accountant Leicester, England
Job description
Job reference: 000694
Salary: £35,000 per annum, increasing to £37,000 upon successful completion of your probation
Location: Hybrid - Case House, Surrey or Bede Island, Leicester
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 35
A little bit about what we are looking for...
We have recently merged 2 departments to support our expanding strategic focus on customers whilst creating new structures to support initiatives and offer succession planning and support for employees. As such we are looking for a new Assistant Service Charge Accountant to support this.
As the Assistant Service Charge Accountant, you will be working as part of a team with responsibility for the financial management of service charge income and costs. Working with the Service Charge Accountant and Service Charge Officers, assisting Budget Holders and the Home Budget Team to ensure all costs are correctly accounted for in our accounting and service charge systems and allocated to estates. With preparation of service charge budget estimates and year end statements.
We are happy to offer hybrid working with this role; You will be required to be in the office for around 2/3 days per week with the rest being from home, however please bear in mind we may need you to be in the office more within your probation and training. It's important to us that you feel fully ready and confident in the role before working from home. Of course if you'd prefer to be in the office more, then that is completely fine with us too!
This role can be also based at our Case House office, in Walton-on-Thames.
Your responsibilities...
- Responsibility for ensuring total service charge costs are reviewed on a regular basis and perform regular reviews of total service charge costs and work with other internal teams to ensure effective management of costs
- Assist the Service Charge Accountant with monthly accounting processes including journal entry, accruals and prepayments and reconciliations to ensure ledgers reflect operational performance. Investigate variances, prepare forecasts and report accordingly providing commentary to the management accounts team
- Prepare and review the annual cost budgets aggregating individual costs. Ensure overall costs are in line with contracts in place
- Preparation of core reconciliations
- Provide adhoc data analysis with commentary to support decision making
- Identify and resolve root cause issues to promote strong financials and data cleansing
- Support/drive the cyclical workload for budgets and year end statements to ensure deadlines are met
- Production of annual budgets on a scheme by scheme basis using the Service Charge Management System. Use analytical tools, knowledge and
- review of previous charges to ensure accuracy and the full recovery of costs
- Production of year end statements for variable service charges. Review of costs and liaison with other teams to calculate yearend adjustments. Working with auditors as required, updating tenant accounts, and mailing of information to residents
- Become proficient in Bluebox to ensure core deliverables can be met
- Maintain and develop a process for the service charge management system to ensure all new properties are entered in a timely fashion
- Develop and maintain an action log to ensure the continued development of Bluebox
- Develop systems and processes to ensure the team are working efficiently and effectively in delivery the outcomes
- Assist the team in problem solving and investigation into issues
We recommend you read the full job description to get a really good understanding of what the role entails, you can find this as a downloadable attachment at the bottom of the advert.
Our ideal candidate...
- Experience of working in a service charge finance team within the social housing or private sector
- Experience of working in a finance environment with strict deadlines and in a highly regulated environment
- Experience of preparing management information KPI’s
- Knowledge service charges legislation, setting, and accounting
- Knowledge of the social housing regulatory framework as it applies to financial accounting
- Part qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant
AGENCIES: We know where you are if we need your support so please do not contact us.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35,000.00-£37,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leicester
About PA Housing
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 501 to 1000 Employees
Type: Non-profit Organisation
Website: https://www.pahousing.co.uk/
