Property Accountant - Permanent - Canary Wharf
Hours: 40 per week, 08.30am - 17.30pm Monday to Friday
Role & Responsibilities
To support the Senior Property Accountant in maintaining the accounting records for their appointed schemes
To carry out all basic accounting procedures to ensure that financial information is accurate and available on a timely basis.
To interact with all stakeholders outside of the department in a professional manner
Advising Property Directors on any accounting issues associated with annual service charge budgets and to assist as required in the production, distribution and processing of budgets
To check that all properties, units and tenant details are correctly held on the property management system.
To update and change any Service charge or Ground rent amounts relating to Property transfers and sales.
To prepare monthly ground rent returns for submission to Freehold clients.
To draft monthly service charge income and expenditure reports for the Senior Property Accountant to discuss with the Property Directors
To draft the monthly variance analysis reports and highlight any areas of budgetary anomalies
To process journals reallocating expenditure as necessary
To support the on-site development teams with Propman system and purchase order best practice, invoice coding, expense forms and requests for payment.
Oversee the completion of bank reconciliations on a monthly basis for all designated schemes.
To support the on-site development teams with Propman system and purchase order best practice, invoice coding, expense forms and requests for payment.
To support the work of the purchase ledger team through obtaining payment runs for approval by the Senior Property accountant.
Dealing with daily transactions for on-site petty cash and ensure that returns are properly authorised and coded.
To monitor development scheme cashflow and forecasting at least 12 months ahead.
Bill periodic ground rent, service charges, insurance and other charges to lessees or occupiers.
Bill directly recoverable charges to lessees/occupiers.
Assist with the service charge audit review at year end and check for all invoices against expenditure before passing to the external accountants.
Send out service charge accounts to leaseholders once completed along with all relevant information
Skills & Experience
Must have at least 3 years' experience of managing service charge accounting.
Must be part qualified ACA, ACCA, AAT and actively working towards a professional qualification, or qualified by experience
Must be interested in the property management sector and be able to engage with colleagues in an effective manner and support colleagues as required.
Must be competent with accounting software packages and knowledge of property management software would be an advantage
Good Excel skills required.
We operate as an equal opportunities employer.
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