Rendall & Rittner
Senior Portfolio Accountant
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SENIOR PORTFOLIO ACCOUNTANT
Rendall & Rittner
Highly Competitive
Hybrid - London (Vauxhall)
Role Overview
You will play a pivotal role in delivering timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting across a diverse residential portfolio, ensuring our clients and residents receive an exceptional, transparent service. As a trusted partner to operational teams and client directors, you will turn numbers into clear actions, strengthening financial discipline, cashflow, and compliance.
This is a hybrid role with meaningful flexibility and collaboration: you will spend two days per week in our London office at 13B St George Wharf, London SW8 2LE, and the rest working from home. You will bring a calm, solutions-focused approach, shaping better ways of working and raising standards across the portfolio.
ROLE EXPECTATIONS
Most days, you will own the end-to-end accounting cycle for your portfolio—completing month-end close, reconciliations, service charge accounts, and insightful variance analysis. You will regularly partner with Property Managers and Client Directors, resolve queries with pace, and lead smooth year-end and audit processes. You will also drive process improvements and strengthen controls.
What Success Looks Like
- Service charge accounts and year-end packs delivered right first time and on or ahead of deadline.
- Clean audits with minimal adjustments and clear, professional communication with auditors and clients.
- Robust cashflow management: accurate reconciliations, timely income recovery, and well-controlled spend.
- Insightful reporting that informs decisions, highlights risks early, and surfaces actionable opportunities.
- Strong partnerships with operational teams and clients, evidenced by trust and positive feedback.
- Continuous improvement realized through simplified processes, better controls, and smarter reporting.
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How You'll Spend Most Of Your Time
- Producing accurate service charge accounts, month-end close, journals, accruals/prepayments, and bank reconciliations.
- Preparing budgets and forecasts with clear commentary and variance analysis for stakeholders.
- Leading the year-end timetable, liaising with auditors, preparing working papers, and resolving queries.
- Partnering with Property Managers and Client Directors to manage financial performance and cashflow.
- Monitoring debtor balances, overseeing supplier payments, and strengthening control environments.
- Improving processes and reporting, leveraging systems and Excel to increase accuracy and efficiency.
Who This Role Is For
- You take ownership for outcomes, balance detail with pragmatism, and communicate clearly with non-finance stakeholders.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, service-led environment and can prioritize across multiple sites and deadlines.
- You are analytically strong, curious about the “why,” and turn data into practical recommendations.
- You build trust quickly, handle challenging queries with empathy, and follow through until resolution.
- You enjoy improving processes and sharing knowledge to uplift team capability.
Experience That Helps
- Experience in residential property or service charge accounting, or other multi-entity/portfolio environments.
- Familiarity with property accounting systems (e.g., Qube, MRI, Yardi) and strong Excel skills.
- Track record of delivering year-end accounts and supporting external audits.
- Exposure to cashflow management, debtor control, and supplier payment processes.
- Involvement in process improvement, automation, or reporting enhancements.
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What We Offer
- Competitive salary, aligned to experience
- Discretionary bonus
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance, life assurance, and enhanced family leave
- Fully funded training and professional development
- Paid sabbaticals as a loyalty reward
- Pension scheme and employee assistance program
- Discounts across travel, retail, fitness, and entertainment
About Rendall & Rittner
Rendall & Rittner is one of the UK's most established and highly accredited residential leasehold property management companies, managing over 90,000 homes nationwide. Founded in 1990 on the belief that property management should be more professional, transparent, and customer-focused, those principles still drive how we operate today as a founding partner of Odevo.
We are people-led and technology-enabled, investing heavily in our teams, systems, and continuous improvement. Our standards are recognized through Investors in People Platinum, regulation by RICS and the FCA, and multiple industry awards, including Property Manager of the Year and Managing Agent of the Year.
How We Hire
- Initial conversation with our talent team
- Interview focused on your portfolio ownership, technical accounting depth (service charge and multi-entity), stakeholder communication, problem-solving, and approach to controls, audits, and process improvement
We aim to complete the process within two to three weeks and communicate clearly throughout.
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