Service Charge Accountant - Hybrid Role with Impact

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 We can't offer a CoS for this role 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? 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. After all, placing o ur customers are at the heart of everything we do, is just how we operate. This is brand new and exciting role within our organisation so a fantastic opportunity 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. What you'll do * 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. Why join us You'll be an integral part of both our Financial Reporting team and our Homeownership team, led by Christine, 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. Stronger together We do our best work when we're ourselves. That's why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work ! 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 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! * Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary) * 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. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us. * We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us! Find out more Find out more 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. For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk. #J-18808-Ljbffr