Accounts Assistant

**Job Ref**
- AA - CPMF - West Malling - Aug 22**Location**:

- 35 Kings Hill Ave, Kings Hill, West Malling ME19 4DN, UK**Function**
- Property Management Finance**Salary**
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**Status**
- Full Time**Type**
- Permanent About the Team

Our West Malling office is dedicated to Client Accounting, comprising three services: Rates Payment Managements Services (RPMS), Corporate Property Management Finance (CPMF) and Investment Property Management Finance (IPMF).
- RPMS brings together our expertise in rating surveying, ICT and rates accounting to introduce financial discipline, efficiency and liquidity to the payment of our clients’ rates bills. The team is responsible for processing annual rates liabilities of more than £1 billion on behalf of businesses including: BP, Costa, JP Morgan and Whitbread.
- CPMF combines our property management expertise with strong accounting knowledge to manage the finances for our corporate occupier clients’ property portfolios. Making payment to our client’s landlords for Rent and Service Charges of over £700 Million per year. Clients include Costa, WH Smith and Whitbread plc.
- IPMF combines our Property Asset Management team with strong client accounting team to manage the financial aspects of our investment clients’ portfolios. Collected rent and managing service charges and providing comprehensive reporting. Clients include Daily Mail Pension Fund, Christs Hospital Foundation and Allen & Overy LLP.

A vacancy has arisen within the CPMF team working as an Accounts Assistant. The role involves working closely with the relevant Client Accountant and wider Surveying teams. This is a busy role, that will give someone the opportunity to work within a small team who gains satisfaction from being busy, using excellent attention to detail and building relationships across different business areas.

Main responsibilities
- Work with PMF team uploading all invoices / tax receipts received into GE Retrieve system
- Liaise with external managing agents and landlords to obtain copies of missing documents
- Undertake supplier statement reconciliations against GE system records
- Solving discrepancies between actual demands and property database records

About you
- Well organised, methodical and conscientious; capable of using initiative and common sense.
- Strong attention to detail
- Able to deal with people at all levels, with tact and diplomacy
- Happy to work in a small team or individually
- Personable and approachable
- Experience of using computer-based accounting systems.
- Must be numerate, have an eye for detail and have communication skills, both in writing and on the telephone -particularly important when dealing with clients.
- Ability to deal with large volumes and work to deadlines.
- Excellent spreadsheet (Excel) and IT skills

Salary and benefits
- Salary: competitive based on market, professional experience and qualifications
- Performance related staff profit share scheme
- 26 days’ holiday, plus Bank Holidays and days at Christmas and New Year
- Pension scheme membership (after initial probationary period)
- Life and Accident insurance
- Group income protection scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Wellbeing Allowance
- Access to Peppy for you and your partner
- 1 paid volunteering day per year to help give back to our local communities
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
- Interest Free Rental Deposit Loan
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after two years’ service

Working hours

While the normal hours of work for the Firm are 9.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, with one hour and fifteen minutes being allowed for lunch each day, the RPMS and PMF team hours are Monday to Thursday 9am to 5.30pm with 1 hour for lunch and split their working hours on Fridays only, alternating between 8.30 am to 1.30pm with no lunch break, and 8.30am to 4.30pm with 45 minutes for lunch.