POSITION SUMMARY: The Real Estate Controller will serve as a strategic financial partner to executive leadership, helping drive operational efficiency, portfolio performance, and scalable financial processes across a commercial real estate platform. In this role, you will support the Accounting team by managing financial statement preparation, overseeing cash management, and ensuring compliance with accounting regulations. You will play a key role in maintaining financial integrity while streamlining processes for efficiency and growth.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Controllership Level Duties
- Prepare and review monthly financial statements, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.
- Manage cash flow operations, including tenant payment processing, disbursements, and bank reconciliations.
- Maintain general ledger integrity, preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analysis.
- Support the firm's development projects, preparing budgets, loan requests, construction draws, and overseeing construction accounting.
- Maintain detailed vendor records to facilitate 1099 reporting and compliance.
- Prepare or review CAM reconciliations
- Lead special projects related to financial growth and process improvements.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (INCLUDES EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE): The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA preferred).
- 5+ years of real estate accounting experience
- Proficiency in financial statement preparation, accounts payable/receivable, reconciliations, and general accounting functions.
- Strong analytical skills with a process-improvement mindset, focused on efficiency and accuracy.
- Yardi proficiency is highly desirable; strong command of Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.
- Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication, capable of collaborating across departments.
- High integrity, trustworthiness, and a commitment to excellence in financial operations.
NEEDED ATTRIBUTES:
- Dependable, self-motivated, punctual, and efficient in handling work assignments
- Ability to maintain a high degree of proficiency while under pressure and with frequent interruptions
- Able to work with a diverse group of people
- Strong team player, friendly, patient, self-motivated
- Professional appearance and manner
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL EFFORT: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or listen
- The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- This position requires frequent manual dexterity in combination with eye/hand coordination such as keyboarding and handling of equipment
- Will have repetitive hand motions and prolonged periods of sitting.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Prolonged exposure to viewing a computer screen
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
- The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate
- Must be able to travel (10%) within the metropolitan area.
We seek a detail-oriented, results-driven professional who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and is eager to support a high-growth organization. If you're looking for a strategic accounting leadership role in real estate, we encourage you to apply!