Senior Analyst, Property Accounting

At Fiera Capital

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What we are looking for:

The Senior Analyst, Property Accounting plays a critical role in supporting the accurate, timely, and compliant delivery of financial reporting and other key deliverables for Fiera Real Estate's institutional funds. This role requires a detail-oriented and analytical professional who drives the standardization of accounting processes across a diverse network of third-party partners, ensures the integrity of financial and property data, and enables seamless integration across our real estate reporting platform. The Senior Analyst provides in-depth financial analysis and identifies opportunities to optimize processes and workflows. Additionally, this role contributes to data-driven initiatives and a wide range of reporting deliverables essential to the success of the organization. This position will report to the Director, Property Accounting.

Your responsibilities:

• Support a dynamic property accounting process for all institutional funds and portfolios consisting of income-producing properties diversified across major asset classes and properties under development.
• Facilitate all aspects of third-party reporting including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, ensuring adequate controls and compliance with the reporting requirements and accounting standards for each institutional fund.
• Perform detailed financial analysis of property-level results including NOI, CAM & Tax Recoveries, Capital Expenditures,
• Prepare detailed commentary that highlight key trends and variances to verify the accuracy, reliability, and completeness of financial results.
• Process complex accounting entries for transactions such as acquisitions, dispositions, intercompany transfers, fair value adjustments, debt financing arrangements, and reclassification of assets between properties under development and income-producing assets.
• Work closely with third-party partners to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant reporting, addressing operational challenges as they arise.
• Collect, reconcile, and validate large volumes of financial and operational data from third-party partners, including trial balances, tenant accounts receivable, and capital expenditures to ensure reliability and consistency with monthly reporting packages.
• Act as subject matter expert and power-user of the accounting ERP system, applying advanced functionality to enhance reporting and analytics.
• Analyze property data such as occupancy, leasing activity, and tenant rent rolls to support insights related to quarterly reporting, forecasting, and performance.
• Support process improvements and automation initiatives to enhance data quality, streamline workflows, and increase reporting efficiency.
• Support data governance initiatives, monitoring data flow from third parties, enforcing controls, and conducting validation to maintain data integrity.

Must have requirements to be successful in this role:

• 3-5 years of experience within a commercial real estate environment including REITs, national property management services, or investment managers.
• CPA designation or in progress.
• Working knowledge in a wide range of geographies and property types including retail, office, industrial, multi-residential, and development.
• Sound knowledge of commercial real estate concepts including CAM and Tax recoveries, straight-line rent, lease compliance, and occupancy metrics.
• Ability to review and scrutinize output from property accountants including monthly reports, financial statements, variance analysis, recovery calculations, and budgets to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Excellent planning and organization skills with ability to strategize for year-round deliverables and competing priorities.
• Experienced in handling large and complex sets of data aggregated from multiple sources.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel with ability to delivering practical data-driven solutions.
• Advanced proficiency with Yardi is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to IFRS and ASPE accounting principles is considered an asset.
• Exposure to Fund and/or corporate level accounting is considered an asset.
• Exposure to the property valuation and appraisals process is considered an asset.

Additional Information:

• Fiera Capital adheres to a hybrid working environment with 4 days in-office per week.
• The salary range for this position is $70,400 to $80,000. This role is also be eligible for additional compensation, including bonuses and employee benefits. This salary range is for Ontario.

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For all positions in Quebec (Montreal and Laval), proficiency in French, both spoken and written, is mandatory. Working English proficiency is also required in order to serve our offices and clients around the world. 

Fiera Capital subscribes to the principle of employment equity. Our staff is our most valuable asset, and our goal is to create an inclusive and equitable environment where everyone can achieve their true potential.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, or on the basis of disability, genetic information or any other federal, state, or local protected class. Fiera Capital will not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

All staffing decisions, including hiring and promotion decisions, will be based on merit, skills, performance, and business needs. We are pleased to receive applications from qualified individuals from a variety of backgrounds. Job applicants who are individually selected for an interview will be notified that accommodations are available upon request. If a selected participant requests accommodation, Fiera Capital shall consult with the applicant and provide, or arrange for the provision of, suitable accommodation in a manner that considers the applicant's accessibility needs due to disability.

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