Junior Service Charge Accountant in City of Westminster

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them.

This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe.

Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre‑eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life.

We’ve honed this ability over 80 years.

Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world.

Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

LOCATION

This role is based at London, Victoria and offers hybrid working (Minimum 3 days in the office).

THE TEAM

You will join the Service charge team within Group Finance, working closely with colleagues across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting, Commercial Finance as well as our Operations and site teams based at head office and at our shopping centres and office assets across the country.

The team sits at the heart of the organisation and plays a key role in supporting Landsec’s internal and external financial reporting including service charge reporting to customers.

The team culture is collaborative, supportive, and focused on continuous improvement.

You will work alongside experienced finance professionals who value clear communication, teamwork, strong analytical skills, and a proactive mindset that embraces accountability and delivers positive change.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a motivated graduate or early‑career finance professional who is curious, proactive and eager to learn.

This role offers a fantastic foundation in commercial and property finance, providing hands‑on experience in budgeting, financial analysis, stakeholder engagement and service charge accounting.

You'll gain exposure to a broad range of teams across Landsec while developing the technical and commercial skills needed to build a successful long‑term career in finance.

What makes this role unique?

• You will play a key role in ensuring service charges deliver value for money and transparency for our customers.
• You will gain a deep, practical understanding of how lower complexity assets operate, from day‑to‑day expenditure through to long‑term planning.
• You will build strong partnerships with asset management, property management, operations and external stakeholders, influencing decision‑making across the business.
• You will contribute to enhancing trust with customers and well‑governed service charge processes.
• You will be part of a team that plays a meaningful role in the performance, reputation and long‑term success of our assets.
• You will develop a strong technical and commercial foundation across lower‑complexity assets, providing a natural stepping stone into working on high‑complexity and flagship assets as your capability grows.
• You will be tech‑literate proactively utilising new systems to streamline, automate and improve current ways of working.
• PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Take full accountability for ensuring service charge expenditure is accurately, consistently, and timely accounted for throughout the year.
• Prepare monthly Service Charge expenditure accruals, prepayments and asset‑specific journals
• Review Service Charge expenditure vs budget and challenge where appropriate, to drive cost efficiencies
• Produce variance analysis and insight reports and conduct variance meetings with internal stakeholders identifying risks and opportunities
• Play an active role in supporting the preparation, review, and monitoring of service charge budgets, including data preparation, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure life cycle replacements and forward funding projects are accurately accounted for throughout the year and in the budget
• Take full accountability for accurate year‑end reconciliations of Service charge expenditure and calculation of balancing charges to customers
• Pro‑actively respond to tenant queries and support expenditure reviews
• Play an active role in supporting system optimisation initiatives by promoting best practice, supporting adoption, and reinforcing that efficient system use is a shared team responsibility.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Pro‑active with problem‑solving skills and the ability to identify issues, elevate appropriately, and contribute to improving processes.
• Agile and flexible, with a willingness to learn and adapt to new systems and ways of working.
• Demonstrates personal responsibility for assigned tasks and a commitment to delivering work accurately and on time.
• Ability to review information and existing processes, and to raise questions or suggestions to support effective ways of working.
• Ability to manage detail effectively, balancing accuracy with efficiency under guidance.
• Basic understanding of budgeting and variance analysis, with the ability to support budget preparation and review activities.
• Good attention to detail and analytical skills, with support to understand and summarise financial information.
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and build positive working relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Willingness to support team members and contribute positively to a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to manage workload effectively and deliver assigned tasks to deadlines, with support where required.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain information to colleagues.
• Good working knowledge of Excel, with a willingness to develop advanced skills.
• Exposure to or interest in learning Power BI is desirable.
• Life and Benefits at Landsec

We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work‑life balance and in moments that matter.

We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.

Below are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.

• Performance based annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year.

Enjoy an additional three‑day December festive break on top of your leave and a special ‘My Day’ to take off for whatever you choose.

• Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
• Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details)
• Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build
• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause.

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