Service Charge Accountant

Service Charge Accountant. OUR CLIENT is a professionally recognised chartered surveying firm that cover a large part of South East England. They offer various services to Investors/Owner and occupiers and handle both commercial and residential properties. They are currently looking for a passionate Service Charge Accountant to join their team.

THE ROLE to work as a Service Charge Accountant, you will undertake below listed duties:

• Preparing and finalising the service charge accounts to be audited externally for commercial and residential properties.
• Liaising with managers to finalise the accounts and ensuring accounting requirements within the ARMA/RICS Code and tenants' leases are met.
• Ensuring excess service charge and accounts are reported to clients and tenants as appropriate.
• Ensuring appropriate fees are raised for the work carried out.
• Liaising with external accountants and ensuring any deadlines are met.
• Ensuring any excess service charges are issued to the tenants and clients.
• Analysing the expenditure for miscoding.
• Calculating any accruals and prepayments that may be needed.
• Ensuring timely approval and filing at Companies House where applicable.
• Liaising with Commercial Property Managers to ensure budgets for commercial properties are prepared, approved and issued to tenants in accordance with the RICS Code.
• Ensuring accurate expenditure figures are provided for the estimated year to date alongside the budgets as a comparison tool.
• Ensuring correct apportionment of budget charges in accordance with the leases.
• Providing support for the property managers and clients.
• Analysing the expenditure for miscoding.

THE PERSON: To apply, for this role as a Service Charge Accountant you will:

• Have previous experience in commercial or residential year-end service charge accounting.
• QUBE/YARDI or TRAMPS systems knowledge.

BENEFITS

• Hybrid working after 6 months.

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