Job Title
Property Accountant
Job Description Summary
The Property Accountant is responsible for delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and outgoings reconciliations for a portfolio of commercial real estate properties managed by Cushman & Wakefield. This role partners closely with Property Managers and Operations teams to ensure financial integrity, compliance with client reporting requirements, and effective portfolio performance analysis.
Job Description
About the Role:
- Prepare and deliver accurate monthly financial reports, ensuring compliance with client reporting requirements and established deadlines.
- Produce monthly reporting packages, including balance sheet reconciliations, profit and loss analysis, and variance commentary support for Property Managers.
- Perform month-end accounting activities, including accruals, journals, prepayments, adjustments, and analysis of property income and expenses.
- Partner with Operations and Property Management teams to develop annual budgets, forecasts, and periodic portfolio reforecasts.
- Prepare annual outgoings estimates and reconciliations (wash-ups), ensuring accurate recovery calculations and tenant charge allocations.
About You:
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in commercial property accounting or real estate finance.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting, general ledger accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and reconciliations.
- Experience using MRI, JDE, or similar property management/accounting ERP systems.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, data analysis, and reporting.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently and meet strict deadlines.
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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