Hays Senior Finance
- Location
- England, Essex
- Salary
- £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 11 Oct 2019
- Closes
- 18 Oct 2019
- Ref
- 3693607
- Contact
- Claire Evans
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant
- Category
- Property / Housing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Service Charge Accountant required for growing business in Harlow
Your new company
Well established and growing local business
Your new role
- Preparation of Service charge accounts to ensure the accounts are issued within 3 months of the year end or in accordance with client expectations
- Preparation of Dormant and Full Statutory accounts
- Quarterly reporting to the Clients Board of directors
- Analytical review of Income, Expenditure and Cash flow
- Preparation and completion of CT and VAT returns to HMRC when applicable
- Preparing trial balance reports
- Answering audit queries
- Maintaining the service charge year-end control sheets
- Resolving any audit queries with the Property Managers
- Ensuring that ledger balances are understood and supported
- Chasing and liaising with external auditors for any outstanding accounts and agreeing draft accounts with clients
- Issuing S20B letters where accounts have not been issued within 6 months from year-end
- Compiling packs of financial reporting and sending to prestigious clients on a monthly and quarterly basis in accordance with client expectations
- Maintaining the production of Landlord/Freeholder statements and arranging the forwarding of funds to clients
- Attend client meetings with the property management team when required to review actual expenditure for the year to date against budget
- To accurately vouch all receipts and payments and re-analyse into relevant accounts/cost centres where applicable
- Preparation of Service charge budgets
What you'll need to succeed
Working within a professional team, the ideal candidate will either hold, or be studying towards ACCA/CIMA (full AAT will be considered), and must have excellent Excel and double entry skills, along with Property / Service charge accounting experience. It is essential that the ideal candidate has good attention to detail, the ability to provide accurate and high-quality output and proven customer focus skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
What you'll get in return
£35-40,000 + Benefits
What you need to do now
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