Controller, Real Estate Development Top Firm (100 Paid Healthcare)

A top-performing real estate investment manager is adding aController Real Estate Developmentto support its growing digital infrastructure platform. The firm combines the resources and sophistication of a large institutional investment manager with an entrepreneurial collaborative environment and direct exposure to senior leadership.

This role will lead accounting across the full lifecycle of large-scale data center developments from project setup and construction through stabilization and operating accounting. Real estate development accounting experience is essential with responsibility for job cost budgets and reforecasts cost allocations reporting and coordination across development construction investor accounting and portfolio teams.

Company Overview & Benefits

The firm offers a highly competitive total compensation and benefits package including:

• Total cash compensation
• Profit sharing
• 100% company-paid medical dental and vision premiums
• Strong retirement and insurance benefits
• Complimentary MBTA pass
• Generous parental leave and employee-focused perks
• Collaborative high-performing culture

Responsibilities

• Development accounting leadership:Lead accounting for large-scale data center development projects including project setup cost tracking cost categorization allocations and financial oversight.
• Budgeting and reforecasting:Manage development budgets recurring reforecasts scenario analysis and detailed budget-to-actual reporting.
• Project lifecycle accounting:Oversee the transition from development accounting into stabilized operating accounting as projects are completed and placed into service.
• Corporate and operating accounting:Support monthly close financial reporting operating budgets tenant billing reconciliations audit support and AP/AR processes.
• Cross-functional partnership:Work closely with development design and construction investor accounting portfolio management valuations acquisitions dispositions tenants and third-party property managers.
• Team and process leadership:Manage and develop accounting staff while helping establish scalable processes controls and reporting standards for a growing platform.

Qualifications

• Progressive accounting experience
• Meaningful real estate development accounting experience required
• Experience with ground-up construction major redevelopment or other complex development projects
• Strong understanding of job cost accounting project budgets reforecasting cost allocations and variance analysis
• Experience with Yardi Job Cost MRI or a comparable real estate accounting system
• Prior data center digital infrastructure or mission-critical construction experience is highly desirable
• CPA and public accounting experience are helpful but not required