Our client in the residential space is looking for a Corporate Accountant to join their team on a full time permanent basis. The Corporate Accountant will play a key role within the corporate accounting team. This individual will assist with the month-end cycle, treasury, and budgeting process. The ideal candidate will be an entry-level accounting professional with strong attention to detail, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and a desire to learn and grow. This role reports directly to the Senior Corporate Accountant
Roles and Responsibilities
Corporate Accounting
- Support the month-end cycle through chargebacks, accruals, maintenance of balance sheet schedules, and departmental reporting for the company and its subsidiaries.
- Reconcile and clear inter-company receivables and balance sheet accounts.
- Provide audit support and documentation as needed.
- Assist with ad-hoc projects as requested by Senior Management.
Treasury
- Create inter-company transfers and wire payments to external parties via the online banking platform.
- Maintain cashflow transactions by posting bank reconciliations.
- Coordinate with the Property Accounting Team and financial institutions.
Budgeting
- Support the annual corporate budgeting process.
- Coordinate with various departments and regions during the budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of budget templates.
Qualifications and Skills
- Degree in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum of 2 year of work experience in a Corporate Accounting or Financial Analyst
- Role
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office tools – i.e. Excel/PowerPoint and working
- knowledge in PowerPivot is preferred
- Interested or working towards CPA designation, is considered as an asset
- Knowledge of Yardi considered an asset.
- Excellent communication is required. Ability to speak other languages is considered
- an asset.
- Actively championing diversity and inclusion.
- A professional demeanor and coupled with strong communication skills both written
- and verbal.
- Demonstrates a high degree of integrity, diplomacy, discretion, and confidentiality.
- Ability to accurately listen, understand and respond appropriately.
- Ability to work and act independently using good judgment when assessing difficult
- situations.
- Ability to remain calm and focused in high pressure situations.
- Self-motivated individual who is proactive, takes initiative, goal and results oriented
- and work independently without a lot of direction.
- Superior organizational and time management skills in order to multi-task/prioritize
- and work under tight timelines to meet multiple deadlines.
- Flexible with a “can-do” attitude and a “no task is too big or too small” attitude.
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities.
- Superior attention to detail and accuracy and excellent follow-up skills