Project Accountant

Reports to: Senior Project Accountant

Position Summary

The Project Accountant supports the financial tracking, analysis, and reporting of project-related activity across York Group’s commercial real estate portfolio. This role focuses on maintaining strong cost controls, improving internal processes, and providing accurate, timely financial information to support operational decision-making.

Working closely with the Accounting team and internal stakeholders, the Project Accountant delivers project-level financial insight related to tenant improvements, landlord work, and other property-related initiatives within a commercial real estate environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Senior Project Accountant/Controller to maintain accurate and detailed project accounting across the commercial real estate portfolio.
• Support the Senior Project Accountant with budget-to-actual tracking, variance analysis, and reporting for project-related costs.
• Maintain oversight of project budgets, quarterly forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Track project-related purchase orders, change orders, and cost commitments.
• Project related accounting tracking of development project new builds, tenant improvements, and landlords work in new and existing buildings.
• Prepare monthly project accruals and ensure costs are recorded accurately and in the appropriate accounting periods.
• Prepare and distribute monthly and quarterly stakeholder reporting.
• Prepare project-related Work in Progress (WIP) reporting, where applicable, and support internal review processes.
• Draft project related financing requests to Quality Surveyors (QS) to facilitate draws from construction lenders.
• Assist with process improvements and implementation.
• Provide guidance to Property Administrators on project-related tenant chargebacks and cost allocations.
• Other ad hoc tasks as assigned by the Controller, VP Accounting, and COO.

What you bring to York

• Education with a diploma or degree majoring in accounting.
• Minimum 5 years’ project accounting preferred.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in construction or commercial real estate preferred.
• Ability to forge, grow and maintain positive relationships with multiple groups.
• Ability to remain objective and maintain a factual perspective when dealing with questions and inquiries.
• Sense of urgency and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet the time demands of unpredictable activities, capable of handling pressure and challenges in a dynamic business environment.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, and a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to deliver a message to a large group.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a positive attitude.

Core Competencies

• Microsoft Excel Skills
• Systematic
• Detail-Orientation
• Problem Solving
• Interpersonal Skills

Assumed Competencies

• Inquisitive and Curious