Service Charge Accountant Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Service Charge Accountant to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare Monthly Reports for Leasehold officers;
- Prepare monthly service charge accounts with relevant commentary;
- Year end account reconciliations;
- Hold monthly meetings to ensure expenditure is accurately coded;
- Preparing annual service charge budgets;
- Prepare audit files; organising and monitoring audit; dealing with audit queries;
- Responsible for month end & year end routines including balance sheet reconciliation for all managed properties;
- Issuing s20b letters where accounts have not been issues within 6 months from year-end;
- Compiling packs of financial reports and sending to the Directors quarterly;
- Resolving any pre audit queries with the Property Managers;
- Setting up new properties onto the system;
- Dealing with lessees and clients queries;
- Preparing account packs to send to auditors;
- Dealing with refund requests;
- Raising service charge demands.
Requirements:
- Able to improve efficiency and performance;
- Minimum of 2 years within block management accounts;
- Focused on the detail;
- Strong knowledge of Excel (at least to intermediate level);
- Ideally qualified or part qualified;
- Effective communicator;
- Experience of Propman system preferable but not essential;
- Minimum 2 years’ service charge experience.