Service Charge Assistant Accountant

Salary £27,000 to £31,000 negotiable based on skills and experience, plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!

2 x Permanent roles and 1 x 12 Months FTC, Full time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday

One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle, Hybrid working

Are you passionate about finance, not fazed by large amounts of data and have a great eye for detail? As a Service Charge Assistant Accountant, you will play a key role in ensuring our service charge accounts are produced on time and accurately to our customers. This is a brand new and exciting role within our organisation, providing a fantastic opportunity to join us at the start of this journey in making a difference to how we set and manage our service charges for our customers.

What you'll do:

• Monitoring expenditure, preparing journals, and providing variance analysis.
• Building strong working relationships and collaborating with our Leasehold Team to understand how our schemes are set up and the services that we deliver.
• Interpreting and producing financial data into a customer-friendly format that demonstrates where our customers' money goes.
• Highlighting areas for improvement, where we are under recovering our costs and helping to protect our income.
• Supporting operational colleagues to ensure expenditure is captured and coded correctly.
• Continuously improving processes to enhance our financial services.

Why join us:

You will be an integral part of both our Financial Reporting team and our Homeownership team, ensuring brilliant collaboration between the two. We all bring a great eye for detail, creative spark and passion for our roles. We're keen to ensure we are not just your typical accountants. Come and be part of one of the UK's Great Places to Work!

You have:

• Solid accounting knowledge, either through experience or qualifications such as AAT.
• Experience of social housing or property management service charges, including a robust knowledge of the legislation for the calculation and implementation of service charges.
• Strong proficiency with integrated financial systems and software like Excel in order to analyse large complex data sets.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clear, concise reports and deliver information to a range of audiences.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to plan and prioritise your own workload.

The practical bits:

• Flexible working hours (or we're open to agreeing a work pattern with you).
• 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!
• This is a hybrid role and you'll spend 2 days in the office, 3 days working at home.
• Able to use technology for producing financial data, completing online learning and collaborating with colleagues.

What's in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank holidays 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!
• Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum covering costs towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
• Opportunities for career growth.

Click APPLY NOW to see our Service Charge Assistant Accountant Job Description, find out about us, for help to apply and for all our benefits. Roles can close early, so don't wait.