Portfolio Accountant Croydon

Randstad Solutions Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad CPE is seeking a portfolio accounting professional to manage client accounts within a block management framework. You will work under the Team Leader and Head of Portfolio Accounting to ensure timely reporting, budget preparation, and financial controls.

Responsibilities include handling queries, maintaining schedules, and supporting service charge budgeting while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in a block management accounts department.
• Understanding of ARMA-Q regulatory framework.
• Clear and concise communication in meetings, email, and telephone.

Responsibilities

• Answer the main account line and handle queries or report requests.
• Reply to internal and external emails promptly.
• Maintain client portfolio year-end schedule daily.
• Provide weekly written updates to Team Leader/Head of Portfolio Accounting.
• Assist with service charge budget and ten-year maintenance plan.

Skills

Portfolio accounting

ARMA-Q awareness

Attention to detail

Communication

Teamwork

Deadline driven

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Reporting to: Team Leader & Head of Portfolio Accounting

Overall purpose of role:

To ensure that all clients within your portfolio are effectively managed and to provide all accounting services that are scheduled in the terms of our management agreement.

Key responsibilities and tasks:

Assisting with the smooth running of the department by carrying out the duties of answering the main account telephone line and dealing with any queries or report requests

Replying to all internal and external emails in a timely manner

Updating your client portfolio year-end schedule daily

Providing written up-to-date information to either the Team Leader or Head of Portfolio Accounting on a regular basis. (minimum requirement will be weekly)

To assist the Property Manager with the preparation of the annual service charge budget and ten-year maintenance plan for your clients, reviewing and approving the SC budget on Dwellant.

To ensure all your clients' applications are issued by our billings team as per client leases. Provide the Billings and DD Team with confirmation that the service charge budget has been released, so direct debts can be revised/set-up.

Attending Client meetings as and when required

Maintain regular checks of your client funds and instruct any necessary transfers

When necessary, reconciling your client's individual bank accounts

Preparing any required monthly client reporting for your portfolio, these could be computer generated reports or bespoke excel reports.

Reconciling and checking all Clients/Properties quarterly financial reports and balances. All reporting must be completed and issued to your Block Manager and Client within 14 days of the quarter end or as per our client KPI's.

Year-End Procedures - Preparing Client's Year-End paperwork, including but not limited to: -

o Checking all the Client's financial and non-financial reports

o Producing an expenditure against budget report

o Bank reconciliations

o Reconciling the paid invoices against expenditure reports

o Reconciling Client's various bank & building society accounts

o Preparing schedules for creditors, accruals, prepayments and debtors

o Preparing trial balance reports (if required)

o Preparing and issuing of Section 20b (if required)

o Review draft company and service charge accounts, before submission to client for approval. Ensure all accounts are completed in accordance with Companies House timeline.

o Arranging any Trust and Corporation tax returns for your clients.

o To assist with the preparation of your portfolio of Client's employees P11d forms.

Professional skills and experience

Has a track record of success in a similar role within a block management company accounts department.

Has a full understanding of and is used to working under the regulatory framework the business operates in - i.e. ARMA-Q

IT literate - Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and property management packages

Clear and concise communication skills - in meetings, email, and by telephone.

Attributes

Self-motivated, so that they can keep to deadlines and Client KPIs.

Strong attention to detail.

An effective team player who will work 'hands on' to ensure the business achieves its

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.