Senior Investment Accountant

Fixed term contract - 12 months

About the Role

This is a 12 month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) position within the UK Finance Team based in London office, enabling the development of technical expertise and business insight in a fast-paced finance team. As a Senior Investment Accountant (FTC), the role involves supporting the Financial Controller and wider finance team, while taking full ownership of investment accounting across the UK operating property portfolios. The position requires close collaboration with head office teams, auditors, external advisors, and key business stakeholders across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Review of month-end and quarter-end reporting packs and year-end reporting activities for offshore holding entities, including reports and supporting schedules for all balance sheet line items and commentary on profit and loss line items.
• Quarterly consolidations across multi-property portfolios in residential special purpose vehicles.
• Preparation/review of accruals, prepayments, and posting of journal entries.
• Cash management, including review of bank reconciliations, forecasts, and payment approvals.
• Preparation and management of quarterly or ad hoc intra-group distribution and capital call waterfalls, including monitoring of cash balances and knowledge of capital expenditure budgets.
• Preparation of investor capital calls and distributions, liaising with Portfolio Management, Investor Relations, Operational and Corporate Accounting and Administrators as required.
• Preparation of quarterly lender reporting including cash waterfalls, compliance certificates and covenant calculations.
• Leading the investor reporting process, preparing the reporting, and dealing with the queries received from the investors.
• Preparation of consolidated audited financial statements within investor and lender reporting deadlines, for residential portfolios.
• Review of subsidiary financial statements and supporting schedules for residential portfolios.
• Assist/manage key audit components and requirements.
• Assistance with the preparation of accounting memos on all technical accounting changes.
• Working closely with Portfolio Management, Asset management and external advisors for the divestments.
• Knowledge of partnership agreements, including lender requirements, investor requirements and external reporting requirements.
• Transition of completed developments from the development accounting team.
• Calculation of investment level management fees.
• Review of quarterly VAT Returns and annual Tax Computations for subsidiaries, coordination with external tax/ VAT advisor.
• Assist the Asset Management team with annual budgeting and re-forecasting for the portfolios.
• Assisting the corporate finance team with business planning and reforecast.

About You

You're a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with around 5 years of post-qualification experience—ideally within the real estate sector. You bring a deep understanding of GAAP, IFRS, and audit processes, along with hands-on experience in debt compliance, investor reporting, and acquisition/disposal accounting.

Detail-oriented and highly organised, you’re confident working with financial data, explaining complex numbers clearly, and managing multiple tasks with precision. You're a proactive self-starter with a "can-do" attitude, always eager to grow, develop, and deliver work you’re proud of. Experience with offshore structures and Yardi? Even better.

What We Offer

We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard. Please reach out if you are keen to know more.

About Greystar

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company's business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and develop multifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industry funded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar’s pan – European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

One of Greystar’s core values is Equality, and as such, we continue to pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, accounting for all protected and identifiable characteristics. We truly value diversity of thought, background and of experience. Please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team to explore opportunities at Greystar in more detail or visit our careers site at https://jobs.greystar.com/.