Property Administrator

Job Description:

The Team & Focus of the Role

We have a new role for a Property Administrator to join our Rural Property Management team based from our Ashby office. The team manages private landed estates across the Midlands as well as non-operational property for a corporate management client. The work involves the management of predominately residential and agricultural portfolios as well as some commercial assets based on the estates.

This hands-on role would suit if you’re from a previous administration background and you’d like to have the ownership of your own workload. The role will be providing support to the estate management team in general administration roles and property maintenance.

Apart from background, we’ll be looking for excellent organisation and relationship building skills between external contacts such as clients, tenants, suppliers and contractors, along with internal relationships with immediate colleagues and wider colleagues across the business.

This is a permanent, full- time opportunity based on 37.5 hours.

In return, beyond your base salary you will be included in:

• A discretionary bonus scheme
• A generous holiday scheme which commences at 25 days with a sliding scale up to 30 days plus an additional day for your birthday, and additional days to cover the festive period!
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• An online money saving portal
• Death In Service cover, alongside access to an Employee Assistance Programme which includes health appoints for you and your family
• Volunteering Leave equating to 2 days per year (pro rata if you’re part-time)

Duties will include:

• Assisting the estate management team with general administration tasks
• Arranging planned and reactive maintenance of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties
• Arranging appointments
• Being a point of contact and directly reporting to our clients and other stakeholders
• Occasional site visits/external meetings
• Inputting onto various property and compliance management systems such as Meridian, Released, Xero & Focal Point
• Creating and maintaining a variety of documentation for property records, such as tenancy agreements, rent review notices, compliance certificates liaising with our central admin hub, capturing efficiencies to improve these processes wherever possible.
• Maintaining our property management and accounting software package (Grosvenor Systems – Propman and Released) and close liaising with our accounts teams to continually ensure accuracy of both management and reporting data, together with processing supplier payments
• Ensuring client files – paper or electronic are managed in adherence with the latest RICS regulations.

The successful candidate will have...

• The ability to work alone and as part of a team, and prioritise tasks
• The appetite to be versatile and able to tackle a variety of different jobs at once
• Experience or be open to learning compliance & property management systems such as Meridian and Released
• Good experience in the use of Word, Excel, SharePoint and MS Teams
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail and communication skills
• The ability to build and maintain positive & proactive relationships with clients & internal stakeholders
• A basic knowledge of buildings and property maintenance
• Full clean driving licence

Why Fisher German?

We’ve been around for a while, but it doesn’t mean we are behind the times! Across our office network we offer a hybrid working approach to help our colleagues design their working day to suit their diaries. Some days you might be in the office enjoying a collaborative team day, and other days might see you focussing on project work at home. Wherever you choose to work, you’ll be part of a social and digitally connected workforce with the chance to get involved in a variety of activities, like sports events, pop-up bars, BBQs, CPD days, live leadership updates on Zoom, picnics in the park and lots more.

What’s not to love? We work hard but we also have lots of fun! If that sounds like something you would enjoy, then please get in touch.

We have a history going back as far as 1830 but have been Fisher German since 2000. We operate UK wide advising and managing a range of client portfolios with national visibility across all the 12-property market sectors; agriculture, commercial, education, green energy & sustainability, healthcare, minerals & waste, public sector, residential, rural, telecoms, third sector and utilities and infrastructure.

Bring Yourself to Work

It’s simple really, we are passionate about what we do, and we want you to be driven to succeed with us. For this to happen, you need to feel supported and included which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer.