Administrator

X1 Lettings
Are you ready to join an exciting, fast paced, multi award winning property management company as part of our Finance Team? By joining us, you will have the opportunity to learn and develop your career by working within one of the UKs most exciting and fastest growing industries, amongst the friendly Service Charge Team within our Finance Department. This is a prime role for you to make a difference, develop your skills and strengths, with a complete focus on delivering outstanding personal, team and business results and success. Welcome to X1 X1 is a dynamic and highly successful Property Management company, established in Liverpool in 2011. After exciting business growth we have gone from strength to strength and now operate offices in Liverpool, Manchester in 2014, Leeds in 2017, and Kent in 2020. We pride ourselves as a multi-award winning company which provides a high quality rental experience whilst building strong and lasting relationships with our tenants and landlords alike. Continued growth is set for 2023 with 4 new sites launching across Manchester, and the X1 team is growing rapidly to support this.Our Values Our values of Quality; Teamwork; Accountability; Flexibility; Compliance and Fun are at the heart of our culture and the way we do things and essential to our sustained success.The RoleThis role is ideal for an outgoing, personable and level headed candidate who is willing to learn about block management and service charge within the residential and student property industry. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Assisting the block management team to produce an annual service charge budget for each building within their portfolio, estimating with due care the total running costs associated,
• Calculate and produce service charge invoices for each leaseholder to be issued in a timely manner.
• Producing monthly income & expenditure reports for their portfolio of buildings to review with the block management team, highlighting any significant variances between forecasted and actual expenditure.
• Working closely with the lettings team & payments team to ensure collection of service charge payments from all managed leaseholders.
• Produce weekly arrears reports to highlight service charge debt across leaseholders within their portfolio.
• Raise payments for contractors and suppliers to ensure service charge costs are paid in a timely manner.
• Liaise with internal staff and external leaseholders to discuss any queries relating to service charge.
• Produce comprehensive commentary on budgets and financial reports to give clarity on the building expenditure to internal management and external leaseholders.

What you will bring:Ideally, the successful candidate will have:

• Strong Excel skills
• A keen interest in maths, accounting and financial analysis.
• Excellent written and spoken communication
• Highly organised and able to use own initiative
• Great attention to detail
• A personable character who can easily build good relationships with internal colleagues and external clients.
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn.
• Professionalism in both attitude and personal presentation

Location: Manchester officeDepartment: FinanceContract type: PermanentHours: Full Time, 9.30am – 5.00pm Monday to Thursday / 9.30am – 4.30pm FridaySalary: £21,000 – £23,000 per annumBenefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an investment in your on-going training and development.You may have experience of the following: Finance Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Finance Officer, Accounts Assistant, Property Sales, Service Charges, Account Manager, Finance Account Manager, Accounts, Collections Agent, Block Management, Estate Agency, Administrator, etc.REF-