Senior Real Estate Accountant

About the Role

EisnerAmper’s Real Estate group is seeking a real estate accounting professional with expertise using Real Estate platforms such as Yardi, AppFolio, and Intacct. This individual will service real estate clients and manage multi-entity portfolios of properties, both commercial and/or residential.

The EisnerAmper Outsourcing group brings specialized accounting knowledge directly into the offices of a wide range of clients. You will work with a team of accountants and manage relationships with clients, their auditors, internal auditors, and other professionals. Our clients are located throughout the U.S. and are serviced from our offices and virtual environments.

Responsibilities

• Make appropriate journal entries to record mortgage, payroll, utilities, management fees, property insurance, property taxes, and other cash transactions
• Perform bank reconciliations (operating, security deposit, escrow accounts)
• Perform monthly financial review, accrual accounting, and GL reclasses
• Perform reconciliations of the balance sheet accounts
• Perform in-depth review of the income statement
• Perform actual-to-budget variance analysis
• Perform, process, and calculate management fees and distributions
• Prepare monthly financial statement package for ownership to include balance sheet, profit & loss statement, statement of cash flows (if applicable), and bank reconciliations
• Prepare quarterly financial reporting to fulfill lender compliance requirements
• Act as liaison to external auditors by explaining journal entries and financial transactions, providing research data and information as requested, and answering questions necessary to complete the audit in a timely manner
• Submit wires, ACHs, and internal bank transfers
• Develop and upload budgets
• Maintain job costing schedules and prepare construction draw packages
• Maintain CAM and operation escalation schedules

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 3+ years’ experience in property accounting managing multiple properties and/or entities, 3+ years of audit experience focusing on real estate clients, or a combination of both

Skills

• Experience with Yardi (preferred)
• Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field (preferred)
• Experience working with task management and workpaper systems (Blackline, Floqast) (preferred)
• Experience working with AppFolio and/or Avid Exchange (preferred)

About EisnerAmper

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with nearly 5,000 employees including 450 partners across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective to help clients meet pressing issues and position them for success. Our clients include enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions, start-ups, global public firms, middle-market companies, high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries.

At EisnerAmper, you can design a career you’ll love with tools to succeed and autonomy to reach your goals. The firm has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards and fosters a culture where ideas, experiences, and innovation come together to create solutions. We embrace differences, believing they unite us as a team and strengthen our foundation. Showing up authentically inspires both professionals and the firm to do their best work.

Preferred location: New York.