Property Accountant

Property Accountant

Full Time

Well-established company with a fast-growing property portfolio located in Hazelwood Pretoria, holds a vacancy for a Property Accountant.  This is a new role to support a growing company.

Minimum requirements:

  • Experience in property finance
  • Related financial qualification is beneficial but not required if sufficient experience is demonstrated.
  • MS Excel
  • MDA/MRI Property Management Software experience
  • Driver’s license and own transport
  • Clean ITC and Criminal record, with and commendable references

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Overall administrative / processing tasks related to debtors.
  • Processing and reporting of collection of all debtors’ accounts.
  • Identify and allocate unknown receipts against relevant tenant account.
  • Ensures that all invoices, statements are sent to tenants timeously.
  • Dealing with all (internal and external) tenant queries (on e-mail and telephonically), along with reconciliations when necessary.
  • Reviewing bank recons / cashbooks and reporting on balances.
  • Updating client details on finance systems (bank details, VAT number and registration numbers etc.)
  • Assist with Month-end procedures
  • Ensure that finance operations and documents are processed correctly and timeously.
  • Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Assist with year-end audit requirements.
  • Assist in reconciling intercompany / intergroup transactions.
  • Provides direct support to the Senior Property Accountant and Financial Manager in ensuring that the monthly billing runs smoothly, and all necessary procedures have been performed within specified timeframes.
  • Performs monthly analytics to ensure compliancy and accuracy.

Additional requirements:

  • Strong financial knowledge, analytical thinker with suitable experience in compiling reports utilising and analysing various data sources and to present it in a user-friendly format.
  • Strong financial / numerical ability.
  • Proactive approach.
  • Ability to prioritize and successfully complete multiple tasks.
  • Strong focus on attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Excellent communication skills with people at all levels in an organization and external customers.
  • Must have excellent work ethic – honest, reliable, hardworking, dedicated, takes pride in work carried out.