Starlight Investments, in conjunction with WP Osborne Executive Search, is seeking a Senior Accountant, Properties to join its CORE Finance team.

Senior Accountant, Properties

Reporting to the Manager, Finance, the Senior Accountant is a key member of the Core Stewardship team, responsible for reviewing financial results submitted by third-party property managers to ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and compliance with Starlight’s accounting and reporting policies. The role supports the integrity of financial reporting and provides a foundation for investor reporting across Starlight’s public, private, and institutional investment funds, while enabling meaningful financial insights for internal and external stakeholders.

The Senior Accountant will oversee assigned areas of the month-end review process, including revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities, through the analysis of property-level variance reports and balance sheet reconciliations. Using technology, data analytics, and comparisons against budgets, underwriting assumptions, and historical results, the role will identify variances, validate financial accuracy, and drive process efficiencies. As responsibilities evolve, the successful candidate will gain broader exposure to the full financial close cycle, contribute to automation initiatives, and support improvements in property managers’ accounting processes. Strong accounting knowledge, analytical capabilities, and the ability to navigate large data sets using financial systems and technology are essential to success in this role.

As part of the company’s commitment to innovation, the successful candidate will embrace AI and emerging technologies to improve efficiency, enhance quality,



and help the broader team adapt to the evolving finance profession.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting and Analysis

Overseeing the stewardship of data integrity and financial results within Core Finance by:

- Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of monthly financial results through technology-enabled data audits, adherence to Starlight policies, and follow-up with Property Managers.
- Recording necessary correcting entries and reviewing monthly financial reports to address discrepancies and ensure accurate reporting.
- Maintaining and reviewing consolidated, corporate, and property-level reconciliations, leveraging technology to improve processes and efficiencies.
- Supporting monthly and quarterly government filings, including WSIB and EHT, across various entities.

Managing certain aspects of the audit process for funds, as well as supporting quarterly and year-end reviews as required.

Potential exposure to the Core Review team, supporting the financial analysis and review process by:

- Reviewing monthly property financial results and variances using technology and analytical tools to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely reporting.
- Identifying key risks and variances, ensuring required adjustments are made or explanations are documented in accordance with internal policies.




- Recording correcting entries and collaborating with Portfolio Finance and Core Stewardship to communicate critical issues and minimize duplication of effort.

Transaction Support (Acquisitions and Dispositions)

- Overseeing acquisition/disposition and debt/refinancing entries, including preparing the necessary supporting documentation for audit purposes.
- Overseeing other business transactions to provide financial support, as required.
- Performing acquisition, disposition, and refinancing accounting.

AI and Technology Adoption

- Ensuring a continuous focus on transitioning the financial review process toward greater use of data and defined expectations versus manual workbooks, leveraging technology and AI wherever possible.
- Assisting with and executing projects that support these efforts.
- Acting as an early adopter and role model for AI and automation within the team, treating these tools as a core part of how work gets done.
- Proactively applying approved AI tools to enhance the efficiency and quality of accounting, analysis, and reporting workflows, and helping turn those gains into repeatable processes.
- Identifying, testing, and helping implement AI-enabled process improvements, sharing learnings with peers and more junior staff.
- Applying strong professional judgment to review and validate AI-assisted output, safeguarding accuracy, data integrity, and compliance.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1–2 years of accounting experience, preferably in real estate, and a degree in Accounting, Finance, or IT combined with accounting knowledge or experience. A solid understanding of accounting principles (IFRS and ASP

📌 Senior Accountant, Properties (Toronto)
🏢 WP Osborne Executive Search
📍 Toronto