accountant Hoddesdon, East of England, England
Job description
Service Charge Accountant
Hoddesdon
Permanent; 37.5 hours per week
Up to £35,000 per annum
RMG is already a market leader in the residential property management sector and we’re still growing. With this growth comes this career opportunity for a service charge accountant with private sector residential service charge accounting experience to join us a Client Accountant at our Hoddesdon office where you’ll be working alongside a great team of finance professionals.
Do you have the ability to undertake full preparation of Service Charge Accounts, core documents to trial balance and have the set of accounts ready for our external accountants to certify? If you do and are ready to hit the ground running, this is the role for you.
What will you be doing?
Client Accountants at RMG ensure the timely and accurate production of Service Charge Accounts including, liaising with auditors, Property Managers and Clients as needed.
- Prepare service charge accounts in accordance with current legislation and industry body requirements within 6 months of the year end.
- Liaise with all interested parties throughout the process to ensure queries are responded to in a timely way.
- Process any amendments following external and/or internal agreement between parties
- Meet all Service Level Agreements within stated deadlines.
- Take responsibility for the full preparation process even whilst not actively involved to ensure timely completion
What are we looking for?
- Previous experience preparing and reviewing residential service charge accounts.
- Medium to advanced user of MS Outlook, MS Excel and MS Word.
- Highly organised, forward thinking, taking a lateral approach to problem solving.
- Maintain high standards of professionalism, being always polite and courteous to both internal and external parties.
- Have a proven work ethic; striving to constantly improve personal performance while working towards team objectives.
- Demonstrate a consistent high level of customer service.
- Communicate in a well written and professional manner making sure all work is correctly formatted with grammar and spelling checked before being issued.
What do we offer?
You’ll not only be joining a market leader where you’ll benefit from working alongside the best in the industry, you’ll also receive a superb package of company benefits.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays and enjoy your Birthday off, on us!
- Ability to accrue additional holidays (subject to criteria)
- Life Assurance - 4 x basic salary
- Generous pension scheme with contributions matched up to 6 %
- Free Healthcare cashback Plan (re-claiming for things like optical treatment (plus an optical discount voucher) and dental care, physiotherapy and GP Charges – plus more! (all to a generous fixed amount), plus 24/7 access to remote GP Services
- Access to a whole host of discounts on gyms, retail, groceries, leisure, electronics and so much more!
- We really like to support our employees to develop in their career, so we provide Sponsorship for study and professional qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA, AAT and give up to 5 study days. We’ll also pay your annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Referral scheme with rewards up to £1,000 per referral
- Free and confidential access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly employee wellbeing initiatives
- Corporate Social Responsibility events throughout the year
- Two paid volunteer days per year
- On-site parking available
- And more…
Who are we?
Join RMG and you'll be joining one of the largest and most respected property management companies with a portfolio spanning over 127,000 households across the UK. We offer a range of job opportunities, from property management, finance, customer services, and everything in between, which makes us a great place to work.
And it doesn’t stop there. Every one of our employees has the opportunity to learn, develop and grow in their chosen career pathway and reach their potential.
With ongoing business growth we have a variety of career opportunities within our service charge accounts and finance function so if this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for, please get in touch to discuss other opportunities.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Hoddesdon: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
