Accounts Payable Clerk – Expiring soon!

About us

We are LiFE Residential and we’re one of the London’s leading privately-owned real estate agencies. We specialise in newly build developments, and we have deep partnerships with global and national property developers, including Galliard Homes and City & Docklands.

We look after 4500 homes across London and have 8 branches across the city, and two international offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. We’re always on the lookout for anyone passionate about helping us give best in class service to our property owners, residents, and partners.

About the role

The Accounts Payable team manages and processes all Service Charge, Ground Rent, Utility etc. invoices received for our client portfolio. They provide support to the client accounts team and are vital for the smooth-running of the department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the service charge and ground rents to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted.
• Processing invoices.
• Dealing with utility bills, including working with suppliers to rework bills.
• Creation and posting of communal energy recharges to the tenants.
• Maintaining the accuracy of supplier details, liaising with supplier, and building relationships.
• Setting up New Suppliers onto Reapit.
• Assisting in supplier reconciliations.
• Proactively managing and responding to finance queries via telephone and email, escalating where necessary.
• Exporting data onto spreadsheet reports.
• Other general office duties as required including ad hoc duties for Manager.

Skills Required:

• Highly motivated and able to apply initiative to tasks
• Ability to process large volumes of accounting data timely and accurately
• Ability to work under pressure
• Solid accounts background
• Organisation is key
• Good IT skills particularly MS Excel.
• Strong levels of customer service, both internal and external.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all dealings and correspondence.
• Able to demonstrate initiative along with a ‘can do’ approach

The job description is a list of tasks clearly illustrating the duties that you are required to perform and may vary depending on the needs of the business. This list is by no means an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The role may evolve and more responsibilities could be added to the current job description or delegated as and when necessary.