Director - Property & Investment Accounting

About the Role

The Director – Property & Investment Accounting will lead Landmark’s integrated property and investment accounting functions, overseeing financial reporting, fund accounting, and audit execution across a complex portfolio of real estate investments, joint ventures, and managed properties. This role ensures the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial reporting for property-level operations, investment vehicles (funds, REITs, JVs), and related ownership structures. The Director will serve as a key leader within the accounting organization, partnering closely with asset management, development, treasury, tax, and executive leadership.

Reports to: Managing Director - Accounting

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership over all property accounting functions including monthly close and financial reporting.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, checklists, and internal controls.
• Partner with asset management and operations on financial performance.
• Oversee a team of three experienced, long-tenure property accounting managers.
• Oversee fund and investor-level accounting including consolidations and eliminations.
• Manage the process around deliverables by fund administrators, including capital calls, rebalancing, annual reporting, and ad hoc reporting.
• Collaborate with the asset management team on valuations and waterfall calculations.
• Lead external audits for properties, joint ventures, and funds, serving as the secondary liaison with auditors.
• Ensure timely and accurate audit completion, improving audit processes and documentation.
• Lead and develop accounting teams across property and fund accounting, establishing structure, accountability, and performance standards.
• Manage hiring, training, and development of the accounting team.
• Partner with asset management, development, treasury, and tax teams to support fund launches, acquisitions, and dispositions.
• Provide accounting guidance on deal structures and JV agreements.
• Drive improvements in reporting accuracy and close timelines, enhancing systems, automation, and scalability.
• Promote the team’s use of AI tools, including CoPilot and Claude.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA preferred.
• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in real estate accounting, including property and fund accounting.
• Experience managing audits, fund administrators, and large accounting teams.

Skills

• Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting.
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of industry best practices and regulatory compliance.

Work Environment

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel: None required.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee may infrequently drive a vehicle (intrastate and interstate travel) or be subject to air travel for Company business.