Senior Financial Property Accountant

Who We Are

Revantage is a global corporate services leader, delivering exceptional experiences to Blackstone portfolio companies and investments that enable them to thrive. As a global firm, Revantage provides a suite of service offerings with our best-in-class talent, processes, and technologies to support thousands of assets and billions in Total Enterprise Value (TEV) across asset classes, including industrial, residential, office, and retail. 

Revantage Australia & New Zealand, headquartered in Sydney, is among four Revantage regions that also includes Revantage Asia, Revantage Europe, and Revantage North America. 

What We Value: Our Culture

Creating a culture that inspires change and momentum requires the right team. We know what it takes to lead an industry, and are looking for leaders who seek constant growth, want to excel, and continuously improve upon themselves and the industry. The culture at Revantage is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Achievers – We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams
• Enthusiasts – We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible
• Leaders – We commit to continuously improve our performance
• Learners – We learn from our challenges and successes
• Partners – We deliver value and positive impact to our partners

ROLE SUMMARY

The Senior Financial Accountant’s role will be to support the Revantage ANZ Finance team in meeting the finance compliance obligations of the Blackstone Real Estate Portfolio in Australia and New Zealand.

Primary Role

• On a monthly basis, prepare and comprehend portfolio and consolidated sector property results (balance sheet and profit & loss) by reviewing and analysing movements on a monthly and YTD basis
• Review balance sheet reconciliations for all balance sheet line items, understand and resolve aged balances and unreconciled items
• Work with development/asset manager to update forecast capex and tenant incentives, track actuals vs budget, accrue on a monthly basis
• Track income collection and cash collections – work with asset managers/sector heads to provide information to assist them in reducing aged arrears
• Preparation of the quarterly NAV, SCA reporting, monthly MMR and other BX reporting as required
• Prepare property inputs into monthly or quarterly IAS, BAS reports
• Allocated year-end financial statement reporting
• Review monthly property expense, capex and incentives forecast
• Review and update outgoings income recovery model for annual budget and quarterly re-forecast
• Work closely with the Fund Accounting team to finalise monthly results
• Onboard and offboard entities, including final wash ups
• Identify efficiencies through refined operating procedures, business improvement and utilisation of new systems (Workday, Anaplan and Power BI)
• Support the treasury team with forecasting for cash flows
• Support tax function as required and assist with the preparation of BAS, annual income tax returns 
• Prepare calculation of management fees, leasing fees and capex fees

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

External: 

• JLL
• Colliers
• JV Partners
• Deloitte Audit and Tax
• 151 Property

Internal: 

• CFO
• Financial Controllers
• Senior Finance Manager
• Tax Managers
• Treasury
• Financial Accountants
• Revantage Asia
• Blackstone

What You Bring To The Role

Required:

• 2+ years experience in a property accounting role
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Experienced/Knowledgeable in:
  • Accounting principles 
  • Management accounting
  • Statutory accounting 
  • Consolidation
  • GST & Tax
• Strong analytical skills & attention to detail 
• Time management & organisational skills 
• Good written and verbal communication skills 
• High level of behavioural awareness in self and others
• Ability to maintain a high energy, positive, creative, solutions driven, client orientated, dynamic and responsive culture 
• Facilitate knowledge sharing
• Drive positive change
• Demonstrate continued proactiveness
• Intermediate Excel skills – ability to manage large excel spreadsheets and use intermediate level formulas
• Experience in ERP systems such as SAP, TM1 or Workday highly desirable
• A curious and willing mindset to adopt new technology and systems
• CPA/CA Qualified
• Bachelors degree in related discipline

Perks for You

• Competitive remuneration
• Work-life balance offerings include:
  • Hybrid work policy
  • Productivity hours – weekly meeting-free work time
  • Health and well-being programs
  • Birthday leave
  • Volunteering leave
  • Sporting and social activities
• In-house and external learning & development opportunities

EEO STATEMENT

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.