Senior Property Accountant
Londres, Royaume-Uni ;ABOUT GREYSTAR
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in nearly 250 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages over 1,000,000 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of nearly $78 billion of assets under management, including over $35 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
JOB DESCRIPTION
Fixed Term contract - 12 months.
Role Responsibilities:
- Ensure delivery of accurate management accounts, VAT returns and outsourced services are provided on a timely basis and comply with venture and statutory deadlines.
- Business partner with Operations and Asset Management teams to give analysis of the financial performance of the assets and highlight opportunities for improvement/change.
- Review of financial information applied by the Outsource Partner on accounting system.
- Engagement of bank level authorisation of payments of service providers and suppliers (second approval in line with delegated authority).
- Review of Bank reconciliations, cash book monitoring and banking duties.
- Review of Balance Sheet packs including - accruals, prepayment and journal postings.
- Review reports and supporting schedules including accruals and prepayments.
- First review of month end reporting packs produced by the Outsource Partner, providing feedback and holding them to account for accuracy.
- Review of Operational budget variance analysis, partnering with the Operations teams on the preparation, delivery and timeliness of variance commentary.
- Provide direction and guidance on accounting treatment to the Outsource Accountant at the PropCo and OpCo level for consistency.
- Partner with Investment Accounting team on delivery of financials and commentary, coordination of property valuation postings, annual budgets, and external reports for owned assets and third-party assets.
- Provision of investor information (cash distribution, capital calls) and reporting on 3rd party mandates.
- First review of subsidiary audited financial statements prepared by external Partner.
- Prepare property level accounting memos as appropriate.
- Coordinate with Outsource Partner during annual audit process with external auditor.
- Onboarding of new assets - set-up of operational systems, banking platforms etc.
- Completes various financial, accounting, narrative, administrative and other reports and analysis and duties as assigned or necessary for the successful execution of the business plans.
- To constantly develop improvements in quality of information and working practices, within the organisation and with the Outsource Partner.
- As Senior Property Accountant, provide technical and other support to the Property Accountants within the Operational Quality Assurance team on an ad hoc basis.
- Provide support to Financial Controller, Operational Quality Assurance as required.
Knowledge & Qualifications:
- Good level of general education with strong written and numerical skills.
- Qualified Accountant.
- Proficiency in Excel and Word.
- Experience with Yardi (preferred).
- Basic understanding of VAT and Company Structures.
Experience & Skills:
- Experience of working in a similar role within a fast-paced multi-site business ideally within the Real Estate or Student Accommodation sector.
- Strong team working and interpersonal skills necessary to build stakeholder relationships with desire to learn, train and develop in the role.
- A positive team player, with an adaptable and flexible approach along with ability to work collaboratively to drive results and support the wider team and business objectives.
- Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.
- Accurate, organised, methodical, deadline focused and committed.
- Ability to manipulate and sort large volume of data in excel.
- Good communicator, with the ability to review and interpret and present complex financial data.
- Ability to meet multiple deadlines and multi-tasking are essential, using initiative to prioritise.
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