Job Description

About the Role
A leading organization is seeking a Senior Project Accountant to manage the financial responsibilities of a portfolio of development projects and properties

The successful candidate will collaborate with multiple departments, including development, construction, property management, accounting, and finance.

What you will do:

• Provide support and oversight on the budget, forecast, financial reporting, and analysis of a portfolio of projects and properties.
• Coordinate with multiple managers across the organization to monitor project costs, assist in resolving variances, and verify assumptions are sound.
• Support project managers through the full project lifecycle from initial setup, monitoring, updating, and closing.
• Ensure projects, budgets, and commitments are accurately set up in accordance with agreements and project cost codes.
• Monitor lender and equity-funded portions of projects and maintain up-to-date cash flow projections from pre-development to completion.
• Prepare and submit construction loan draws and liaise with project quantity surveyors and lenders.
• Monitor, review, forecast, and reconcile project budgets, holdback accounts, construction loan draw requests, and invoices.
• Monitor cash and prepare funding requests to ensure sufficient funds to satisfy project obligations.
• Generate internal and external reporting packages for management, development partners, and financial institutions.
• Prepare financial and performance reporting packages tailored to the business needs of key stakeholders and management.

About You

• Designated CPA with five or more years of accounting experience in real estate, development, and construction.
• Proficiency in Yardi and Microsoft Office suite.
• Expertise in long-term, complex, multi-phase development projects.
• Comprehension of legal entity organizational structures.
• Experience with cash management, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Ability to create complex financial models and present project information to various management levels.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with all levels of the business.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Outstanding ability to multi-task and maintain attention to detail.
• Capable of working independently and collaboratively with various colleagues.