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Accountant (Service Charges)

Moat Homes Limited

Accountant (Service Charges)

£52974

Moat Homes Limited, Temple Hill, Dartford

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 3 weeks ago, 23 Aug | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 0ca249d96f334079a14ad0372da195e7

Full Job Description

  • A Business partner to the Rents and Service Charge teams. Providing support, reconciliation, and review.

  • Co-ordinating the monthly reporting of rents and service charges at group, company and at scheme levels. This includes understanding the processes and needs of the teams and providing financial information in a format which aids business decisions.

  • Providing analytical review of trends of income and expenditure. This will include a review of detailed calculations of estimates and year-ends and providing variance analysis to Service Charge Manager, business and senior management.

  • Journalling the annual rent and service charge budgets into the Finance system.

  • Carrying out budgeting and reforecasting of managing agents' prepayments and accruals.

  • Carrying out checks of Direct Debit amendment files for bulk changes for rent reviews and year-end service charge adjustments.

  • Ensuring correct statements for My Choice HomeBuy and Exempt Housing Authority Loans in line with FCA requirements are sent.

  • Ensuring that appropriate future repair funds are in place, liaising with other departments to ensure that funds are adequate to cover future works and are utilised as appropriate. Provide guidance on how to maximise the amounts recovered and what amendments may be required to Future Repair Fund contribution. This will include checking and identifying amounts to recover from customers for additional works.

  • Reviewing and maintaining the Management Fee structure by identifying and updating changes to the pricing mechanism and review annually.

  • Maintaining and updating control manuals, procedure documents and process maps and ensure compliance in practice.

    Full professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

  • Proficient in numerical analysis and interpretation.

  • Knowledge and understanding of the application of service charges in the social housing sector.

  • Experience of management and financial accounting functions.


    • In addition, the following would be beneficial but aren't essential:

  • Knowledge of current financial reporting standards relevant to the sector (SORP, FRS).

  • Thorough understanding of social housing service charge processes.

  • Good understanding of business as well as financial issues., Disability Confident

    • About Disability Confident
    A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

    Moat are one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spread across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future. We have released our new corporate strategy, so it's an exciting time to join Moat! This involves being bold and ambitious, investing in new and existing homes, putting safety and quality first. We also deliver for and with our customers through our new Customer Engagement strategy, which will help us to deliver the requirements of the Social Housing White Paper.

    We are also proud to announce, we have recently been awarded an accreditation from 'The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024', based on our employee feedback.

    In return for your hard work, we will reward you with a competitive salary, pension scheme, healthcare scheme, a generous annual leave entitlement, and you even get a half day off on your birthday!

    We take pride in our people to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge they require to carry out their role and inspire them to learn more which is why we offer further education sponsorship and leadership programmes. Moat want to ensure their employees feel supported at work, so we also provide enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave, and many more!

    Check out our employee benefits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo5SXag4bjg

    Interested? We want to hear from you!