Reports to: Senior Project Accountant
Position Summary
The Project Accountant supports the financial tracking, analysis, and reporting of project-related activity across York Group’s commercial real estate portfolio. This role focuses on maintaining strong cost controls, improving internal processes, and providing accurate, timely financial information to support operational decision-making.
Working closely with the Accounting team and internal stakeholders, the Project Accountant delivers project-level financial insight related to tenant improvements, landlord work, and other property-related initiatives within a commercial real estate environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Senior Project Accountant/Controller to maintain accurate and detailed project accounting across the commercial real estate portfolio.
- Support the Senior Project Accountant with budget-to-actual tracking, variance analysis, and reporting for project-related costs
- Maintain oversight of project budgets, quarterly forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting in collaboration with internal stakeholders
- Track project-related purchase orders, change orders, and cost commitments
- Project related accounting tracking of development project new builds, tenant improvements, and landlords work in new and existing buildings
- Prepare monthly project accruals and ensure costs are recorded accurately and in the appropriate accounting periods
- Prepare and distribute monthly and quarterly stakeholder reporting.
- Prepare project-related Work in Progress (WIP) reporting, where applicable, and support internal review processes.
- Draft project related financing requests to Quality Surveyors (QS) to facilitate draws from construction lenders
- Assist with process improvements and implementation.
- Provide guidance to Property Administrators on project-related tenant chargebacks and cost allocations
- Other ad hoc tasks as assigned by the Controller, 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
- Ability to deliver a message to a large group
- Ability to work collaboratively with a positive attitude
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