Property Accountant - Senior

My client, a huge Asset Owner is seeking a contractor for 6-9 months (most probably longer) to join their Residential Property Accounting team.

Job Description

• Be responsible, in conjunction with colleagues, for the accounting book of records of direct real estate portfolio including residential, commercial, rural, strategic land, timber and minerals.

• Ensure acquisitions, disposals, revaluations, income, expenses and other transactions are accurately reflected in the accounting system SAP.

• Review the information supplied by the managing agents relating to income collection and expenses paid to ensure completeness and accuracy of the data.

• Work with the Investment Operations team to manage daily treasury function i.e. acquisitions, sales, calls, distributions to ensure the Commissioners' cash is accurately managed

• Work with the Property Finance manager to perform quarter-end and year end close accounting procedures and post monthly journals to NCI's ERP system, SAP for various property portfolios.

• Assist in the production of management reporting for asset managers on a monthly/quarterly/adhoc basis and to track and report direct asset management costs against budget.

• Assist in preparing year end audit schedules to support annual audit and financial statements.

• Attend regular service review meetings with the managing agents and discuss queries/ issues/ requests. Document the meeting minutes and feedback to the Property Finance manager and the Head of Investment Accounting on the progress.

• Assist in managing agent change project. This will include:

• Work with the Contract and Vendor Manager and the Head of the Investment Accounting to ensure managing agents SLA details all the data and reporting requirements clearly.

• Work with the managing agents (both existing and new) to ensure data has been accurately transitioned by performing necessary checks and controls.

• Prepare necessary reconciliations of data between the ERP systems and agents' data to ensure the migration is successful. Present the reconciliations for sign off by the Head of Investment Accounting

• Post Go-live, ensuring reporting from managing agents as documented in the SLA are being accurately delivered

• Keeping the stakeholders informed on the transition process so that there are no unintended impacts.

• Ensure there are necessary procedure documents in the place for the work being performed