Senior Service Charge Accountant

Senior Service Charge Accountant. OUR CLIENT is well known and successful SME real estate consultancy operating in the most desired London areas for a few decades. Now they have a new position for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Service Charge Accountant to join their team with opportunity in the future to take more responsibilities including managing / leading junior colleagues. THE ROLE: The duties for the Senior Service Charge Accountant: * Preparing the service charge financial and management accounting reports and including budget vs actuals. * Ensuring the service charge accounts ledgers are maintained to a high standard. * Identifying, calculating and entering accruals, prepayment and adjustment journals. * Performing variance analysis. * Calculating the billing and reconcile non budgeted utility and insurance re-charges. * Ensuring supplier accounts are reconciled. * Working with the Property Managers to set annual service charge budgets. * Setting up new buildings and reconciling new buildings data. * Liaising with external accountants to see the accounts through the certification / audit. * Assisting the service charge accounts administrators and taking over more technical queries and tasks. THE PERSON and SKILLS REQUIREMENTS for the Service Charge Accountant role: * Excellent double-entry bookkeeping skills are essential. * Must have a proven track record of producing year-end service charge accounts ideally for residential portfolio. * Will be tech savvy and have experience of using a property system * Capable of preparing the regular reporting requirements of property managers and clients. * Skilled at checking, documenting and amending accounting ledgers to see them through their external certification / audit process. * Motivated, able to and willing to take more responsibility. BENEFITS including: * Career growth opportunities. * Pension. * Study support. Please note this is an office based role 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. By applying for this job, you accept the Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website. To learn more about our company and vacancies we are currently working on, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn