About the role
Financial Analyst, Co-op Student (Winter 2026) We’re Canadian Apartment Properties REIT, Canada’s largest publicly traded provider of quality rental housing. We own approximately 65,000 residential apartment suites, townhomes and manufactured home community sites well-located across Canada and the Netherlands.
Title: Financial Analyst, Co-op Student (Winter 2026)
Reports To: Manager, Financing
Work Type: Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office
Position Summary: Ready to gain practical experience for your CPA while elevating your financial skills? Join our Finance & Accounting team at CAPREIT! This co-op experience is an excellent way for you to learn about real estate industry, and you will play a key role in supporting accounting and financial analysis along with other responsibilities. This position offers you great exposure to mortgage financing and treasury through direct communications to institutional lenders. Last but not least, CAPREIT offers CPA pre-approved programs to help you meet your practical experiences.
Responsibilities
- Book journal entries for CAPREIT’s mortgage portfolio for month end
- Work on quarterly financial reporting of the sections related to mortgage payable
- Work on bank account reconciliation
- Work on monthly variance analysis between Forecast and Actuals, respond to FP&A and Financial Reporting team’s inquiry
- Ad hoc analysis as assigned
- Assist in annual compliance reporting required by CMHC and lenders
- Coordinate and administer the lender underwriting process, including liaising directly with the lenders and answering their follow-up questions on a timely basis
- Provide required documents to lenders including NOI statement, rent roll, property tax proofs, ESA report and other property-related info
Job Requirements/Qualifications
- 1-2 years accounting or finance experience, real estate experience or knowledge preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration
- Strong time management, multi-tasking and organization skills
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite functionality
- Experience with SAP preferred
About CAPREIT
The Best Place to Live, Work and Invest.
Over 25 years, Canadian Apartment Properties REIT has grown from owning 2,900 apartment suites in Ontario to owning approximately 64,300 suites, townhomes and manufactured home community sites internationally as at December 31 2023. We have expanded and diversified across Canada’s strongest urban growth markets, as well as into Europe, where we have been operating for over a decade. Our investment property portfolio has grown to approximately $16.5 billion as at December 31, 2023
Quality Accommodations across Canada
At CAPREIT we treat our residents with the utmost respect and strive to meet their needs well beyond their rental apartment. The reason for our success is simple: We’re all about building happy, supportive, thriving communities that are friendly and welcoming. At the heart of our apartments, townhomes, and land lease communities are our residents. So that’s where our care starts. Visit one of our rental properties and find out for yourself why our units are so sought after. You may just make one your home.
Professional Management Team
We offer a professional, dedicated team with a unique proactive management style. CANADIAN APARTMENT PROPERTIES • REIT is a growth-oriented investment trust mandated to provide a safe, happy home to our thousands of residents and provide investors with long-term, predictable returns and cash distributions.
About the role
Financial Analyst, Co-op Student (Winter 2026) We’re Canadian Apartment Properties REIT, Canada’s largest publicly traded provider of quality rental housing. We own approximately 65,000 residential apartment suites, townhomes and manufactured home community sites well-located across Canada and the Netherlands.
Title: Financial Analyst, Co-op Student (Winter 2026)
Reports To: Manager, Financing
Work Type: Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office
Position Summary: Ready to gain practical experience for your CPA while elevating your financial skills? Join our Finance & Accounting team at CAPREIT! This co-op experience is an excellent way for you to learn about real estate industry, and you will play a key role in supporting accounting and financial analysis along with other responsibilities. This position offers you great exposure to mortgage financing and treasury through direct communications to institutional lenders. Last but not least, CAPREIT offers CPA pre-approved programs to help you meet your practical experiences.
Responsibilities
- Book journal entries for CAPREIT’s mortgage portfolio for month end
- Work on quarterly financial reporting of the sections related to mortgage payable
- Work on bank account reconciliation
- Work on monthly variance analysis between Forecast and Actuals, respond to FP&A and Financial Reporting team’s inquiry
- Ad hoc analysis as assigned
- Assist in annual compliance reporting required by CMHC and lenders
- Coordinate and administer the lender underwriting process, including liaising directly with the lenders and answering their follow-up questions on a timely basis
- Provide required documents to lenders including NOI statement, rent roll, property tax proofs, ESA report and other property-related info
Job Requirements/Qualifications
- 1-2 years accounting or finance experience, real estate experience or knowledge preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration
- Strong time management, multi-tasking and organization skills
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite functionality
- Experience with SAP preferred
About CAPREIT
The Best Place to Live, Work and Invest.
Over 25 years, Canadian Apartment Properties REIT has grown from owning 2,900 apartment suites in Ontario to owning approximately 64,300 suites, townhomes and manufactured home community sites internationally as at December 31 2023. We have expanded and diversified across Canada’s strongest urban growth markets, as well as into Europe, where we have been operating for over a decade. Our investment property portfolio has grown to approximately $16.5 billion as at December 31, 2023
Quality Accommodations across Canada
At CAPREIT we treat our residents with the utmost respect and strive to meet their needs well beyond their rental apartment. The reason for our success is simple: We’re all about building happy, supportive, thriving communities that are friendly and welcoming. At the heart of our apartments, townhomes, and land lease communities are our residents. So that’s where our care starts. Visit one of our rental properties and find out for yourself why our units are so sought after. You may just make one your home.
Professional Management Team
We offer a professional, dedicated team with a unique proactive management style. CANADIAN APARTMENT PROPERTIES • REIT is a growth-oriented investment trust mandated to provide a safe, happy home to our thousands of residents and provide investors with long-term, predictable returns and cash distributions.