What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Accountant position at York Group?
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Position Summary
The Project Accountant provides analysis and reporting of Yorks properties, leading to the improvement of internal cost controls and efficiency, and driving fact-based decision-making. This individual provides financial analysis to a collaborative team focused on constant improvement to provide best in class service to our tenants and internal clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with the Jr Controller to maintain a strong level of detail over day-to-day project accounting, development accounting and some corporate accounting requirements.
- Assisting the Jr Controller in maintaining budget to actual reporting and tracking.
- High involvement of project budgets, quarterly forecasting and quarterly reporting and support in preparation of project plans with various stakeholders.
- Maintenance of project tracking purchase and change orders
- Project related accounting tracking of development project, new builds, tenant improvements, and landlords work in new and existing buildings
- Prepare monthly project accruals as required
- Prepare and distribute monthly and quarterly stakeholder reporting.
- Prepare and collaborate with the Construction Manager on monthly Work in Progress (WIP) reporting.
- Drafting project related financing requests to Quality Surveyors (QS) to facilitate draws from construction lenders
- Assist with process improvements and implementation.
- Direct property administrators in project related chargebacks to tenants as required.
- Other ad hoc tasks as assigned by the Senior Accountant, VP Accounting, and COO
What you bring to York
- Education with a diploma or degree majoring in accounting
- Minimum 5 years project accounting preferred
- Minimum 2 years experience in construction or commercial real estate preferred
- Ability to forge, grow and maintain positive relationships with multiple groups
- Ability to remain objective and maintain a factual perspective when dealing with questions and inquiries
- Sense of urgency and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet the time demands of unpredictable activities, capable of handling pressure and challenges in a dynamic business environment
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, and a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
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