Pros
1. Working from home - this is standard for all portfolio accountants. 2. The company looks towards the future by understands that there is no best accounting system and is working on developing a system in house.
Cons
1. The workload - Depending on which team you’re in, you may have 6 developments up to 20. This would be fine if the developments didn’t have outstanding debtors / creditors from 5+ years ago. It seems as if the directors don’t care so much about the debtors / creditors and more on the year end accounts. It isn’t uncommon to have to work weekends just to get issues sorted. 2. Property Managers - I have never been at a company that has had property managers this bad at accounts (or maths / IT in general). You are typically the go to for any number / IT issue for the property manager (which would be fine if you didn’t have a full workload) and the queries can be very minor that you’d think anyone can answer such as “help me understand a statement or convert this excel file to pdf”. I can only think that the property manager side is badly staffed with too many awful property managers in high positions of the company. 3.Clients / owners - Some of them that you work with are absolutely bitter, screaming at the smallest of issues and you wonder why the business doesn’t raise the fee or give up management of the development. 4. High turnover - very high turnover in certain teams leading to a negative attitude which doesn’t help since you’re working from home and you can’t really get to know other teams.