Are you highly organised, detail-focused, and looking to grow your career in finance?
Do you enjoy working with numbers, supporting a team, and making sure everything adds up behind the scenes?
We’re looking for an Accounts Administrator to join our client accounting team. This role is essential in supporting the financial management of income and expenditure, maintaining accurate records, and assisting in the production of client reports. You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team, helping to ensure the financial integrity of our client accounts.
What You’ll Be Doing
Income Management
* Assist with raising service charge and rental income, including turnover calculations and rent deposit maintenance
* Manage accounting for additional income streams (e.g. car parks, shopping centres, interest on late payments)
* Prepare completion statements for property sales and lease terminations
* Process tenant refunds as instructed
Expenditure Management
* Liaise with site teams to ensure service charge expenditure is accurate
* Maintain records for tenant-recoverable costs
Reporting
* Support the production of regular client reports
* Complete banking summaries within agreed timelines
* Assist with statutory and regulatory reporting (e.g. HMRC, RICS)
Team Collaboration
* Work with the wider client accounting team to manage workload
* Build great working relationships to support team success
What You’ll Bring
Skills and Experience
* Basic knowledge or experience in accounting/bookkeeping
* Minimum GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English (Grade C or above)
* Great computer literacy, including MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Highly organised with strong attention to detail
* Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
* AAT qualification (desirable but not essential)
Key Strengths
* Accuracy and attention to detail
* Clear and confident communication
* Analytical thinking and problem-solving
* Effective time management
* Team-oriented and adaptable
* Proactive and able to use initiative
How To Apply
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and take the next step in your finance career.
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.