Client Accounts Apprentice (Leeds)

About the team:

The team consists of six members: one Associate Director, four Client Accountants, and one Apprentice. We are a close-knit team; working collaboratively to support each other and ensure we meet our clients’ expectations.

Day to day duties:

The purpose of this role is to support the management of property data and the control of client funds held on behalf of investors, ensuring the effective administration of property portfolios. As an Apprentice Accounts Assistant, you will work as part of a team of Client Accountants, providing administrative and financial support across a range of tasks and responsibilities. The client portfolio includes national contracts managed from local offices. While Savills primarily uses MRI for client information and property management activities, the role may also require working with one or more client-specific property management systems.

Key tasks and responsibilities include the following:

• Maintain housekeeping of Property & Lease data and financial data on databases
• Assist the Client Accountants in reporting to clients (standard reports plus additional as required)
• Ensure accurate reconciliation of client reports (i.e. VAT, client statement etc.)
• Site Income Reconciliations
• Maintain professional working relationships with internal and external clients and ensure that good client service is delivered
• Other miscellaneous administration tasks as required
• Ad-hoc tasks instructed by Client Accounts Team Leader and Head of Property Finance UK
• Prepare Instructions for Treasury department (following the relevant approvals) of the following:

a. Demand recharges of costs incurred from Tenants
b. Transfer of Rent monies to client
c. Amendments to Client Accounts
d. Payment of client property related transactions working with team property administrator on quarterly budget reports and forecasts
e. General maintenance of client funds i.e. tenant refunds etc
f. Processing of purchase invoices

In addition to the tasks described above, the job holder may be required to carry out other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Good organisational skills
• Word and Excel capabilities
• Good written, presentation and numerical skills are essential
• Excellent communication skills
• Diligent and detail driven
• Able to work individually and as part of a team
• Punctual, reliable, keen and enthusiastic
• Thirst for knowledge and self-motivated
• Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.