Property Accountant

MRI Software; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in real estate software is seeking a Property Accountant in South Africa. The role involves supporting clients across various property accounting tasks, requiring 2-4 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in accounting. The ideal candidate will work UK hours and enjoy perks like office breakfasts, a medical aid scheme, and a competitive pension plan.

Benefits

Office breakfasts

Medical aid scheme

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Tuition reimbursement schemes

Qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience as a property accountant with a commercial or residential management company.
• Must be able to work during UK hours and South African public holidays.
• Ability to work under deadlines and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Assist in administering all levels of Property Accounting and special projects.
• Create transactions and invoice tenants, including posting receipts for payments.
• Perform month/year end activities including closing periods and running GL reports.

Skills

Property accounting experience

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

Tools

MRI Software applications

Job description

Position Overview

The Property Accountant will work closely with our clients to help support across all property accounting areas. The tasks will include both subledger and general ledger activities. The Property Accountant will work on various projects as they arise, providing the chance to learn new systems, processes and procedures. The below responsibilities are not an exhaustive list, and each one could contain more sub-tasks.

Responsibilities

• This position will assist in administering all levels of Property Accounting and special projects as needed by management.
• Assist with creating transactions and invoicing tenants. This will also extend to posting receipts for tenant payments.
• Credit control activities will include aged debt reporting, sending arrears letters and liaising with Tenants to deal with any queries.
• Supporting with coding supplier invoices and producing supplier statements.
• Running the full end to end process with service charges (raising on accounts, recovering expenditure, billing voids & year end recs).
• Bank reconciliations.
• Assist with VAT reporting.
• Month / Year end activities include closing periods, running GL reports e.g. Trial Balance and reconciling balance sheet accounts.
• Onboarding new portfolios - static lease data & financial opening balances.
• Lease administration (reconciling existing portfolio data against the client's leases and managing the lifecycle of leases).

Key Requirements

• Must be able to work during UK hours and South African public holidays (you will receive take UK bank holidays instead of SA bank holidays).
• 2-4 years' experience as a property accountant with commercial or residential management company.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, peers, and management through written and/or verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to work under deadlines.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to manage priorities.
• A high degree of dependability, motivation and flexibility.

Nice to have

• Experience using MRI Software applications.
• Understanding of Property & Lease Management processes & principles.
• Comfortable with System Administration tasks (non-technical).
• Knowledge of Turnover Rent or IFRS16.
• Previous experience with client facing roles.

Perks and environment

• We want our staff to love working here, and so we've created a few unique perks such as office breakfasts, quarterly lunches and virtual social events. Additionally, we value your input in your employee experience and have employee-led groups such as our DEI committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group.
• Have confidence in your health with our offered Medical Aid Scheme.
• Invest in our competitive Personal Pension plan and help set you up for your future.
• MRI Software Parental Leave benefit to spend time with your new arrival(s).
• 25 days of annual leave plus public Holidays, plus 16 hours of "Flex Time Off" to be used as you choose.
• Tuition Reimbursement Schemes for professional development.
• Flexibility of working from anywhere in the world for two weeks per year.

MRI continues to strive to amaze as a global industry leader in real estate software. Whether you are joining as a new pride member or bringing your expertise back, your talent is important to maintaining MRI's high client experience standard and continuing our growth in the PropTech space.

Amazing growth takes amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply - we'd love to hear from you!

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