Job Description - Service Charge Assistant Accountant (241724)
Location: One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle, Hybrid working
Employment Type: Permanent full time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday
Salary: £26,400 to £29,858 negotiable based on skills and experience, plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!
Home, a place where you belong
Are you passionate about finance, not fazed by large amounts of data and have a great eye for detail? We have a sparkly, brand new role as a Service Charge Assistant Accountant, a new opportunity for you to shape as your own! We are looking for a real self-starter, who can think outside the box, to play a key role in ensuring our service charge accounts are produced on time and accurately for our customers.
Typical day as a Service Charge Assistant Accountant
1. Monitoring expenditure, preparing journals, and providing variance analysis.
2. Strong working relationships and collaboration with our Leasehold Team to understand how our schemes are set up and the services that we deliver.
3. Interpreting and producing financial data into a customer friendly format that means we can demonstrate where our customers' money goes.
4. Highlighting areas for improvement, where we are under recovering our costs and help us to protect our income.
5. Supporting operational colleagues to ensure expenditure is captured and coded correctly.
6. Continuously improving processes to enhance our financial services.
You have
1. Solid accounting knowledge, either through experience or qualifications such as AAT.
2. Experience of social housing or property management service charges, including a robust knowledge of the legislation for the calculation and implementation of service charges.
3. Strong proficiency with integrated financial systems and software like Excel in order to analyse large complex data sets.
4. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clear, concise reports and deliver information to a range of audiences.
5. Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to plan and prioritise your own workload.
Job details
1. Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you).
2. You’ll manage your own diary, so if you need to work from home to take delivery of your new fridge or take a longer lunch for a haircut, you can use your flexi time to manage that!
3. This is a hybrid role, and you’ll spend 2 days in the office, 3 days working at home.
4. Able to use technology for producing financial data, completing online learning and collaborating with colleagues.
What’s in it for you?
1. 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
2. Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
3. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
4. We Grow Our Own colleagues, when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
5. Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing.
Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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