Real Estate Accounting Supervisor - Finance as a Service

RSMs Finance as a Service (FaaS) practice is looking for skilled professionals to join us at the Supervisor level. RSMs FaaS practice blends to best of both worlds by providing candidates with all the career growth opportunities that come with working for a public accounting firm while at the same time operating in private company environments on a daily basis. We provide accounting technology and consulting services to private lower middle market clients with revenues ranging from $0 to $100 million. In other words we are the accounting department for our clients. Our diverse industry base includes technology life science notforprofit consumer products and professional service organizations just to name a few. This position will need to work to deadlines and a multitude of accounting activities such as month end close financial reporting yearend audit support and the support of budget and forecasting addition you will have the ability to learn and efficiently use our bestinclass cloud based technology stack. FAO Supervisors will have contact with our clients (CEO COO CFO VP of Finance Controller etc.) as well as other client contacts including tax and professional service providers.

We operate in a teambased environment and have a proven track record of delivering exceptional value to our customers. The key attributes that will make someone successful in this role include:

• Assertive collaborative team player and desire to develop a Controller skill set
• Desire to collaborate and integrate property fund and corporate levels
• Superior ability to prioritize and focus in a dynamic multitasking environment
• Willingness to learn and work with emerging technology solutions such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition) AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Accounting BOTS
• Professional presentation and great communication skills as contact with clients will be extensive
• Interest in personal/professional development and advancement
• Dedication to lifelong learning including staying abreast of best practices in financial management
• Ability to analyze and interpret not just report financial information to add value to client businesses as a trusted adviser
• Solid Excel skills (create tables use formulas pivot tables)

Responsibilities:

This is a handson position that requires transaction processing and account reconciliation skills. Duties include:

• Key point of contact for our clients full accounting cycles
• Work in client technology environments (primarily Yardi MRI Avid) as well as within the FaaS tech stack
• Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with FaaS best practices in areas such as chart of accounts redesign procure to pay order to cash month end close record to report etc.
• Lead manage and coach client services representatives associates and senior associates
• Work closely with engagement managers to take ownership of daily weekly and monthly client deliverables
• Support the clients month end close process as needed which may include reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations
• Prepare/Review clients monthly financial statements including month over month variance analysis and / or actual to budget analysis
• Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support
• Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients monthly operations and make suggestions for process improvements
• Understand leading real estate technology solutions and identify additional addon processes systems modules and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.
• Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects.
• Establish engagement budgets
• Direct initial assessments implementations and onboarding of new FaaS clients
• Participate in meetings with new client prospects and in the proposal process
• Participate in other team events and initiatives to grow the practice and foster global collaboration

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance is required
• Experience performing and reviewing propertylevel accounting and finance functions required
• Experience working with property managers to resolve accounting issues address concerns and explain variances required
• Expertise in leading Real Estate technology systems (i.e. Yardi MRI)
• Excellent communication skills across all level of an organization and functional areas (i.e. property managers accounting staff management investors etc.)
• Ability to balance multiple responsibilities simultaneously plus excellent analytical and decisionmaking skills
• Progressive experience in accounting and financial management in a real estate accounting environment in roles such as accounting supervisor assistant controller controller.
• Strong technical financial accounting (GAAP NCREIF FMV etc.) knowledge
• Strong management accounting and operational finance knowledge
• Experience in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function (financial modeling budgeting and forecasting financial analysis etc.)
• Proficiency utilizing Microsoft Office (Word Excel Outlook etc.).
• Strong timemanagement and organizational skills with sensitivity to timeframes budgets and outcomes across multiple clients/projects.
• Ability to work independently in a growing dynamic fastpaced environment with extensive multitasking demands
• Experience with automated accounting systems (i.e. Yardi MRI RealPage Appfolio Intacct NetSuite Blackline AvidXchange Alteryx etc.)