Accounts Assistant
Join Encore as a Senior Service Charge Accountant! Manage estate finances, ensure smooth operations, and work closely with teams in a fast-growing company. Hybrid work, growth opportunities, and a sup
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At Encore, we’re more than just property managers—we’re community builders! Managing over £20m in client service charge budgets across the UK, we’re growing fast and looking for a brilliant Service Charge Accountant to join our thriving team.
As an Accounts Assistant you’ll be managing the finances of a portfolio of estates, making sure everything runs smoothly. You’ll work closely with our Estate Management team, external accountants, and occasionally, with clients and leaseholders. This is a great opportunity to dive into property management finance and grow your career in a fast-moving company.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Service Charge Budgets: Make sure annual budgets are accurate and loaded correctly.
- Billing: Handle billing for service charges, ground rent, and other fees to leaseholders.
- End of Year Accounts: Prepare year-end service charge accounts and work with external accountants for review.
- Bank Reconciliation: Keep monthly reconciliations on track for client estates.
- Quarterly Reports: Produce reports to review with Estate Managers and clients, analysing the financial health of the estates.
- Leaseholder Queries: Deal with any questions or concerns from leaseholders, providing clear, timely responses.
- Utilities & Insurance: Handle recharges to leaseholders and keep on top of tax admin.
- General Support: Assist the Client Accounting team with day-to-day tasks and anything else that comes up.
What You’ll Bring:
- Accounting experience (service charge experience is a plus, but not required).
- Part-qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA with a desire to continue growing.
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills—you’re comfortable dealing with financial information.
- Great communication skills—both written and verbal.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel (familiarity with Qube is a bonus).
- A team player who enjoys working collaboratively across different department.
We operate a hybrid working model at Encore with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.
The salary range for this role is £27,000 - £29,000 p.a.
- Department
- Service Charge Accounts
- Role
- Service Charge Accountant
- Locations
- Cambridge
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Yearly salary
- £27,000 - £29,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Encore
As property professionals, we created Encore in 2004 following our own experience of receiving poor management and the difficulty of finding a managing agent with the right aptitude and attitude. We chose the name Encore because it symbolises a great performance - which is what we strive to deliver. From the beginning we've adopted the philosophy of ‘taking care of your property as though we live there'.
Residential management is a people business. Professional, experienced and friendly, our people make the difference. Our people bring our values to life every day and help make places better. Quite simply, we have the right people, expertise, systems, scale and culture to be the perfect next home for you.
Accounts Assistant
Join Encore as a Senior Service Charge Accountant! Manage estate finances, ensure smooth operations, and work closely with teams in a fast-growing company. Hybrid work, growth opportunities, and a sup
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