Property Accountant

At Epic Investment Services, we’re shaping meaningful careers in real estate by creating opportunities for growth, innovation, and development. Our EPIC values - Execute, Partner, Initiate, Challenge - guide how we collaborate, innovate, and support each other and our clients. Through our “Always On” promise, we think like owners, act with accountability, and care deeply about the communities we serve.

When you join Epic, you’re empowered to do the best work of your career in a culture that truly invests in you. We lead with a people-first mindset: one that celebrates wins, supports growth, and encourages every team member to bring their full potential to the table. Recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years, we’re cultivating an environment where excellence is supported and contributions are valued.

We take a home-grown approach to career development, investing in our people through comprehensive benefits, continuous learning, and opportunities that open doors to new responsibilities and leadership paths.

• investing in our people through comprehensive benefits, continuous learning, and opportunities that open doors to new responsibilities and leadership paths.

Epic is a fully integrated real estate management platform, where we deliver asset, investment, and property management services to institutional investors, wealth managers, and high-net-worth clients across North America. Headquartered in Toronto, Epic manages over $14 billion in assets across Canada and the U.S., encompassing more than 26 million square feet of office, retail, industrial, and multi-family residential properties. As we continue to grow, so do the opportunities for our people—come build what’s next with Epic.

We are seeking a Property Accountant to join our dynamic Property Accounting team located in Downtown Toronto.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with the full accounting cycle, including daily bank reconciliation, journal entries, general ledger, recovery, accounts payable, accounts receivable, year-end billing process
• Prepare detailed monthly variance analysis, account reconciliations, and CAM and tax recovery shortfall and ratio analysis while investigating the cause of variances and propose trouble-shooting solutions
• Monitor and reconcile capital projects and leasing costs and prepare cash distribution on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Prepare year-end audit package and entity financial statements and liaise with external auditors
• Review and analyze financial information and process the information efficiently and take appropriate actions with minimal supervision to address and resolve the matters
• Work with property management and leasing team to prepare annual budgets and quarterly forecasts based on leasing assumptions, capital, and operating expenditures projections
• Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, and other financial information as required to Senior Management, Property Managers and Owners, as needed
• Ensure all financial reporting procedures and processes are in accordance with agreed-upon or mandated schedules, owner requirements and some customized approaches as mandated by specific owners
• Coordinate with property management to ensure that Owner reports are produced accurately and on-time, with correct commentary; review the financial component of the executive summary and variance comments on the reports and assist as necessary in the drafting of the report
• Ensure that all regulatory and government returns and reporting (monthly/quarterly GST/HST, annual returns) are filed on time
• Work effectively and collaboratively with property management and other staff to provide value-add customer service to internal and external clients

Requirements:

• Minimum 1-3 years of property accounting experience within the commercial real estate industry, ideally experience working on behalf of a 3rd party manager with a variety of owners and/or joint ventures
• Accounting designation (CPA) and/or bachelor’s degree in accounting/mathematics is preferred
• Strong understanding of accounting standards (ASPE / IFRS) and internal controls
• Must have a positive “can do” attitude with a proven track…