Corporate Controller

Our OC Real Estate client is a specialist in land acquisition, entitlement, development, and management. The portfolio is growing 30-40% over the next two years so they are expanding their leadership team in multiple functional areas! This role will support the Corporate operations and oversee 7-9 staff responsible for corporate accounting, payroll, tax and administration!

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Oversees Accounting Manager responsible for preparation and posting of monthly standard and adjusting journal entries. Prepares journal entries to record financial transactions to the general ledger such as, cash transaction accruals, prepaid amortization, service contract accruals, allocations, and intercompany activities.
• Review assigned general ledger accounts for propriety and reasonableness, investigate questionable transactions, form reasonable conclusions, make recommendations to leadership and prepare correcting journal entries as appropriate.
• Reviews monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts. Identifies, researches, and corrects account discrepancies.
• Examine a variety of financial statements and documents for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with accounting requirements. Performs moderately complex analyses and makes recommendations to management regarding appropriateness of retail reserves and accruals.
• Collaborates with property level and development leaders on best practices and reporting efficiencies in Yardi.
• Oversee company-wide payroll and benefit administration
• Support departmental budgeting & forecasting
• Assists in annual financial audit and tax compliance with external auditor

EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 12-15 years of related corporate accounting and public accounting foundation / experience required.
• 6+ years in accounting management
• CPA
• Real Estate, Professional Services or Investment Management industry strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel – including ability to develop analyses using Pivot Tables, V-Lookups and other Excel tools required.
• MRI or Yardi experience