Comp: $100-110K + bonus + exceptional benefits!
Fully onsite role
Why is this a great company?:
- Rapid growth real estate investment firm with heavy financial backing – actively acquiring new properties
- Awesome team and friendly environment
- Plenty of room for promotion in a growing department
SENIOR PROPERTY ACCOUNTANT
Responsibilities:
- Review monthly and intercompany journal entries entered by third party accounting team.
- Oversee the monthly/annual closing process, assist with CAM reconciliation, job cost and provide insights to management.
- Handle accounts payable weekly check run, create new vendors in MRI, handle special invoices, track parcels and tax payments.
- Treasury management – Monitor and reconcile bank accounts daily, review tenant receipts (ACH, wires, lockbox, check), assist with cash forecasting, process wires, and confirm funds availability for in-house checks and wires
- Collaborate with Property Managers to resolve accounts receivable issues and tenant billing. Maintain a schedule to track and book bad debt reserve.
- Assist in preparing and entering annual budgets in MRI
- Maintain debt and book corresponding journal entries
- Communicate with management on funding requests for distributions and check runs
- Ensure adherence to accounting GAAP standards and provide backup for internal/external audits.
- Correspond daily with third party property accounting regarding any outstanding matters
- Promote continuous process improvements, best practices, and new tools or technologies
- Maintain the highest level of quality over the GL, GL sub-leger, CAM, budgets, forecasts and monthly reporting deliverables.
- Master the administration of key property accounting applications, including MRI, Avid, Banking, and other key relevant technologies
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- 4+ years of experience in property accounting and/or real estate more broadly
- 2.5+ years of public accounting with real estate clients will also be considered
- CPA preferred
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Experience with enhancing complex systems and processes; MRI is a plus
- Experience with managing teams
- Demonstrated excellence in time management and ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and meet deadlines
- Able to address work in a flexible way and remain open to direction from supervisors
- Ability to think strategically while executing day-to-day operations effectively.