Service Charge Assistant Accountant

Service Charge Assistant Accountant

One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle, Hybrid working

Permanent full time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday

Salary £26,400 to £29,858 negotiable based on skills and experience, plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!

 

Home, a place where you belong

Are you passionate about finance, not fazed by large amounts of data and have a great eye for detail? As a Service Charge Assistant Accountant, you will play a key role in ensuring our service charge accounts are produced on time and accurately to our customers.

After all, placing our customers are at the heart of everything we do, is just how we operate.

This is brand new and exciting role within our organisation so a fantastic opportunity to join us at the start of this journey in really making a difference to how we set and manage our service charges for our customers.

  

Typical day as a Service Charge Assistant Accountant


* Monitoring expenditure, preparing journals, and providing variance analysis. 


* Strong working relationships and collaboration with our Leasehold Team to understand how our schemes are set up and the services that we deliver.


* Interpreting and producing financial data into a customer friendly format that means we can demonstrate where our customers money goes.


* Highlighting areas for improvement, where we are under recovering our costs and help us to protect our income.


* Supporting operational colleagues to ensure expenditure is captured and coded correctly.


* Continuously improving processes to enhance our financial services. 

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK. 

You have


* Solid accounting knowledge, either through experience or qualifications such as AAT.


* Experience of social housing or property management service charges, including a robust knowledge of the legislation for the calculation and implementation of service charges.


* Strong proficiency with integrated financial systems and software like Excel in order to analyse large complex data sets.


* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clear, concise reports and deliver information to a range of audiences.


* Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to plan and prioritise your own workload.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review. 

Our team

You’ll be an integral part of both our Financial Reporting team, led by Emily, and our Leasehold team, led by Christine, ensuring brilliant collaboration between the two.  We are all super passionate about what we do and there is a great team spirit.  We all bring a great eye for detail, creative spark and passion for our roles.  We’re ...