CBRE Jobs

Service Charge Assistant

Job ID

169882

Posted

28-Jun-2024

Service line

Advisory Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Accounting/Finance

Location(s)

Glasgow - Scotland - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Role Purpose

Working in the Real Estate Accounting Services team where the individual will be responsible for a range of service charge work across a varied client property portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with our third-party partners to ensure closure off annual service charge reconciliations across a variety of assets in line with RICS guidelines and agreed SLAs. Role will require a variation of:

• Reviewing income demanded in the year and ensuring all occupiers are correctly billed

• Reviewing Tenant apportionment and undertaking CAP calculations

• Reviewing expenditure to ensure it has been coded correctly in line with budget

• posting accruals and prepayments

• Raising ad-hoc charges to tenants

• Preparing closure packs and letters

• Assist in quality review of third party partners work

• Preparing reconciliation of clients’ service charge funds.

• Working closely with other teams within REAS to provide exceptional outcomes to our client

• Liaising with various internal and external stakeholders to achieve the role responsibilities.

Person Specifications / Requirements

• Technical understanding of accounting principles

• Understanding of Real Estate transactions

• Sophisticated experience in book keeping

• Experience in reconciliation, accruals and prepayments would be advantageous

Key Skills

• Attention to detail

• Problem solving

• Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines

• Relationship management

• Ability to make decisions

• Excellent communication skills

• Numerical and analytically minded

• Self-starter

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)