Accountant, IPP Reporting (Vancouver, BC)

Anthem Properties Group; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Benefits plan with Healthcare Spending

Educational assistance

Dress for your day policy

Job summary

Anthem Properties Group in Vancouver seeks an experienced financial analyst to support property-level cash management, forecasting, and reporting across a diversified real estate portfolio.

You will build robust cash flow models in Excel, review payments, and prepare quarterly distributions, delivering insights to the Asset Management team. A CPA track is a plus as enrollment is required.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in property accounting with a focus in financial analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business with a major in Accounting or Finance.
• A CPA designation is an asset, enrollment in the CPA program is required.
• Strong cash flow modelling and financial forecasting skills across various real estate asset classes.
• Strong understanding of complex real estate partnership structures to support calculation of waterfalls, hurdle rates, and preferred returns.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Power Query; experience with Python and Power BI is considered an asset.
• Experience with Yardi (an asset).

Responsibilities

• Review and authorize property-related payments, ensuring obligations are satisfied while maintaining appropriate working capital levels.
• Calculate and prepare quarterly partner distributions in accordance with property cash availability and partnership agreements.
• Review and approve property funding requests prepared by the IPPA team, ensuring accuracy and alignment with cash forecasting.
• Develop, update, and manage 10-year cash flow models based on approved budgets and business assumptions in Excel.
• Ensure forecasted capital expenditures, leasing costs, and operating revenue/expenses to ensure cash flow forecasts accurately reflect property performance.
• Maintain and enhance cash flow models to accurately reflect property acquisitions, dispositions, and other portfolio changes.
• Deliver financial and operational analysis to the Asset Management team, highlighting property performance, trends, and key metrics.
• Present quarterly financial results, cashflow, and variance analysis to property operations and management teams.
• Produce quarterly investor reports, providing insightful analysis and clear explanations of financial results and key variances.
• Support special projects, process improvements, and other ad hoc analyses as required.

Skills

Property accounting

Cash flow modelling

Financial forecasting

Excel (Power Query)

Python

Power BI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business (Accounting/Finance)

CPA designation (asset)

Tools

Excel

Power Query

Python

Power BI

Yardi

Job description

Let’s face it, you love numbers. You love finding solutions using your pragmatic yet persistent approach. You know how to collaborate and work in a team.

You Are

• Passionate about financial analysis and enjoy uncovering insights from complex data.
• A proactive problem solver who continuously seeks opportunities to improve processes and drive better business outcomes.
• Energized by working with large datasets and developing robust financial models in Excel.
• Curious about the business story behind the numbers, with the ability to translate financial results into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Equipped with a strong foundation in accounting principles and financial reporting
• Detail-oriented, analytical, and committed to delivering accurate, high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.

For your portfolio of properties, you will be responsible for:

Property level cash management

• Review and authorize property-related payments, ensuring obligations are satisfied while maintaining appropriate working capital levels
• Calculate and prepare quarterly partner distributions in accordance with property cash availability and partnership agreements
• Review and approve property funding requests prepared by the IPPA team, ensuring accuracy and alignment with cash forecasting

Property level forecasting, analysis and reporting

• Develop, update, and manage 10-year cash flow models based on approved budgets and business assumptions in excel
• Ensure forecasted capital expenditures, leasing costs, and operating revenue/expenses to ensure cash flow forecasts accurately reflect property performance
• Maintain and enhance cash flow models to accurately reflect property acquisitions, dispositions, and other portfolio changes
• Deliver financial and operational analysis to the Asset Management team, highlighting property performance, trends, and key metrics
• Present quarterly financial results, cashflow, and variance analysis to property operations and management teams
• Produce quarterly investor reports, providing insightful analysis and clear explanations of financial results and key variances
• Support special projects, process improvements, and other ad hoc analyses as required

You have

• 2–4 years of experience in property accounting with a focus in financial analysis
• Bachelor’s degree in Business with a major in Accounting or Finance
• A CPA designation is an asset, enrollment in the CPA program is required
• Strong cash flow modelling and financial forecasting skills across various real estate asset classes.

• Strong understanding of complex real estate partnership structures to support calculation of waterfalls, hurdle rates, and preferred returns

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Power Query; experience with Python and Power BI is considered an asset.
• Experience with Yardi (an asset)

We have

• Great, diverse, authentic people!
• Unlimited career growth opportunities
• Mentorship from the ‘best in the biz’
• A Corporate Giving Strategy supporting community development
• Annual salary reviews and performance bonuses
• 100% employer paid Benefit Plan with Healthcare Spending Account and Employee Assistance Program
• An Educational Assistance Program
• ‘Dress for your day’ policy… and more!

Salary range: $80,000 - $100,000 per year estimated, based on experience and qualifications

Founded in 1991, Anthem is a team of 850+ people driven by creativity,passionand direct communication. Anthem has invested in, developed or managed – alone or in partnership – more than 400 residential and commercial projects across North America.

Our growing residential portfolio includes 44,000 homes that are complete, in design or under construction, from mixed-use residential totownhome, rental and single-family homes.We own, co-own, manage or have previously owned12 million square feetofretail, industrial and office space, and our land portfolio includes more than 60 communities, spanning9,100 acresacross Canada and the United States.

Anthem is a real estate development, investment and management company that strives,solvesand evolves to create better spaces and stronger communities. We are Growing Places.