Service Charge Assistant Accountant One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle, Hybrid working 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.
After all, placing our customers are at the heart of everything we do, is just how we operate.
It's an exciting new role within our organisation to join us at the start of this journey in really making a difference to how we set and manage our service charges for our customers.
Typical day as a Service Charge Assistant Accountant * Monitoring expenditure, preparing journals, and providing variance analysis.
* Strong working relationships and collaboration 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 means we can demonstrate where our customers money goes.
* Highlighting areas for improvement, where we are under recovering our costs and help us to protect our income.
* Supporting operational colleagues to ensure expenditure is captured and coded correctly.
* Continuously improving processes to enhance our financial services.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better?
You'll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK.
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.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to?external?candidates for this role.
This remains under regular review.
Our team You'll be an integral part of both our Financial Reporting team, led by Emily, and our Leasehold team, led by Christine, ensuring brilliant collaboration between the two.
We are all super passionate about what we do and there is a great team spirit.
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." Job details * 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.
A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work.
We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here.
Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best.
Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What's in it for you?
* 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!
* 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.
* Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
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