Senior Financial Analyst

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

Starlight Investments

Starlight Investments is a leading global real estate investment and asset management firm. Established in 2011 and privately owned, Starlight has grown to a dynamic team of 360+ professionals who manage $30 billion of direct real estate and real estate investment securities.Offering a range of investment vehicles across various real estate strategies, we are a developer and asset manager of over 77,000 multi-residential suites and over 9 million square feet of commercial property space. Holding Canada’s largest portfolio of multi-family assets, we have a strong focus and commitment to creating a positive impact for our communities. To learn more about Starlight, please visit www.starlightinvest.com or follow the company on LinkedIn

Most finance teams close the books and report the past. At Starlight, you help shape the future of a real estate platform scaling from $30 to $50 billion — the most active multi-family investor in Canada. You partner with senior leaders on complex public and private deals, on a leading-edge AI stack that handles the manual work, with a real path from Analyst all the way to senior leadership. Institutional-grade rigor, entrepreneurial ownership — learn faster, contribute earlier, grow further.

Why Choose Starlight?

✦Grow to senior leadership

A real, mapped path: Analyst → Manager → Controller → Director → VP → senior leadership.

✦A business partner, not a scorekeeper

Shape decisions across the business — with broad exposure to every part of finance, from portfolio and FP&A to treasury, tax and deals.

✦Leading-edge AI & technology

A best-in-class stack, StarSight, Asset Intelligence, Power BI, Workiva, Kyriba — does the manual work.

✦Deeply invested in your development

CPA fully covered, Starlight U, mentorship and a structured onboarding program.

The Opportunity

Senior Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst will be a key member of the finance team responsible for the financial management, reporting, and accounting of Canadian residential portfolios. The role will serve as a strategic business partner to internal stakeholders, providing timely, accurate, and actionable financial and operational insights to support informed decision-making and optimize property performance and investor returns. The Senior Financial Analyst will collaborate closely with stakeholders across Asset Management, Investments, Leasing, Treasury, Property Accounting (CORE), Tax, and other business lines. The role will have broad exposure to all levels of management and will be instrumental in building strong cross-functional relationships and delivering high-quality financial analysis.

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

• Oversee completion of month-end close, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and completeness of financial results for multiple listed funds and other funds, as required.
• Maintain General Ledger and other support for full monthly financial close, including journal entries and analysis as required to ensure the integrity of financial and operational information.
• Manage and assist with audit process for funds, as well as support quarterly/year-end reviews as required

Financial Analysis

• Review and analyze monthly reporting for portfolios to understand key variances and communicate to internal stakeholders for each property, including ensuring commentary reflects the underlying performance of the assets.
• Ensure technology tools reflect the right outputs to internal stakeholders by partnering with other internal departments.
• Assist with the review of budgets and analysis for budget inputs for the properties as part of each annual budgeting cycle.
• Assist with other financial management initiatives or ad-hoc projects, as required.

AI and Technology Adoption

• Act 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 apply approved AI tools to enhance the efficiency and quality of accounting, analysis and reporting workflows, and help turn those gains into repeatable processes.
• Identify, test and help implement AI-enabled process improvements, sharing learnings with peers and more junior staff.
• Apply strong professional judgment to review and validate AI-assisted output, safeguarding accuracy, data integrity and compliance.

Transaction support

• Provide support on financial aspects of property acquisitions, dispositions, and property financing activities and other business transactions, as required.
• Perform acquisition, disposition and refinancing accounting.

Cash and Debt Management

• Assist with the management of cash availability, including review of cash position reporting prepared by the treasury team to ensure accurate cash reporting and forecasting
• Assist with the management of the partnership’s debt portfolios, including ensuring all loan provisions are appropriately complied with and any covenant reporting is accurate, timely and complete.

Qualifications

We’re looking for a driven finance professional with 2–4 years of accounting experience who holds a CPA designation or is nearing completion, along with a university degree in accounting or finance and strong knowledge of IFRS and ASPE. The ideal candidate brings solid Excel skills, with Workiva, and ERP experience considered an asset, and is excited to leverage AI and emerging technologies to enhance processes and drive innovation. Beyond technical expertise, you’ll be a strong communicator and analytical thinker who is highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and resourceful, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively with both senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

Application

Qualified candidates can submit their resume via LinkedIn, noting “#1439 – SFA” in the subject line. AI is not used to screen candidates for this role.

The compensation structure is comprised of a base salary that is market competitive and based on factors such as experience, education, designations, and skillset. It also includes a discretionary annual performance bonus tied to weighted performance targets and company performance, and company medical/dental benefits, healthcare spending accounts, a tiered employer matching group retirement savings plan and parking/Presto allowance. Other benefits include maternity top-up, investment opportunities in the company’s funds, summer office hours, annual company-wide volunteer day and many more.

WP Osborne Executive Search

WP Osborne is a privately-owned search firm delivering full-service recruitment expertise for over 20 years to a broad range of clients in the real estate industry. Our expertise extends across every major asset class including multi-residential, office, industrial, retail, mixed-use, condo, hotels, and senior living across the functions of asset management, investments, development, construction, leasing, property management, portfolio management, finance, marketing, IT, HR and strategy.