Top Benefits
About the role
HighView Partnersabout 14 hours ago
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mid Level
Full-Time
Top Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
RRSP matching program
Three weeks vacation
About the role
Our client is a growing real estate investment and operating platform with a hands-on leadership team and a strong focus on disciplined growth, accountability, and long-term asset ownership. This confidential search represents an opportunity to step into a meaningful controllership role with real responsibility, visibility, and the ability to make a tangible impact as the portfolio continues to scale.
Your New Employer
Our client is a privately held, owner-led real estate organization with a rapidly growing commercial and residential portfolio. The business is actively acquiring and scaling assets, creating a need for strong financial ownership at the asset level. The leadership team is hands-on, accessible, and highly engaged in the portfolio's operations, with a strong expectation of accuracy, accountability, and execution from the finance function.
This is an environment where finance is central to decision-making and where strong performers are trusted with responsibility rather than constrained by rigid hierarchy or process-heavy structures.
Your New Role
As the Real Estate Controller, you will join the senior finance team and take ownership of the financial management, reporting, and compliance of a growing real estate portfolio. This is a hands-on controllership role designed for a CPA or someone close to completing a CPA who enjoys working closely with assets, solving real accounting problems, and building clarity in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
The core focus of the role is property-level P&L ownership, cost allocation, and compliance, rather than treasury or cash forecasting, which sits elsewhere in the organization today. You will be responsible for end-to-end real estate accounting and asset-level reporting across the portfolio. This includes maintaining and validating rent rolls, lease schedules, CAM recoveries, utilities, and escalations; tracking property tax increases, CAM adjustments, and lease-specific obligations; and managing escalations. A key part of the role involves reviewing and managing CAM reconciliations, ensuring that recovery calculations are accurate, consistent, and well-supported.
The role also includes oversight of construction-in-progress (CIP), where you will review invoices, ensure proper coding, and apply sound professional judgment around capitalization versus expensing. You will improve allocation logic for shared utilities, insurance, and other shared costs, and ensure the integrity and reliability of data in QuickBooks Online and Buildium, including ongoing cleanup and maintenance as needed.
From a reporting perspective, you will prepare timely monthly property-level financial statements and supporting schedules, provide clear asset-level profitability and variance analysis, and consolidate real estate financial information for leadership in collaboration with senior accounting colleagues. You will also support underwriting, refinancing, valuation inputs, and lender reporting by delivering accurate, well-organized financial packages.
In addition, you will lead annual property-level budgeting processes, maintain rolling forecasts with clear variance explanations, and partner with leadership to interpret portfolio performance, trends, and risks. From a compliance standpoint, you will own recurring lender and mortgage deliverables, including rent rolls prepared in lender-required formats, support CMHC and mortgage compliance requirements, maintain organized and audit-ready documentation, and coordinate with the Senior Controller during audit periods by responding to audit inquiries, providing schedules, samples, and explanations related to real estate assets.
As the portfolio continues to scale, strong performance in this role can lead to expanded scope and responsibility over time, without predefined titles or timelines.
What Sets You Apart
You are a designated CPA or close to completing your CPA, have strong accounting fundamentals, and are comfortable owning work end-to-end. You have a deep understanding of core accounting concepts, including balance sheet versus income statement classification, capitalization versus expensing, and amortization, and you are confident applying professional judgment in real-world situations.
You are comfortable managing large volumes of data, working with imperfect information, and building clarity over time. You are hands-on, technically strong, particularly in Excel, and able to prioritize independently as new issues arise. You take a practical, solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving and are comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist.
Why Join?
This role offers the opportunity to assume full ownership within a growing real estate platform. You will work closely with senior finance leadership and executives, directly impact the quality and reliability of asset-level information, and play a meaningful role in supporting continued growth through acquisitions and expansion.
For a real estate accounting professional who wants responsibility, visibility, and trust, rather than a narrowly defined or purely transactional role, this represents a compelling next step.
Compensation
The target base salary range for this role is highly competitive, reflecting current budget and internal equity, with room to grow over time for strong performers. The role is eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus and includes a comprehensive benefits package, an RRSP matching program, and three weeks of vacation.
Additional Information
This role is based in Halifax and requires in-office collaboration, with most of the team working on-site five days per week. Flexibility is available when needed for circumstances such as weather, appointments, or exams, but this is not a default hybrid role. This posting represents a confidential search. All inquiries and discussions will be handled with discretion. Artificial intelligence–based tools are not used in the screening or selection process for this role.
Take the Next Step
If you are a CPA (or close to completing) with strong accounting experience, ideally within a real estate environment, who enjoys owning the numbers and working closely with senior leadership in a fast-growing organization, we encourage you to connect for a confidential discussion. Qualified candidates will be contacted promptly to explore fit and next steps.
About HighView Partners
Staffing and Recruiting
11-50
Located in Toronto and Vancouver, we are a talent search firm dedicated to providing recruitment solutions to the real estate industry in Canada. Our mission is to connect people who perform and make a lasting impact in the industry.
Employers We know your goal is to hire the best talent in the industry. Our knowledge of Canadian real estate and the people in it, at all levels, will free you to concentrate on running your business. At HighView Partners, we are committed to finding your Best Next Hire.
Candidates We know moving to a new job is a career-defining decision. We will help you recognize and leverage the skills and passion that drive your performance. We want you to make the right choice and feel confident you are making your Best Next Move.
Top Benefits
About the role
HighView Partnersabout 14 hours ago
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mid Level
Full-Time
Top Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
RRSP matching program
Three weeks vacation
About the role
Our client is a growing real estate investment and operating platform with a hands-on leadership team and a strong focus on disciplined growth, accountability, and long-term asset ownership. This confidential search represents an opportunity to step into a meaningful controllership role with real responsibility, visibility, and the ability to make a tangible impact as the portfolio continues to scale.
Your New Employer
Our client is a privately held, owner-led real estate organization with a rapidly growing commercial and residential portfolio. The business is actively acquiring and scaling assets, creating a need for strong financial ownership at the asset level. The leadership team is hands-on, accessible, and highly engaged in the portfolio's operations, with a strong expectation of accuracy, accountability, and execution from the finance function.
This is an environment where finance is central to decision-making and where strong performers are trusted with responsibility rather than constrained by rigid hierarchy or process-heavy structures.
Your New Role
As the Real Estate Controller, you will join the senior finance team and take ownership of the financial management, reporting, and compliance of a growing real estate portfolio. This is a hands-on controllership role designed for a CPA or someone close to completing a CPA who enjoys working closely with assets, solving real accounting problems, and building clarity in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
The core focus of the role is property-level P&L ownership, cost allocation, and compliance, rather than treasury or cash forecasting, which sits elsewhere in the organization today. You will be responsible for end-to-end real estate accounting and asset-level reporting across the portfolio. This includes maintaining and validating rent rolls, lease schedules, CAM recoveries, utilities, and escalations; tracking property tax increases, CAM adjustments, and lease-specific obligations; and managing escalations. A key part of the role involves reviewing and managing CAM reconciliations, ensuring that recovery calculations are accurate, consistent, and well-supported.
The role also includes oversight of construction-in-progress (CIP), where you will review invoices, ensure proper coding, and apply sound professional judgment around capitalization versus expensing. You will improve allocation logic for shared utilities, insurance, and other shared costs, and ensure the integrity and reliability of data in QuickBooks Online and Buildium, including ongoing cleanup and maintenance as needed.
From a reporting perspective, you will prepare timely monthly property-level financial statements and supporting schedules, provide clear asset-level profitability and variance analysis, and consolidate real estate financial information for leadership in collaboration with senior accounting colleagues. You will also support underwriting, refinancing, valuation inputs, and lender reporting by delivering accurate, well-organized financial packages.
In addition, you will lead annual property-level budgeting processes, maintain rolling forecasts with clear variance explanations, and partner with leadership to interpret portfolio performance, trends, and risks. From a compliance standpoint, you will own recurring lender and mortgage deliverables, including rent rolls prepared in lender-required formats, support CMHC and mortgage compliance requirements, maintain organized and audit-ready documentation, and coordinate with the Senior Controller during audit periods by responding to audit inquiries, providing schedules, samples, and explanations related to real estate assets.
As the portfolio continues to scale, strong performance in this role can lead to expanded scope and responsibility over time, without predefined titles or timelines.
What Sets You Apart
You are a designated CPA or close to completing your CPA, have strong accounting fundamentals, and are comfortable owning work end-to-end. You have a deep understanding of core accounting concepts, including balance sheet versus income statement classification, capitalization versus expensing, and amortization, and you are confident applying professional judgment in real-world situations.
You are comfortable managing large volumes of data, working with imperfect information, and building clarity over time. You are hands-on, technically strong, particularly in Excel, and able to prioritize independently as new issues arise. You take a practical, solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving and are comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist.
Why Join?
This role offers the opportunity to assume full ownership within a growing real estate platform. You will work closely with senior finance leadership and executives, directly impact the quality and reliability of asset-level information, and play a meaningful role in supporting continued growth through acquisitions and expansion.
For a real estate accounting professional who wants responsibility, visibility, and trust, rather than a narrowly defined or purely transactional role, this represents a compelling next step.
Compensation
The target base salary range for this role is highly competitive, reflecting current budget and internal equity, with room to grow over time for strong performers. The role is eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus and includes a comprehensive benefits package, an RRSP matching program, and three weeks of vacation.
Additional Information
This role is based in Halifax and requires in-office collaboration, with most of the team working on-site five days per week. Flexibility is available when needed for circumstances such as weather, appointments, or exams, but this is not a default hybrid role. This posting represents a confidential search. All inquiries and discussions will be handled with discretion. Artificial intelligence–based tools are not used in the screening or selection process for this role.
Take the Next Step
If you are a CPA (or close to completing) with strong accounting experience, ideally within a real estate environment, who enjoys owning the numbers and working closely with senior leadership in a fast-growing organization, we encourage you to connect for a confidential discussion. Qualified candidates will be contacted promptly to explore fit and next steps.
About HighView Partners
Staffing and Recruiting
11-50
Located in Toronto and Vancouver, we are a talent search firm dedicated to providing recruitment solutions to the real estate industry in Canada. Our mission is to connect people who perform and make a lasting impact in the industry.
Employers We know your goal is to hire the best talent in the industry. Our knowledge of Canadian real estate and the people in it, at all levels, will free you to concentrate on running your business. At HighView Partners, we are committed to finding your Best Next Hire.
Candidates We know moving to a new job is a career-defining decision. We will help you recognize and leverage the skills and passion that drive your performance. We want you to make the right choice and feel confident you are making your Best Next Move.