Senior Portfolio Accountant

Role Overview

You will play a pivotal role in delivering timely, accurate and insightful financial reporting across a diverse residential portfolio, ensuring our clients and residents receive an exceptional, transparent service. As a trusted partner to operational teams and client directors, you will turn numbers into clear actions, strengthening financial discipline, cashflow and compliance.

• Rendall & Rittner
• Highly Competitive
• Hybrid - London (Vauxhall)

You will play a pivotal role in delivering timely, accurate and insightful financial reporting across a diverse residential portfolio, ensuring our clients and residents receive an exceptional, transparent service. As a trusted partner to operational teams and client directors, you will turn numbers into clear actions, strengthening financial discipline, cashflow and compliance. This is a hybrid role with meaningful flexibility and collaboration: you will spend two days per week in our London office at 13B St George Wharf, London SW8 2LE
, and the rest working from home. You will bring a calm, solutions-focused approach, shaping better ways of working and raising standards across the portfolio.

Most days, you will own the end-to-end accounting cycle for your portfolio—completing month-end close, reconciliations, service charge accounts and insightful variance analysis. You will regularly partner with Property Managers and Client Directors, resolve queries with pace, and lead smooth year-end and audit processes. You will also drive process improvements and strengthen controls.

• Service charge accounts and year-end packs delivered right first time and on or ahead of deadline.
• Clean audits with minimal adjustments and clear, professional communication with auditors and clients.
• Robust cashflow management: accurate reconciliations, timely income recovery and well-controlled spend.
• Insightful reporting that informs decisions, highlights risks early and surfaces actionable opportunities.
• Strong partnerships with operational teams and clients, evidenced by trust and positive feedback.
• Continuous improvement realised through simplified processes, better controls and smarter reporting.

• Producing accurate service charge accounts, month-end close, journals, accruals/prepayments and bank reconciliations.
• Preparing budgets and forecasts with clear commentary and variance analysis for stakeholders.
• Leading the year-end timetable, liaising with auditors, preparing working papers and resolving queries.
• Partnering with Property Managers and Client Directors to manage financial performance and cashflow.
• Monitoring debtor balances, overseeing supplier payments and strengthening control environments.
• Improving processes and reporting, leveraging systems and Excel to increase accuracy and efficiency.

• You take ownership for outcomes, balance detail with pragmatism and communicate clearly with non-finance stakeholders.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, service-led environment and can prioritise across multiple sites and deadlines.
• You are analytically strong, curious about the “why”, and turn data into practical recommendations.
• You build trust quickly, handle challenging queries with empathy, and follow through until resolution.
• You enjoy improving processes and sharing knowledge to uplift team capability.

• Experience in residential property or service charge accounting, or other multi-entity/portfolio environments.
• Familiarity with property accounting systems (e.g., Qube, MRI, Yardi) and strong Excel skills.
• Track record of delivering year-end accounts and supporting external audits.
• Exposure to cashflow management, debtor control and supplier payment processes.
• Involvement in process improvement, automation or reporting enhancements.

• Competitive salary, aligned to experience
• Discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance, life assurance and enhanced family leave
• Fully funded training and professional development
• Paid sabbaticals as a loyalty reward
• Pension scheme and employee assistance programme
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