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About the Role
As a Finance Manager at JLL, you will serve as a strategic finance business partner to Property Managers, overseeing financial operations and reporting for commercial assets. This role requires technical accounting leadership, relationship management, and ensuring compliance with Trust Accounting and Property Accounting policies. You will manage month-end processes, balance sheet reconciliations, budget preparation, and lead finance training sessions. This position is vital for accurate and timely financial stewardship, supporting JLL's mission of shaping a brighter way forward.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with JLL Property Managers and Client Directors as their key finance business partner.
- Deliver comprehensive monthly financial reports, lead team reviews, and provide strategic insights.
- Prepare and process journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, incentive amortization journals, and IFRS rent smoothing reporting.
- Perform annual tenant outgoing reconciliations and coordinate with outgoing auditors.
- Lead the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, contributing analytical insights.
- Assist Client Directors with portfolio arrears reporting and other strategic financial analyses.
- Manage GST reconciliations, monthly management fees, and client remittances.
- Review purchase orders over three months for validity.
- Lead and facilitate monthly finance training sessions.
- Transition new properties into the portfolio and manage cease management processes.
- Ensure strict adherence to JLL's internal compliance processes, including preparation of six-monthly internal audit checklists.
- Coordinate with clients regarding annual audits.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum 5-7 years of property accounting or trust accounting experience.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities in commercial real estate.
- Strong understanding of Trust Accounting and Property Accounting principles, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Proven experience managing financial reports, balance sheet reconciliations, and complex journal entries across multiple properties.
- Solid knowledge of GST compliance, reporting requirements, and IFRS rent smoothing principles.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor finance team members.
- Experience conducting training sessions or knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Proficiency in accounting software and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to leverage technology for process improvement.
- Excellent attention to detail with a proven track record of maintaining accuracy in high-volume, deadline-driven environments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build effective relationships across teams, with clients, and with senior stakeholders.
- CA, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification (preferred).
- Experience coordinating internal and external audits, with strong knowledge of compliance frameworks and audit processes (preferred).
Skills
- Property accounting
- Trust accounting
- Financial reporting
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Journal entries
- Budget preparation
- GST compliance
- IFRS rent smoothing
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Training
- Accounting software proficiency
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Process improvement
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Relationship building
- Audit coordination
Location
- On-site – Sydney, NSW
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- CA, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification (preferred)
Benefits
- Great employee discounts off fitness, wellbeing & other renowned brands
- 18 weeks paid maternity leave
- Private Health Insurance Discounts
- Active Social Club
- Employee assistant program
- Novated Lease for EV cars
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Career Opportunities with Australia's #1 Commercial Real Estate firm
- Premium offices
About the Company
- JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.
- Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients.
- We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.
- Shaping the future of real estate for a better world.
- At JLL, we see a Brighter Way forward for our clients, our people, our planet, and our communities.
- With over 200 years of real estate experience, we are, and always have been, in continual pursuit of brighter ways of working.
- We bring to life a Brighter Way in all that we do by seeking better, smarter, more innovative ways of working.
- We approach our work in a warmer, more optimistic, and inclusive way.
- JLL is a global leader in helping clients envision where people will live, work, play, shop, and eat.
Equal Opportunity
- As an organisation, we don’t just accept that we are a place of many different people, but we embrace it, we celebrate it, and we proactively support the needs that difference brings.
- JLL is committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation or disability, and that is why, for more than a decade, we continue to rank among the World’s Most Ethical Companies.
- We are dedicated to offering veterans from all ranks and services a successful civilian career as they transition out of the military.
- We recognise and appreciate the skills acquired in their service careers as vital and transferable to our workforce.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.