£25000 - £45000 Per year
Bookkeeper
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Posting income and expenditure from bank statements.
- Reconciling service charge accounts.
- Paying contractor invoices.
- Raising periodic service charge demands and any other charges due and sending them to lessees
- Preparing income & expenditure reports and sending these to clients
- Preparation of annual service charge budgets, liaising with clients and Property Managers.
- Preparing service charge year end accounts
- Liaising with external accountants and agreeing draft accounts with clients
- Meeting deadlines on budgets, sending out charges and preparing year end accounts.
- Responding to and managing queries from leaseholders
- Supporting Property Managers with any account related queries
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Accountants
- Budgets
- Reports
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Well organized with good common sense.
- A friendly and polite approach to clients and a helpful attitude to colleagues.
- Previous experience in an accounts role essential.
- Previous experience in property accounting (rental, ground rent, service charges, etc) is preferable but not essential.
- The successful candidate would be working as part of a team but would have their own properties that they would be responsible for.
- This opportunity would ideally suit someone who is careful and numerate, with good computer skills and who enjoys taking tasks through to completion within a stated time frame.
- They would also need to be able to work on their own, taking full responsibility for their own properties, but with the support of the Head of Accounts and other colleagues when needed.
Reference no: 107323