Property Accountant

Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated Accountant with specific operational commercial experience. The candidate will be responsible for a portfolio of buildings, encompassing property financial analysis, performance management, budgets, forecasts, and operations (leasing & facilities).

Responsibilities:

• Collate information to analyse income and expenses of the properties and provide comments against budgets.
• Ensure accruals are raised where some income and expense items are outstanding or not recorded accordingly.
• Identify any misallocations in the ledger and ensure corrections are processed in a timely manner.
• Review recoveries (municipals and other expenses). Take corrective measures where there are significant over or under recoveries.
• Track all municipal queries and highlight the impact on the income statement and balance sheet once resolved.
• Ensure all rentals being billed are in accordance with leases and expenses paid are in accordance with signed SLAs.
• Analyse property performance for decision-making on improving Property Net Operating Income.
• Develop, implement, and manage property budgets and forecasts in collaboration with the Leasing and Facilities teams.
• Work with Leasing and Facilities teams in managing the property budgets.
• Provide valuable input in the preparation of management accounts, quarterly reports, and annual financial statements.
• Assist with Debtors & Creditors Management.
• Assist the facilities team in managing the property asset registers and managing consumables stock.
• Prepare underlying working papers for external audit purposes.
• Monitor and report on accounting discrepancies.
• Undertake any other tasks as assigned by management.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting.
• Minimum of 3 years of commercial property experience.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Experience with SAGE.
• Experience with MDA.