About the Role
Essendon Fields is looking for an experienced Senior Property Accountant to join the team behind one of Melbourne’s most significant mixed-use precincts. That’s 305 hectares of office, retail, industrial, automotive and hotel assets, plus Essendon Fields Airport.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you’ll own the property accounting function across this diverse portfolio. You’ll make sure lease administration, the rent roll, financial reporting, budgets, forecasts and compliance are accurate. You’ll also be the business’s Yardi subject matter expert.

This role will suit a technically strong accountant who enjoys working closely with property and operations teams, improving processes, and being part of a collaborative finance team. With new dealerships, an aviation maintenance facility and an expanding industrial precinct opening in the past year, there’s plenty of variety and growth in the work.

Duties

- Own the monthly rent roll and tenancy schedule, including variance analysis.
- Review and approve lease amendments in Yardi, and train property managers on lease administration.
- Run the annual outgoings cycle, from budgets and tenant notices through to the audit and reconciliation.
- Work with property managers and accounts receivable to keep debtor collections on track.
- Act as Yardi super user, managing user access, permissions, workflows, account trees and property lists.
- Prepare monthly management reports, including the profit and loss and balance sheet.
- Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations across the group’s entities.
- Prepare the annual financial statements and parts of the income tax return.
- Help build the annual budget and forecasts, including the property revenue budget.
- Improve finance processes and controls.

Skills & Experience

- CA or CPA qualified, with a degree in accounting, finance or a related field.
- 5+ years’ post-degree accounting experience,



including management reporting, budgets and forecasts.
- Experience in commercial property, with hands-on lease administration and rent roll work. This is essential.
- Yardi Voyager experience is highly regarded, ideally including lease admin or system administration. If you’ve done similar work in MRI or another property system, we’d still like to hear from you.
- A working knowledge of commercial leases and the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic).
- Strong Excel skills.
- You enjoy improving processes, and you can explain the numbers to people who aren’t accountants.

About the Company
Essendon Fields owns, develops and operates the Essendon Fields precinct in Melbourne’s north-west, home to Melbourne’s first airport. It’s a joint venture between the Beck and Fox families, and the development and property management teams are based on site.

Today the precinct is home to more than 330 businesses, including DFO Essendon, LaManna, Bombardier and over 20 car dealerships. Around $3 billion of further investment is planned to 2040.

Essendon Fields’ values centre on safety, thinking long term, supporting customers and building a great team. You’ll find a cooperative culture with a genuine focus on professional development, flexibility and wellbeing.

Benefits

- High-profile, growing property portfolio with significant ongoing development
- Broad, commercially focused role with real ownership and influence
- Collaborative and supportive leadership team
- Free on-site parking
- Life Leave, which gives you extra paid time on top of annual leave for appointments and personal commitments
- Annual health and wellbeing allowance, plus an Employee Assistance Program
- Professional development support
- Community Club Card discounts with on-site businesses, including 18% off childcare
- Supermarket, cafés, gym and medical centre on site, 15 minutes from the CBD

How to Apply
Click APPLY, or call Mitchell Kane at Sharp & Carter for a confidential discussion.

📌 Senior Property Accountant (Essendon Fields)
🏢 Sharp & Carter Finance and Accounting
📍 Essendon Fields