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About the Role
Serve as the primary finance business partner to the client's finance team and Property Managers, leading day-to-day accounting operations and ensuring timely, accurate financial reporting while driving continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage day-to-day accounting operations in collaboration with the Portfolio Accountant
- Set, manage, and monitor annual performance goals and KPIs
- Mentor, coach, and develop team members to enhance their capabilities and performance
- Lead and actively participate in monthly finance training sessions
- Deliver comprehensive financial reports for a portfolio of assets
- Coordinate with Property Managers on month-end reporting requirements
- Process and approve journal entries, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations
- Prepare IFRS rent smoothing and incentive amortisation journals
- Conduct annual tenant outgoings recovery reconciliations and liaise with outgoings auditors
- Support the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
- Ensure full compliance with Trust Accounting and Property Accounting policies and procedures
- Maintain adherence to JLL's internal compliance processes, including six-monthly internal audit checklists
- Coordinate with clients regarding information flow for annual audits
- Manage property transitions, including onboarding new properties and processing cease management
- Process client remittances accurately and efficiently
- Act as Level 1 MRI support for day-to-day Client Accounting Services team functions
- Liaise with client finance teams on all property accounting matters
Requirements
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA, CPA, or equivalent)
- 8+ years of progressive experience in property and trust accounting, financial reporting, and statutory compliance
- Demonstrated experience managing small teams in a managerial or team lead capacity
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles
- Prior experience in the real estate or construction industry
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build relationships across all organisational levels
- Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities
- Process-oriented mindset with a passion for standardisation and consolidation of finance functions
- Self-starter with a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and proactive approach
- Proven ability to prioritise and deliver multiple projects efficiently under tight deadlines
- Collaborative team player who fosters productive relationships across diverse, multicultural teams
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Accounting principles
- Property accounting
- Trust accounting
- Financial reporting
- Statutory compliance
- Team management
- Interpersonal skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Process orientation
- Prioritization
- Project delivery
- Collaboration
Location
- Sydney, NSW
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Chartered Accountant (CA, CPA, or equivalent)
Benefits
- Great employee discounts off fitness, wellbeing & other renowned bands
- 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.
- Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
- 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.
- You’ll join an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. One where the best inspire the best. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things.
- Join us to develop your strengths and enjoy a fulfilling career full of varied experiences.
- Keep those ambitions in sight and imagine where JLL can take you.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services.
- We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously.
- Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process.
- We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons.
- We will then delete it safely and securely.
- For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement.
- For additional details please see our career site pages for each country.
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.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at HRSCLeaves@jll.com.
- This email is only to request an accommodation.
- Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.