£39000 - £42000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Control and responsibility for large volume of client money
- Ensuring timely completion of all daily, weekly, monthly, and annual accounts processes
- Awareness of and ensuring adhesion to the regulatory frameworks
- Where appropriate, developing department systems to improve efficiency and satisfy expectations of clients and leaseholders
- Control and maintenance of property management database (Qube) - non-IT tasks
- Recruitment and training of staff
- Other general duties will be associated with the position
- Assist and support accounts team in resolving problems and difficulties
- Problem-solving skills and ability to tackle and resolve a wide range of issues both accounting and process based
- Ability to manage accounts staff
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients, and leaseholders
- Excellent technical accounting skills with the ability to achieve the following after training:
- Monthly reconciliation of all client money held between ledger and bank accounts, agree all control accounts
- Ability to assess the accounting requirements of new properties and ensure an appropriate structure is set up
- Reconciling funds received from previous managing agents
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- A good standard of education is essential
- Excellent communication skills - written, and verbal, presentation of information
- Good knowledge of Excel
- Knowledge of Qube is preferred
- At least five years' experience of accounting within the property sector preferred
- Accountable - a willingness to systematically and diligently ensure that essential tasks are achieved on time
- Thorough - with excellent attention to detail
- Committed - take pride in your own work and care about your own, and your team's, performance
- Organized - with the ability to plan and priorities
- Positive - project an optimistic, can-do attitude
Reference no: 107068