About the Role:
Fitzrovia is seeking to hire an Accounting Coordinator to join our team. The Accounting Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing the full-cycle accounting process for multiple multi-residential properties. This role is best suited for eager individuals who want to work in fast-paced and complex work environment, with strong team working capabilities.
At Fitzrovia, we pride ourselves on being an entrepreneurial and innovative organization, which makes this role well suited for a candidate looking to roll up their sleeves, wear multiple hats and contribute to all aspects of real estate investment and development.
As we are a highly collaborative team, this role is on-site full-time, and the successful candidate will be required to work in the office Monday to Friday.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receiving and verifying invoices for various projects and corporate subsidiaries
- Prioritizing invoices according to payment terms
- Verifying cost codes and classification of expenses
- Entering invoices for payment in a timely manner and ensuring accuracy of information
- Reconciling holdback accounts
- Reconciling vendor statements, researching, and correcting discrepancies, as needed
- Reconciling bank accounts
- Paying invoices on time – coordinating weekly and monthly cheque runs or as required
- Managing corporate credit card reconciliations
- Matching invoices to cheques
- Circulating cheques for signature and tracking status of same
- Processing wire transfers and other types of online payments
- Logging cheques for distribution
- Preparing vendor cheques for mailing
- Contacting creditors with questions or concerns in relation to bills and responding to all vendor inquiries
- Monitoring vendor and trade insurance and communicating requirements to various departments
- Assisting with accounting setup and preparing banking documents for new project and corporate entities
- Performing other related duties, as assigned
Qualifications and Experiences:
- Bachelors degree, Diploma or Certificate in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
- Currently enrolled or plans to enroll in the CPA PEP Program
- 2-4 years of experience in an Accounting or Finance related role
- Experience in Real Estate Development or Construction is a very strong asset
- Excellent time management and organization skills with strong attention to detail
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills with the ability to leverage your team and resources to generate solutions
- Demonstrates leadership qualities and initiative; able to confidently ask questions and stand your ground when dealing with difficult clients/partners.
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of staff, management, and executive
- Self-motivated, curious, responsive, and result driven.
- Team player, who takes pride in their work
Why Fitzrovia:
Fitzrovia is a vertically integrated development and asset manager focused on Class-A and vintage-style apartment buildings across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Montreal. Fitzrovia provides best-in-class development, construction, property and asset management with a focus on design, active lifestyle management and exceptional customer service.
Fitzrovia partners with public institutions, pension funds and high net worth investors who have a bias towards long-term cash flow generating assets. The company is the largest developer of purpose-built rental apartments in Canada with over $9 billion of assets under management.
We focus on our people and our culture, and offer a competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunities. Fitzrovia’s commitment to hospitality is at the core of our DNA. To learn more about Fitzrovia, our people and our properties, visit www.fitzrovia.ca.
Fitzrovia is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please reach us at careers@fitzrovia.ca.
