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Service Charge Accountant One day a month in the office. The rest, remote. Hubs in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, North East, Lancashire I’ll get the unique bit out of the way first: one day a month in the office. The rest is yours to work wherever suits. In 2026, that is genuinely not easy to find. This is a newly created Service Charge Accountant role with a multi-site housing association I've worked with for years. Full disclosure — I've placed several people there over time, and the ones I'm still in touch with are all still there, with no expression of interest in exploring opportunities elsewhere. That doesn't happen by accident. It's a combination of how they not only embrace home working, they *actually* do it well, without compromising on building strong team relationships. They just know how to do it beyond physically being sat next to someone. Why this role exists Nobody's left. Nothing's broken. No mess to clean up. They're adding capacity because the function is growing and they want to do it properly. You'll get to shape how the role runs rather than inherit someone else's habits.
Job Responsibility
Leading the budget process across all schemes, with accurate cost allocation to schemes and account codes
Year-end scheme accounts through to audit sign-off, including all year-end adjustments
Monthly forecasting of service charge income and expenditure in the management accounts
S20 data, S21 accounts and S22 provision
Balance sheet reconciliations including reserve funds and associated bank movements
Coaching and mentoring a Service Charge Officer – a leadership element without a big team to weigh you down
Developing system-based reports that give internal stakeholders genuine insight
Leading on customer complaints and enquiries with a responsive, customer-focused approach
Requirements
In-depth understanding of service charge legislation and regulation, especially around leaseholders and homeowners
Comfort with budget preparation under tight deadlines
Audit and year-end experience
Knowledge of leasehold, shared ownership and freehold tenure types
AAT minimum, with study support if you want to push on to CIMA or ACCA. Already part-qualified or qualified? Even better — but they're buying the service charge knowledge first, the letters after your name second
Strong Excel and the ability to handle large data sets
What we offer
Salary – £38,000
35 hour working week
A Defined Benefit pension scheme (7.5% colleague contribution). Only around 4% of DB schemes in the UK are still open to new members. As a finance person, you'll know exactly what that's worth — or there's a 4% matched DC scheme if you prefer
28 days' holiday + bank holidays, rising to 33 with service
Your birthday off — every year, on top of everything else
10 extra paid medical days for treatment relating to serious illness, fertility, menopause, gender reassignment and similar — without needing to make the time back
Life assurance at 3x your salary
Health Cash Plan — claim back on dental, optical, physio, prescriptions, consultations and more
Enhanced family leave: 6 weeks full pay then 20 weeks at 50% + SMP for maternity/adoption/shared parental