Interim Rents & Service Charges Accountant

Goodman Masson are delighted to be working with a leading UK housing association who are currently growing their London based finance team in their search for a Rent & Service Charges Accountant.

This will be a vital role overseeing the end to end rent and service charges process in line with the tenancy agreements, with support from a dedicated Finance Administrator who will be reporting into you.

The ideal candidate will be AAT qualified with proven service charge experience preferably within social housing.

Core responsibilities:

• To lead the service charge function for all properties and leaseholder accounts.
• Responsible for all year-end service charge and rent calculations, ensuring that all calculations are appropriate and equitably applied and meeting the relevant deadlines.
• Prepare income and expenditure reports for leaseholders and sent to external accountant for final audit and sign off of service charge accounts
• Lead on leaseholder audits, resolving any queries arising.
• Production of estimated leaseholder service charges and calculation of actual expenditure adjustments, ensuring leaseholder accounts are appropriately updated
• Line management responsibility for the Finance Administrator supporting the service charge function.
• Manage all service charges expense nominals on a monthly basis to ensure correct invoice allocation and accruals.
• Manage and maintain the financial models used to prepare accurate charges.
• Responsible for the resolution of finance-based service charge queries
• Liaise with all relevant stakeholders; tenants, suppliers, management companies and internal departments to resolve service charge queries.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues across the business, to ensure accurate and correct data is included in all charges calculations.
• Arrange system updates and reconciliation of revised charges.
• Prepare any void and re let rent calculations resulting from tenancy changes.
• Prepare rent and service charges for new developments and handovers.

The person:

• AAT qualified preferred
• Experience within Service Charge in Social Housing
• Strong ability to work to deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.