East London, South Africa
Property Admin Officer
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
1. Leasing Administration
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date tenant files and lease records.
- Ensure all billing corresponds precisely with lease agreements.
- Allocate tenant receipts and process corrections for any misallocations or unidentified receipts daily.
- Verify and approve pre-billing reports for accuracy before the monthly rent roll.
- Issue invoices and statements timeously, ensuring rental, recoveries, and receipts are always accurate.
- Process ad-hoc invoices, account corrections, and refunds as required.
- Manage account terminations and ensure arrears are either collected or handed over for legal collection promptly.
2. Customer Liaison and Collections
- Proactively manage tenant collections while maintaining exceptional customer relationships.
- Collect monthly rentals for the assigned portfolio and ensure adherence to payment terms.
- Regularly reconcile tenant accounts and follow up on outstanding balances daily, weekly, and monthly.
- Address and resolve tenant queries or complaints promptly, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are consistently met.
- Maintain updated tenant contact details and communication logs.
- Record all collection actions on reporting systems and escalate problem accounts for intervention where necessary.
- Arrange and diarise payment plans, following up telephonically as agreed.
- Attend to tenant meetings and maintain a professional, customer-focused approach in all interactions.
3. Accounts Payable and Cashbook Administration
- Accurately process and reconcile all accounts payable transactions for the property portfolio.
- Verify entries and reconcile system reports against account balances to ensure accuracy.
- Record and allocate expenses by cost centre, ensuring invoice details are correctly captured.
- Maintain vendor accounts and ensure all supporting documentation is up to date.
- Perform full cashbook functions, including daily transaction processing and reconciliations between bank and ledger balances.
- Review cashbook transactions for duplicates and promptly resolve reconciling or allocation discrepancies.
- Ensure creditors are paid accurately and on time according to agreed payment terms.