Financial Accountant (Utilities)

at  Ballymore

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT (UTILITIES) - PERMANENT, CANARY WHARF

Hours of work: 40 per week, 08.30am - 17.30pm Monday to Friday

The Financial Accountant (Utilities) operates as a member of the finance team and is responsible for overseeing the accurate processing, payment and control of utilities invoices, together with the recovery of utilities income across all service charge developments under BAML management.

• Maintain the register of utilities meters across all developments, reviewing at least monthly for amendments, working closely with the energy and sustainability team.
• Liaise with external utilities consultants and providers to ensure all utilities invoices are made available to BAML on a timely basis.
• Production of monthly utilities financial reporting, including variance analysis and commentary on significant differences to budget, and forecasting to year end for all developments.
• Ensure up-to-date direct debit mandates and payments schedules are held on file for all utilities.
• Perform a reconciliation of all meters billed compared to all meters in existence.
• Ensure utilities invoices are processed monthly, on a timely basis.
• Where invoices aren’t available on a timely basis, provide an estimate of monthly accruals to the service charge property accountants for processing.
• Create and maintain control accounts for heating and chilling across all developments.
• Perform reconciliations of water, heating and chilling income and expenditure on a monthly basis.
• Ensure water, heating and chilling income and expenditure is appropriately managed.
• Monitor cash payments and cash receipts in respect of water, heating and chilling transactions, reconciling as appropriate.
• Generation and review of monthly (and adhoc) system reports to support business activities of other teams.
• Investigate water, heating and chilling anomalies on a timely basis, and implement corrections as relevant.
• Organise and maintain the electronic filing, Sharepoint

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
• Prior property development experience preferred
• Past exposure to month-end and year-end financial close
• Have hands on experience with finance systems
• Accuracy and attention-to-detail
• Flexibility to meet tight financial reporting deadlines
• Methodical approach, and the capability to work unsupervised
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise a variety of conflicting work requests
  We operate as an equal opportunities employer.

• Maintain the register of utilities meters across all developments, reviewing at least monthly for amendments, working closely with the energy and sustainability team.
• Liaise with external utilities consultants and providers to ensure all utilities invoices are made available to BAML on a timely basis.
• Production of monthly utilities financial reporting, including variance analysis and commentary on significant differences to budget, and forecasting to year end for all developments.
• Ensure up-to-date direct debit mandates and payments schedules are held on file for all utilities.
• Perform a reconciliation of all meters billed compared to all meters in existence.
• Ensure utilities invoices are processed monthly, on a timely basis.
• Where invoices aren’t available on a timely basis, provide an estimate of monthly accruals to the service charge property accountants for processing.
• Create and maintain control accounts for heating and chilling across all developments.
• Perform reconciliations of water, heating and chilling income and expenditure on a monthly basis.
• Ensure water, heating and chilling income and expenditure is appropriately managed.
• Monitor cash payments and cash receipts in respect of water, heating and chilling transactions, reconciling as appropriate.
• Generation and review of monthly (and adhoc) system reports to support business activities of other teams.
• Investigate water, heating and chilling anomalies on a timely basis, and implement corrections as relevant.
• Organise and maintain the electronic filing, Sharepoin