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Property Accountant

Location : Palmerston North

Listed : Wednesday, 10 September

Type: Permanent + fulltime

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Join the team at Higgins Family Holdings Ltd (HFHL) and provide vital accounting support across the group, with a strong focus on property businesses. This role spans financial reporting, management reporting property development accounting, and analysis to support informed decision-making.

BENEFITS:

  • Attractive salary aligned with your experience
  • Full time with flexible office hours between 7am and 5pm, Monday to Friday
  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Eligible for subsidised health insurance after 1 year of employment
  • Newly built, bespoke office space with free parking
  • Job security with a long-established, successful Manawatu family business

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage rent roll analysis, lease terms, ROI/IRR calculations, and scenario modelling for property investments
  • Record and maintain property acquisitions, sales, and development project records, tracking against budgets
  • Prepare monthly financial reports, reconciliations, and cashflow forecasts
  • Preparation of tax returns - GST, RWT, FBT
  • Maintain fixed asset registers
  • Build and maintain financial models, BI reporting, and support systems integration

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

  • Proven accounting experience, ideally with exposure to property accounting
  • Strong analytical and financial modelling skills, with the capability to provide insights and recommendations
  • Tech-savvy, able to quickly pick up new systems and extract meaningful data (Netsuite, BI tools, Re-Leased experience preferred)
  • Highly organised, accurate, and detail-focused while managing competing deadlines
  • Resilient and agile, with a hands-on approach across both property and operational accounting
  • Self-motivated and intuitive, with the confidence to work independently and within a team

HFHL is a prominent and well-respected Manawatu business that employs over 200 people throughout New Zealand. Founded by the Higgins family over 40 years ago, they specialise in concrete and aggregate production as well as property management. They foster a supportive and high-performing culture, focusing on career development and encouraging work-life balance within a collaborative environment.

The recruitment for this role is being managed by PN Personnel. Apply today, or for more information, please contact Cushla Brasell on 06 280 2402.
 

 

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