Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant Client Accounts Assistant - Leading Property Brand - Croydon - Hybrid/Agile Working Are you an organised, detail-oriented accounts professional looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opening for a Client Accounts Assistant to join a dynamic property solutions division! This role is crucial in ensuring financial compliance and providing excellent service to clients and property managers. You'll be responsible for: • Service Charge Accounting: Ensuring service charges are accounted for accurately and on time, adhering to industry codes (like the RICS Code of Practice) and accounting regulations. This includes the accurate and timely issuance of service charge accounts within six months of the year endand statutory accounting and taxation affairs. • Account Preparation & Reconciliation: Preparing and reconciling property management system information, including entering year-end adjustments and reserve fund transfers. You will also check expenditure and prepare the year-end balancing service charge surplus/deficit calculation. • Compliance & Administration: Assisting with the preparation of Section 20b notices within the six-month deadline and ensuring these are approved by management. You will also update control sheets daily to maintain accurate information. • Stakeholder Liaison: Dealing with queries from property managers, accountants, and clients, ensuring responses are provided within three working days. You'll liaise with property managers and external auditors to obtain approval of year-end service charge accounts and company accounts. • Ad-Hoc Support: Providing assistance with any additional ad-hoc accounting or administrative tasks as required. What You'll Bring To be successful in this role, you should possess: • Essential Qualifications: Maths and English at GCSE (A-C) or equivalent. • Core Skills: Strong organizational skills and good numerical skills. • Professional Traits: The ability to work on your own initiative and as a team player. You must also be able to prioritize critical workload and thrive under pressure and strict time frames. • Soft Skills: Well-developed interpersonal and oral communication skills , along with a customer-focused approach and diplomacy. • Desirable: Experience in the property management industry is a bonus, though not essential. Apply now! Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.