Johannesburg: Senior Property Accountant

About the Role

The Senior Property Accountant will be responsible for providing high-quality financial accounting and reporting services to our clients’ entities, ensuring compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication abilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare draft monthly management accounts for review by the Financial Manager, including building-level reporting.
• Review general ledger accounts, journals, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain fixed asset registers and ensure accurate operating expenditure classification.
• Compile audit schedules and support external audit processes.
• Execute all assigned month-end tasks in accordance with our clients’ financial timetable.

• Enforce our clients’ procurement and P2P workflow requirements, ensuring correct documentation and approvals.
• Maintain strong internal controls over financial transactions and supporting evidence.
• Complete VAT reconciliations and submissions and manage SARS correspondence.
• Support financial documentation for utilities accuracy and municipal queries.
• Maintain accurate, complete audit trails across all entities.

• Monitor building-level financial activity, including arrears trends, occupancy-related impacts, utilities variances, and cost behaviour.
• Review rent rolls and monthly management outputs generated via MDA.
• Review and verify utilities recoveries and consumption variances, collaborating with Finance, Operations, and Utilities teams to escalate and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with the integration of financial data for new acquisitions and system transitions.

• Maintain up-to-date reconciliations and payment files to support payment scheduling by the Financial Manager.
• Track vendor balances and highlight irregularities, outstanding issues, or cost spikes.
• Provide accurate financial information required by the Financial Manager to support funding and cashflow planning.
• Assist with monitoring cash movements and ensuring correct allocation of payments and receipts.

• Ensure accurate execution of all financial workflows within our clients’ digital ecosystem.
• Strengthen data quality across finance-related systems by maintaining clean, structured, and accurate inputs.
• Support continuous financial process improvements and help standardise controls across departments.
• Provide system support and guidance to users on finance workflows when required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field (LLB or equivalent not specified).
• 5+ years of experience in property accounting or a related field.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality financial accounting and reporting services.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CIMA, ACCA) not specified.

Salary & Benefits

Salary: Not specified.