Bread & Butter Collective
Property Accountant
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Property Accountant (Remote)
PERMANENT POSITION
The Company
Bread & Butter Collective is a remote-first specialist student lettings and property management business. We manage around 1,200 rooms across Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol, Exeter, Falmouth and London, looking after everything from first enquiry to move-in and beyond.
We like doing things a little differently, and we're proud of it. If you enjoy digging into data, spotting the story behind the numbers, and being part of a close-knit, ambitious team, you'll fit right in.
Your Role as a Property Accountant
Your role will include the following:
- Preparation of monthly management accounts for our property portfolios, ensuring all costs are coded correctly and presenting actual results against budgets and forecasts. This includes revenue recognition, accruals, and prepayments.
- Financial analysis, such as capital and development spend.
- Reconciliation of bank accounts and merchant services card accounts.
- Administration of annual budgets and forecasts.
- Property finance, including negotiating and administering utilities contracts, and evaluating utilities spend and consumption.
- Administration of council tax.
- Sales invoicing and recharging across group companies.
- Covering for the Purchase Ledger Supervisor.
- VAT returns.
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Experience and Skills Required
- +2 years of general accounting experience, including working across all ledgers or within different areas of finance.
- Experience assisting with management accounts preparation, including accruals and prepayments.
- Proven history of working with Excel spreadsheets and large volumes of data.
- Confident with technology, and keen to learn new systems.
To be successful you will be comfortable managing routine tasks with precision while embracing complex challenges.
Experience and Skills Desirable
- Full management accounts preparation, including revenue recognition and variance analysis.
- Qualified or part-qualified in a recognised accountancy qualification such as the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), or Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
- Familiarity with Xero accounting software.
- Finance experience in a property environment.
- Experience working with Claude or other AI tools, including integrations with other software.
- Experience with the property management system, such as TRAMPS or similar tool (our system is bespoke).
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What Can We Offer You?
- Salary: £32,000 to £39000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.
- Flexible working hours and largely home working (infrequent travel to Cirencester and Cheltenham for meetings and events on an ad-hoc basis).
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and 5 discretionary company Christmas days.
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme.
- Study support if applicable.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for applicants who do not have the current right to work in the UK.
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