Assistant Service Charge Accountant in Manchester - Osborn Executive Recruitment

The role: to support the preparation, administration, and reconciliation of service charge accounts across a portfolio of commercial properties. The role will ensure accuracy and compliance, working closely with the Service Charge Manager and the successful candidate will be methodical, motivated, flexible, and adaptable, with a strong desire to build a long-term career within an established and continually growing company. Initially, the role will

provide support to the Service Charge Manager in a variety of accounting and administrative tasks, with the intention that the successful candidate will progress to managing their own portfolio of properties over time.

Duties:

• Assist in responding to tenant, service charge consultant, and property manager queries
• Liaise with and assist property managers, asset managers, credit control/central accounts, and external auditors
• Raise utility and ad hoc invoices to tenants and landlords
• Check periodic invoices raised in line with budgets and within service charge caps
• Process service charge expenditure, journals, accruals, and prepayments
• Ensure costs are correctly allocated to cost centres and schedules
• Prepare income and expenditure reports ready for draft reconciliation and external audit
• Produce variance reports
• Assist in finalising annual service charge reconciliations, including producing service charge tenant packs
• Carry out ad hoc duties within the property accounts/property management team

Requirements:

• 3 years as an Accounts Assistant or Assistant Client Accountant /Service Charge Accountant
• Prior property accounting experience preferred.
• An understanding of how to complete bank reconciliations.
• Strong Excel – understanding formulae and formatting
• Good personality with a strong work ethic.

Why should you work for this company?

• An excellent opportunity for growth
• Fantastic bonus potential
• Study Package available

Interview process:

• Two stage process
• 1st stage on Teams/Zoom
• 2nd stage held face to face in the office