Accountant

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About Ormerod Rutter

Ormerod Rutter is a thriving company which was founded over 40 years ago, we have 11 Partners and over 250 amazing employees. The Company has 5 offices across Worcestershire and we’re one of the largest independent accountancy companies in the region! We provide a variety of accounting services within the practice, this makes achieving your chosen career possible as whatever sector interests you, we have the support and tools on hand.

We encourage the team to be themselves and bring new ideas to the Company – we invest in you. Together we always achieve more. We recruit enthusiastic, motivated, and optimistic individuals who understand our values and have the drive to help achieve our goals.

To benefit our incredible staff - we offer award winning training, competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, annual awards, regular social events, and health benefits.

Benefits

Our highly attractive package of benefits are as follows:

Award winning training packages
Generous annual leave
Pension scheme
Life assurance benefit
Employee assistance programme
Options for hybrid working
Employee reward schemes
Volunteering charity days
OR Social Life

Despite our 5 separate offices, we love to get together as a company, so we encourage all staff to be able to come together throughout the year at numerous events held by the Company, including the annual black-tie evening, team sports, quiz nights, charity fundraising and much more!

Your Job Role – Accountant

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our wonderful service charge accounting team here at OR. Any previous service charge accounting experience is a bonus, however this is not essential, as there is a committed and friendly team willing to provide training to an individual that instead has some previous accounting experience but is willing to embrace a new path in service charge accounts.

The opportunity would be suited to an individual who is a team player, has good attention to detail and is meticulous in their work.

Responsibilities:

You will become part of our dynamic service charge team and have the responsibility of preparing service charge accounts for properties on behalf of national managing agents, landlords, and residents management companies who are our valued clients. We will also expect our new team member to provide an effective service on all compliance and advisory matters.

Your day-to-day duties will include:

Preparing service charge accounts from varying formats of accounting information
Performing and checking year-end adjustments
Preparing and processing audit plannings where necessary
Reviewing service charge accounts – sometimes these require auditing
Understanding the industry specific legislation that impacts the preparation of service charge accounts and their presentation
Reviewing leases for properties and advising clients
Reconciling handovers of properties between managing agents
Communicating daily and building good relationships with the clients
Replying to any queries and information requests the clients may have in a timely manner
Ensuring compliance with financial regulations and delegated financial responsibilities
Day to day administration in relation to billing and keeping systems updated
Requirements

Previous accounting or bookkeeping experience is essential
Strong desire to further your career in service charge accounting
Analytical skills
Excellent time management skills
A high level of attention to detail and accuracy and a methodical approach to tasks
Sound IT skills and good working knowledge of MS Office, particularly excel
An individual who can work well as part of a team
Accounting qualifications: minimum AAT or studying
If you would like to be part of our service charge accounting team, we would be delighted to hear from you for a preliminary discussion.

Where possible we address every application. If you do not hear back from us within 3 weeks, please consider you have been unsuccessful.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Company events
Company pension
Employee discount
Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person