Service Charge Accountant

Telstra Associates; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Professional Services Company is seeking an Experienced Service Charge Accountant to assist with historic reconciliations in London. This role involves reviewing data from the past 5 years, reconciling service charge accounts, and calculating tenant balances. Candidates should have experience in commercial and residential properties, general ledgers, and lease management. This position requires onsite presence 2–3 times a week and aims to embed a new service charge budgeting process.

Qualifications

• Experience in completing service charge reconciliations for both commercial and residential properties.
• Familiarity with reviewing general ledgers, lease documentation, and invoices.
• Capability to summarize reconciliations clearly for management review.

Responsibilities

• Complete historic service charge reconciliations for 249 accounts.
• Calculate balances for each tenant.
• Embed a new service charge budget process into the London portfolio.

Skills

Service Charge reconciliations

Reviewing general ledgers

Lease documentation

Invoices

Lease management database records

Job description

A leading Professional Services Company is seeking a Service Charge Accountant Commercial & Residential Property on a contract basis.

You will be required to work onsite in London 2–3 times a week.

Our client is seeking resources to complete the reconciliation of large and complex data sets for their London commercial and residential portfolios across systems such as property management accounts, general ledgers, and bank statements. Their process is designed to identify, extract, categorize, and reconcile transactions, highlighting discrepancies and providing management with clear outputs for review. The scope will focus on data integrity and reconciliation, not on fraud detection

Role Overview

Scope – Client is looking for assistance to complete 249 historic service charge reconciliations and complete the embedding of a new service charge budget process into our London portfolio, by 31 December 2025.

Individuals will be reviewing data from the past 5 years to reconcile service charge accounts, then calculating the balance for each tenant and working summarising this to the client.

Role 1 – Experienced Service Charge Accountants

• Experience performing Service Charge reconciliations within Commercial and residential portfolios
• They will need to have familiarity with reviewing general ledgers, lease documentation, invoices, and other lease management database records