Property Manager

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: First Port
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Job role:

Property Manager

Location:

Covering a portfolio of properties in London (central, south-east and east)

Hours:

Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (35 hours per week)

Salary:

£28,888-£36,000 per annum plus £4,500 car allowance

Who are we?

FirstPort is the UK’s leading property management company, caring for our customers’ homes across England, Wales and Scotland. With over four decades of experience and over 3,100 employees, FirstPort works with developers, investors, freeholders and over 1,600 Resident Management Companies.

FirstPort is a member of The Property Institute (TPI) (formerly ARMA & IRPM), the Association of Retirement Housing Managers (ARHM), and Property Managers Association Scotland (PMAS). As well as holding a Five Star Rating from the British Safety Council, FirstPort is an accredited Safe Agent and belongs to The Property Ombudsman.

Main Responsibilities

As a remote manager, you will be autonomous in managing your own diary. You will visit each property at regular intervals and will need to prioritise sites that require more of your time and attention.

Arrange and facilitate regular meetings with key stakeholders within your portfolio, guiding and positively influencing decisions and disputes.

Manage and authorise all expenditure throughout the year, maintaining cash flow to and ensuring value for money for customers and clients whilst reviewing service charge audited accounts and budgets.

Liaise with the credit control function to ensure effective debt management of the portfolio.

Ensure that all the property is managed in accordance with key Health and Safety legislation including Fire Safety, Asbestos and Legionella/water hygiene control regulations.

Conduct comprehensive site inspections and visits of your portfolio ensuring portfolio KPI’s are achieved throughout the year.

Ensure timely delivery of major works and remedial planned works are undertaken whilst managing contracts with affiliated external contractors overseeing their performance and scope of work.

Deliver professional and effective mobilisation and management of new schemes that are brought into FirstPort management.

About you

For this position you

must

be able to drive and have your own transport. Much of your working week will be spent travelling to sites within your portfolio.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed team at a pivotal point. You will be a property management professional, ideally experienced in both block management and housing estates. You will be committed to delivering the best possible service to our residents. You will be commercially astute; able to use data, trend analysis and insights to make decisions. As a confident and articulate communicator; you will be able to build relationships with all types of customers and clients.

You will have a natural ability to effectively chair and present meetings and deliver complex updates and financial information to different audiences. You will have excellent knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and Residential Landlord & Tenant legislation relevant to property management. A TPI qualification is a distinct advantage.

The Benefits

Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We’ll provide you with all the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages depending on the grade of your role, such as private medical insurance, pension contributions and life assurance. In addition, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you, and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health, including discounted gym membership for all colleagues.

Diversity

We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will ensure we make any adjustments that we can to support both through the recruitment and on-boarding process.

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