Project Accountant

Position Summary

The Project Accountant provides analysis and reporting of York’s properties, leading to the improvement of internal cost controls and efficiency, and driving fact-based decision-making. This individual provides financial analysis to a collaborative team focused on constant improvement to provide “best in class” service to our tenants and internal clients.


Key Responsibilities

Work closely with the Jr Controller to maintain a strong level of detail over day-to-day project accounting, development accounting and some corporate accounting requirements.
Assist the Jr Controller in maintaining budget to actual reporting and tracking.
High involvement of project budgets, quarterly forecasting and quarterly reporting and support in preparation of project plans with various stakeholders.
Maintenance of project tracking purchase and change orders.
Project related accounting tracking of development project, new builds, tenant improvements, and landlords work in new and existing buildings.
Prepare monthly project accruals as required
Prepare and distribute monthly and quarterly stakeholder reporting.
Prepare and collaborate with the Construction Manager on monthly Work in Progress (WIP) reporting.
Drafting project related financing requests to Quality Surveyors (QS) to facilitate draws from construction lenders
Assist with process improvements and implementation.
Direct property administrators in project related chargebacks to tenants as required.
Other ad hoc tasks as assigned by the Senior Accountant, VP Accounting, and COO

What you bring to York

Education with a diploma or degree majoring in accounting
Minimum 5 years’ project accounting preferred
Minimum 2 years’ experience in construction or commercial real estate preferred
Ability to forge, grow and maintain positive relationships with multiple groups
Ability to remain objective and maintain a factual perspective when dealing with questions and inquiries
Sense of urgency and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet the time demands of unpredictable activities, capable of handling pressure and challenges in a dynamic business environment
Strong analytical, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, and a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail
Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills