Senior Accounting Manager

4 days ago

Chestnut Hill, United States WS Development Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

What to expect

  • Oversee a portfolio of properties, directly supervising Managers, Senior Property Accountants and Property Accountants. Ability to manage a team. Supervision of staff and mentoring are key to this role. It is critical to retain highly performing staff to ensure that the department functions at its highest level.
  • Work directly with Investment Managers, who oversee all aspects of properties, on asset health, investor and lender reporting and analysis, and providing data and insight over day-to-day operating decisions.
  • Oversee, monthly, quarterly and year end closings for properties in accordance with GAAP, tax basis and cash basis accounting procedures.
  • Ensures accounting systems and process controls are following company standards and best practices. Propose enhancements to controls where needed.
  • Review and analysis of annual operating expenses.
  • Responsible for managing and ensuring that all tenant billings including CAM, RET, and general billback are performed accurately and timely.
  • Review and analysis of budgets prepared by accounting and cross functional team members.
  • Work with the independent CPA firm to produce Audited Financials for entities as required. Provide required support for year-end audit or other financial inquiries.
  • Review compliance with loan agreements that include debt covenant compliance, debt yield and debt service coverage tests and all other ongoing monitoring of the loans. Review all loan draws provided to the lenders.
  • Oversee the cash management for each property that will include distributions, capital calls and investment of excess cash in certain investments (sweeps, money markets, etc.).
  • Be an integral member of efficiency and other projects that the company/department will undertake. Lead certain initiatives where you can lend your expertise to effect change.
  • Review REIT compliance and planning related to this.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for management and oversite of the company’s property accounting functions including assisting with establishing and maintaining accounting principles, practices, procedures, initiatives and industry best practices.
  • Review financial reports and supporting records, presents findings and makes recommendations to accounting executives.
  • Review and analysis of tax returns and compliance reports. Supervise and coordinate all audit and reporting requirements.
  • Responsible for reviewing all budgeting and reforecasting for a portfolio of properties.
  • Manages cash management at each property to ensure that distributions are made strategically based on what is happening at each property and determining when capital calls are needed.
  • Responsible for review of debt compliance in accordance with loan documents.
  • Supervise and mentor staff.
  • Assist portfolio controllers in providing ongoing feedback to ensure all associates have a clear understanding of performance.

Immediate Opportunity/Initial Success

Senior Managers directly support each of the Portfolio Controllers, who are responsible for their portfolio of assets. As a Senior Manager, you will be your Portfolio Controller’s number one resource for managing your team and its assets.

Potential for Growth/Longer Term Success

Senior Managers will spend the first 12+ months learning about the company, department and portfolio of properties. There will be a significant learning curve related to this. Once this is mastered, the Senior Manager will be an integral member of projects and efficiency initiatives that are needed to make the Accounting Department run as efficiently as possible. The projects and initiatives are critical to the success of the department. Long term, the Senior Manager needs to be confident in the role of managing, motivating and mentoring a staff, being the main resource to their Portfolio Controller for all aspects of each property and a driver of change for the better within the department.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of accounting experience, preferably in commercial real estate.
  • Prior experience in public accounting preferred with CPA designation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
  • Prior management experience, specifically overseeing and reviewing work of accountants.
  • Advanced analytical and quantitative skills.
  • Superior communication and relationship management and presentation skills.
  • Proficiency in GAAP.
  • Advanced Excel skills and accounting software knowledge.
  • Recommend program knowledge includes:
    • Anaplan
    • MRI
    • AvidXchange
    • Advanced Excel Skills including the knowledge of Spreadsheet Server preferable

About WS Development

Massachusetts-based WS Development is a mixed-use developer with a singular mission: creating places people want to be. With an approach that values art, science, innovation and, above all else, people, WS strives to engage each community it serves with best-in-class experiences, designed with our customers, tenants and partners in mind. Established in 1990, WS is one of few vertically-integrated real estate companies that conceptualizes, owns, operates and leases more than 100 properties that range from cutting-edge urban spaces to lifestyle and community centers. With over 22 million square feet of existing space and an additional nine million square feet under development, it is one of the largest privately-owned development firms in the country.

WS is where great ideas and great people come together to design, build, and operate some of the best loved real estate projects in the country. We live at the intersection of entrepreneurship and establishment. We have the infrastructure of decades supporting a culture of free-thinking excellence.

We expect every WS employee to feel welcomed and valued irrespective of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, and life experiences. Or for any other reason.

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