1. Purpose of the Role

The Senior Accountant supports our client’s finance operations by delivering accurate monthly reporting, maintaining disciplined reconciliations, enforcing financial controls, and ensuring the quality and integrity of financial workflows across the property portfolio.
The role is execution-focused and provides the Financial Manager with reliable, complete financial data to enable sound decision-making.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Prepare draft monthly management accounts for our client’s entities, including building-level reporting, for review by the Financial Manager.
• Review general ledger accounts, journals, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain fixed asset registers and ensure accurate operating expenditure classification.
• Compile audit schedules and support external audit processes.
• Execute all assigned month-end tasks in accordance with our client’s financial timetable.

B. Compliance & Internal Controls

• Enforce our client’s procurement and P2P workflow requirements, ensuring correct documentation and approvals.
• Maintain strong internal controls over financial transactions and supporting evidence.
• Complete VAT reconciliations and submissions and manage SARS correspondence.
• Support financial documentation for utilities accuracy and municipal queries.
• Maintain accurate, complete audit trails across all entities.

C. Property & Portfolio Accounting

• Monitor building-level financial activity, including arrears trends, occupancy-related impacts, utilities variances, and cost behaviour.
• Review rent rolls and monthly management outputs generated via MDA.
• Review and verify utilities recoveries and consumption variances, collaborating with Finance, Operations, and Utilities teams to escalate and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with the integration of financial data for new acquisitions and system transitions.

D. Treasury Support

• Maintain up-to-date reconciliations and payment files to support payment scheduling by the Financial Manager.
• Track vendor balances and highlight irregularities, outstanding issues, or cost spikes.
• Provide accurate financial information required by the Financial Manager to support funding and cashflow planning.
• Assist with monitoring cash movements and ensuring correct allocation of payments and receipts.
• (The Financial Manager retains ownership of cashflow planning, funding decisions, and payment strategy.)

E. Systems, Data Integrity & Process Improvement

• Ensure accurate execution of all financial workflows within our client’s digital ecosystem.
• Strengthen data quality across finance-related systems by maintaining clean, structured, and accurate inputs.
• Support continuous financial process improvements and help standardise controls across departments.
• Provide system support and guidance to users on finance workflows when required.

F. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Provide accurate financial data and reconciliations to Operations, Property Management, Letting, Maintenance, and Utilities teams.
• Supply the Financial Manager with reliable schedules, variance analysis, and supporting documentation for budgeting and cost reviews.
• Prepare financial inputs and supporting schedules for reports compiled by the Financial Manager or Head of Finance.
• Assist in departmental and portfolio reviews by providing data-driven insights.
• (The Financial Manager retains leadership of budgeting, cost-control strategy, and board reporting.)