Client Accountant

We are looking for an experienced Client Accountant to join our Finance Team within the Homes Division, supporting the financial management of a diverse residential property portfolio. Your role will involve managing the full-service charge demand cycle, preparing accurate year‑end accounts, maintaining reconciled client bank accounts, and ensuring all financial reporting deadlines are met.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the full demand process, including issuing budget templates to property managers, uploading budgets into MRI Qube and sending demands on time.
• Ensuring all client reporting requirements are met within agreed deadlines, including cyclical financial reports and information needed to support VAT reporting to HMRC.
• Arranging the timing transfer of rental income to client as per their specifications.
• Preparing service charge year‑end accounts for submission to the independent accountants, including accrual and prepayment schedules, void calculations, and resolving queries with the accountants, property manager and client to secure approval.
• Distributing year‑end accounts to all leaseholders within six months of the relevant financial year, or issuing Section 20B notices on time where required.
• Managing the monthly expenditure review and correction process in collaboration with the relevant property manager.
• Supporting the rent review process for AST, Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership properties.
• Ensuring all client bank accounts in the portfolio are fully reconciled within two weeks of the statement date, including resolving any uncleared items or discrepancies.
• Maintaining accurate accounting records for developer site completions, ensuring schedules and apportionment percentages are added to MRI Qube and liaising with the Mobilisation team to resolve any completion queries.

Key requirements:

• Strong accounting skills supported by a qualification or relevant practical experience.
• Experience in reporting statements of profit and loss.
• Proven ability to meet financial reporting deadlines and maintain fully reconciled client bank accounts with accuracy and attention to detail.
• End‑to‑end service charge accounting experience, including budgeting, year‑end accounts, accruals, prepayments, voids and statutory deadlines, with a strong background in residential block management and supporting Property and Estate Managers across varied portfolios.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with clients, auditors and internal teams.
• Experience using MRI Qube or a similar property management system is desirable.

Benefits:

• In addition to statutory benefits such as sick pay, maternity/paternity leave, a pension scheme and annual leave.
• Maternity and paternity packages.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced pension scheme.
• Additional annual leave.
• Private medical insurance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Retail discounts.
• Childcare assistance.
• Season ticket loans.
• Sick pay schemes.
• Personal development plans.

We believe that diversity makes us stronger. The more varied our workforce, the better we can understand, reflect and meet the needs of the communities we serve. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, especially those who represent the communities we work with every day.