Transaction Accountant

 

Description:

The ideal candidate is an organized, detail-oriented professional with a strong customer-centric mindset. The ideal candidate excels at problem-solving, is comfortable analyzing large data sets, and has experience reviewing and interpreting complex contracts, leases, and commission agreements. The candidate will prioritize and maintain organization of a high-volume workload. Success in this role requires the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, maintaining a solution-driven approach when faced with challenges.

Job Description

Transaction Revenue Review
 

  • Complete review of all Advisory transactions and adjustments with designated threshold verifying:
    • All required documentation is present, current, and fully executed
    • Commissions are accurately calculated, input, and reflected in the system
    • Payment terms are captured properly
    • Outside Brokers, Client Fee Share and internal splits are accurately reflected where applicable
    • Deals are processed in accordance with ASC 606 Revenue Recognition Guidelines, in addition to month-end and year-end deal entry deadlines
    • All expenses associated with the transaction are being recovered (related to OTT, OTB and DFC)
    • Record and manage lease contingencies, commission billing and payment due dates
  • Request recall, reject or approve upon review of the transaction
  • Track and collaborate with the submitter to address all recalled or rejected transactions
    • Collaboration may include future coaching session, group training, targeted guidance on specific areas to update within the transaction, etc…
  • Address any transactions rejected by the Revenue Recognition team
  • Meet all KPIs and SLAs related to transaction processing (includes accuracy and production targets)
  • Initiate Fee Earner transaction adjustments as necessary in Salesforce (i.e. Post/Pre Cash, Net Override or Special Handling)
  • Provide Deal Management consulting to colleagues in Deal Desk, Advisory Fee Earners, Admins/Coordinators, and local/regional Leadership by answering questions related to required deal documentation and revenue recognition at either the pre or post close phase of the transaction
  • Take a proactive and creative approach to problem-solve issues or challenges and provide input for issue improvements, issue resolution or escalations
  • Use tech-enabled functionality within the Deal Management system (Engage/Salesforce) to organize, track and manage the daily transaction review process

FINTRAC Compliance
 

  • FINTRAC collaboration with broker teams to collect necessary documentation and run watchdog reporting to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
     

Receivables Analysis & Management
 

  • Proactively review and monitor aged receivables in accordance with the current policies and processes.
  • Trust Deposit
  • Process commission payments received and provide cash application instructions to the FSC
  • Ownership of researching, applying, and documenting unapplied cash in the system
  • Partner monthly with Advisory brokers and market leadership to determine and coordinate action on aged receivables
  • Review outstanding AR against Unapplied Cash
  • Resolve commission payment misapplications
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (i.e. Legal, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Receivable) to verify collectability and issue demand letters
  • Determine any significantly aged items that need to be escalated to local or regional leadership to be addressed
  • Write-off outstanding receivables with approval from necessary parties and in accordance with bad debt policy
  • Help identify trends or themes that can be addressed through process improvement and/or training to decrease the time to collection and/or bad debt
  • Initiate refunds, stop/void/reissue of payment

Organization Cushman & Wakefield
Industry Accounting / Finance / Audit Jobs
Occupational Category Transaction Accountant
Job Location Toronto,Canada
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2025-08-19 9:27 am
Expires on 2026-01-05