Job Title: Accountant
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum, depending on experience
Job type: Full time, Permanent
The Company
Encore Property Management Group specialises in the ongoing management of large residential developments, including the effective administration of +£20m of client service charge budgets. Based in Cambridge and with offices in London, Sandhurst and Nottingham, we work across East Anglia, London, the Home Counties, the South and East Midlands, and have plans for further growth.
The Group also consists of separate Facilities Management and Legal businesses, employing over 200 people, all of whom pride themselves on a commitment to excellence and customer service.
The Role:
Our Service Charge Accounts team is growing and that is where you come in! You’ll be responsible for the effective client accounting of a portfolio of managed estates and will be a vital part of the team, working closely with the estate management team.
This is an exciting role within Encore which offers the opportunity to learn on the job through training and qualifications, through which you will be able to progress through the team.
Key duties
- Ensure annual service charge budgets are accurate and loaded correctly with correct apportionments
- Periodic billing of service charges, ground rent and other charges to leaseholders
- Prepare end of year service charge accounts within agreed timeframe, before submitting to external Accountants for review
- Monthly bank reconciliations for client estates
- Monitor the general health and correctness of the service charge accounts associated with your portfolio, supporting Estate Managers with relevant information
- Handle referred leaseholder service charge queries to resolution via either telephone or e-mail, or escalate to relevant Estate Manager
- Following up actions from AGM Minutes and Directors’ meetings
- Assist the Client Accounting team with day to day / adhoc duties
About you:
We are looking for a candidate that is either AAT qualified or part qualified, ideally with service charge accounting experience but this is not essential. You will have excellent time management skills and a go getter attitude!
If you feel you have the passion and drive to join an innovative company then please apply with your current CV and a brief covering letter detailing why you would be a great fit to the team.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Accountant, Accounts Clerk, Bookkeeper, Management Accountant, Management Accountancy, AAT, Cash Flow Reporting, Property Management Accountant may also be considered for this role.
