account manager Manchester, England
Job description
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X1 Manchester – Finance Account Manager
Are you ready to join an exciting, fast paced, multi award winning property
management company as part of our Finance Team? This is an opportunity to learn
and develop your understanding of the property industry whilst contributing to the
continued business success and growth at X1.
Welcome to X1
X1 is a dynamic and highly successful Property Management company, established
in Liverpool in 2011. After exciting business growth we have gone from strength to
strength and now operate offices in Liverpool, Manchester in 2014, Leeds in 2017,
and Kent in 2020. We pride ourselves as a multi-award winning company which
provides a high quality rental experience whilst building strong and lasting
relationships with our tenants and landlords alike. Company growth has continued in
2023 with 2 new residential sites launched already and 2 more sites due to launch at
the end of the year, and the X1 team is growing rapidly to support this.
Our Values
Our values of Quality; Teamwork; Accountability; Flexibility; Compliance and Fun are
at the heart of our culture and the way we do things and essential to our sustained
success.
The Role
This role is ideal for an outgoing, personable and level headed candidate who is
keen to learn about block management and service charge within the residential and
student property industry.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Assisting the block management team to produce an annual service charge
budget for each building within their portfolio, estimating with due care the
total running costs associated,
Calculate and produce service charge invoices for each leaseholder to be
issued in a timely manner.
Producing monthly income & expenditure reports for their portfolio of buildings
to review with the block management team, highlighting any significant
variances between forecasted and actual expenditure.
Working closely with the lettings team & payments team to ensure collection
of service charge payments from all managed leaseholders.
Produce weekly arrears reports to highlight service charge debt across
leaseholders within their portfolio.
Raise payments for contractors and suppliers to ensure service charge costs
are paid in a timely manner.
Liaise with internal staff and external leaseholders to discuss any queries
relating to service charge.
Produce comprehensive commentary on budgets and financial reports to give
clarity on the building expenditure to internal management and external
leaseholders.
What you will bring:
Ideally, the successful candidate will have:
Strong Excel skills- A keen interest in maths, accounting and financial analysis.
- Excellent written and spoken communication
- Highly organised and able to use own initiative
- Great attention to detail
- A personable character who can easily build good relationships with internal
colleagues and external clients.
- A positive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Professionalism in both attitude and personal presentation
You will be based in our Manchester office.
Department - Finance
Contract type - Permanent
Salary - £19,000 - £24,000 per annum
Hours - 9.30am - 5.00pm Monday to Thursday, 9.30am - 4.30pm Friday
Benefits - 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an investment in your on-going
training and development.
