This is an amazing opportunity for an Accountant with additional exposure to Property Management based in the City office of an international firm. The property types are commercial offices in large City buildings.
Responsibilities
- Establish an efficient setup for the financial reporting function in the London office
- Company bookkeeping and Property Management accounting
- Interacting directly with property owners, tenants, and vendors daily
- Oversee AR, including tenant outreach regarding the collection of rents, posting late fees, and sending late notices
- Handle all AP for the property by processing invoices, including data entry, GL coding, and billing work orders for internal maintenance staff.
- TICAM reconciliation – Taxes, Insurance, and Common Area Maintenance
- Respond to tenant needs, ensuring that problems are resolved promptly, including dispatching vendors to handle building-related issues, as appropriate
- Draft and send tenant and building-related correspondence emails
- Assist in the upkeep of all property management software which includes entering and updating work orders and maintaining company electronic records, including leases, contracts, invoices, COIs, vendors, and other documents relating to property operations
- Fielding service calls from tenants and coordinating the performance of service work
- Enforcing the terms of commercial lease agreements
- Handling rent collection, posting rent, and sending late notices and defaults
- Managing work orders, invoices, service records, contracts, and insurance requirements
- Coordinating regular property inspections and routine property maintenance
- Administrative duties
- Ad-hoc tasks/projects as assigned.
Key skills
- A minimum of three years of work experience, ideally in commercial real estate accounting is required
- At least one year of commercial property management experience ideally
- Deep working knowledge of account payables, receivables, and expenditure control
- Experience in QuickBooks and/or SAP is desirable
- Strong knowledge of lease administration, basic property management bookkeeping, TICAM reconciliations, and physical plant maintenance
- Competency in preparing professional, comprehensive memorandums, letters, reports, documents, files, etc.
- Proficient in MS Office
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritise work requests
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, and high-level organizational skills
- This is an office-based 5 days per week role 9-6, so someone who is committed to the daily travel to the top City location is a must
Job advantages
- Great, stable opportunity in a boutique office with a lovely international team
- Self-starter opportunity – make the role your own
- Top City location – easy to commute
- Competitive salary on offer
