Service Charge Accountant RBKC605433
Job Description
Job title: Service Charge Accountant RBKC605433
Company: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Job description: Job Summary:
Salary range: £41,967 – £50,008 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 24 months
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 11th February 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 19th February 2023
About Us:
Be part of a collaborative team getting our accounts back on track
In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. Ensuring high-quality housing for both homeowners and social housing residents is a priority. We generate significant income from major works and service charges on council-owned housing stock, most of which is re-invested in maintenance, improvement and regeneration.
The Role:
Following the pandemic we have a backlog of service charges and major works accounting work to complete. You’ll help to get us back up to speed by calculating and reconciling charges, and producing final accounts. Providing excellent service is important and your success will depend on working successfully with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues and customers. You will also help to develop systems and arrange any audits that are needed. Managing large amounts of data and ensuring attention to detail is a key challenge.
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About You:
You’ll have strong technical management accounting experience, including the operation of highly codified systems or systems controlling large capital projects. However, this role is about more than just numbers: you’ll also have a keen understanding of the social housing sector and a strong drive for customer care.
Excellent IT skills, including the manipulation of complex spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, are important. Ideally you’ll hold a CCAB accountancy qualification (or equivalent) and will have a good knowledge of leaseholder service charges. Good communication skills will help you to make the most of this opportunity.
In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email:
Expected salary: £41967 – 50008 per year
Location: London
