Property Accountant - London

Seeking a Property Accountant for a 12-month fixed term contact within a real estate business based in Central London. Your responsibilities will include overseeing highly desirable properties and ability to work effectively with various stakeholders across the business, including the site team, surveyors, and wider finance.

Responsibilities:

• Manage of all financial matters affecting the properties.
• Produce month end management accounts, including vat, bank, and control account reconciliations.
• All balances understood monthly, specifically the rent, service charge and direct recovery funds
• Cashflow management for each property to ensure suppliers can be paid.
• Service charge compliance review
• Raise income demands in accordance with internal timetables.
• Actively seek improvements to the procedures within the department.
• Provide ad hoc reports and help set up new sites as required
• Work with the property accounting team and wider finance team, to achieve departmental targets and deadlines
• Prepare quarterly accounts for the management companies and reconcile any differences.
• Liaise with the accounts payable team and the property accountant's team to resolve any outstanding service charge void invoices.

Ideal Profile:

• Property accounting experience, including RICS service charge
• Ability to communicate confidently with accountants and non-accountants.
• Quick learner, process improvement mindset, with strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent IT skills- excel and word and ideally Qube or similar

To be considered for the role, candidates must be available to start the role immediately.

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