Service Charge Assistant
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United Kingdom - England - Southampton -
Job Description
Assistant to join our busy Service charge team.
Reporting to a Service Charge Team Leader, you will be responsible for ensuring all client work assigned to you is dealt with promptly, to a consistently high standard whilst meeting deadlines and within budget.
Summary of Key Tasks
- Maintaining excellent client relationships.
- Controlling and taking ownership of service charge accounts and audits for clients assigned to you.
- Planning, reviewing and finalizing of Service Charge Audits / Accounts Preparation
- assignments including preparation, approval and monitoring of budgets, considered review of trainees’ work, finalization of service charge statements and presentation of files to Service
- Charge Manager / Director for review.
- Ensuring that Service Charge Audit / Accounts adjustments are agreed by client and there after processed through the clients accounting system.
- Monitoring budgets and understanding commercial aspects (billing and collection).
- Supervising and coaching trainees.
A competitive salary is on offer, dependent on knowledge, skills and experience. We also offer a number of benefits including pension, holiday and life assurance.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
The successful candidate will: Ideally have experience in accountancy practice/service charge accounting. Be client focused and commercially aware with the ability to deliver work to a high standard, to tight deadlines and to budget. Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build rapport at all levels internally and externally. Demonstrate good excel skills. Be a quick learner who pays attention to detail.