Service Charge Accountant

MSV Housing Group; Stretford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing organization in Stretford is seeking a Service Charge Accountant to ensure accurate rent and service charge setting, monitoring, and reporting. You'll collaborate with various teams while maintaining robust financial controls. Ideal candidates are part qualified accountants with experience in finance or social housing. The role offers flexibility, excellent benefits including 33 days of holiday, a pension scheme, wellbeing support, and a commitment to equality and inclusion.

Benefits

Flexibility on where you work with home working kit

33 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions

Company funded health cash plan

Enhanced sick pay

Health and Wellbeing Support

Life assurance

Learning and development support

Commitment to Equality and Inclusion

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working within a service charge team.
• Experience of working within a finance team in a complex organisation.
• Experience of social housing rents and service charges.
• Robust knowledge of legislation for the calculation and implementation of service charges.
• Sound understanding of financial controls & processes.
• Ability to analyse large complex data sets to produce reports.

Responsibilities

• Ensure rents and service charges are set, managed, and monitored accurately.
• Record and validate service charge income and expenditure.
• Lead on external audit queries and maintain financial controls.
• Work with internal teams to set service charges for new schemes.
• Implement process improvements and ensure timely updates to charges.

Skills

Regulatory Compliance & Accuracy

Financial Management & Reporting

Audit & Controls

Collaboration & Technical Support

Systems & Process Improvement

Data Analysis

Education

Part Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CIPFA)

Job description

Hours of work: 35 hours per week

Closing date: 2nd January 2026

Interviews: 7th January 2026

At MSV Housing we’re committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes and our Service Charge Accountant is key to making this happen.

Reporting to our Finance Business Partner, you will provide support by ensuring accurate rent and service charge setting, monitoring, and financial reporting in compliance with regulatory requirements. You will maintain robust audit trails, deliver transparent cost recovery, and provide timely financial information to stakeholders. In addition, we are looking for candidates that have a passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.

What will our Service Charge Accountant do

• Regulatory Compliance & Accuracy: Ensure rents and service charges are set, managed, and monitored in line with statutory and regulatory requirements, maintaining transparency and accuracy.
• Financial Management & Reporting: Record and validate service charge income and expenditure, produce monthly management accounts, and prepare audited year-end accounts and annual statements.
• Audit & Controls: Lead on external audit queries, maintain robust financial controls, and complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure data integrity.
• Collaboration & Technical Support: Work with internal teams and development colleagues to set service charges for new schemes, provide guidance on compliance, and support customer consultations.
• Systems & Process Improvement: Maintain accurate data across financial and housing systems, implement process improvements, and ensure timely updates to charges and reconciliations.

What we are looking for

• Part Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CIPFA) or extensive experience working within a service charge team.
• Experience of working within a finance team in a complex organisation.
• Experience of social housing rents and service charges.
• Robust knowledge of the legislation for the calculation and implementation of service charges.
• Sound understanding of financial controls & processes.
• Ability to analyse large complex data sets to produce reports and deliver information to a range of audiences.

We offer a range of great benefits including

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided.
• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday a buy scheme.
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions.
• Company funded access to a health cash plan, where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more.
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay.
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives.
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career.
• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause.

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however, we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so.

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role. https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/

If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Julie Arkinstall, Service Charge Project Lead on 0161 841 8320.

Interviews are scheduled to take on 7th January 2026 however interviews may be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role, but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for.