• Senior Property Accountant

    CHARLESGATE (Boston, MA)


    Department: Accounting

     

    Type: Full Time

     

    Min. Experience: 5+ years

     

    CHARLESGATE is seeking an energetic Senior Property Accountant with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills to join the accounting department for a portfolio of large multi-family units. The Senior Property Accountant reports to the Accounting Manager, while giving directions to the Property Accountant. This role will have the potential of transitioning to a property supervisor role based on performance.

    Responsibilities of the Senior Property Accountant:

    • Manage full-cycle accounting for an assigned portfolio of multi-family properties, including journal entries, weekly bank reconciliations, and month-end close

    • Review Balance Sheet and Income Statement to ensure accuracy and completeness

    • Maintain accurate tenant ledgers in accordance with company policy and guidance

    • Prepare and deliver monthly financial reporting packages to clients in a timely manner

    • Triage payment of invoices through our payment portal

    • Review monthly financial packets prepared by Property Accountants for completeness and accuracy

    • Supervise the Property Accountant, providing guidance, training, and support.

    • Prepare and maintain quarterly workpapers

    • Review commercial leases and prepare CAM reconciliations to ensure accurate billings

    • Collaborate with the Head of Portfolio to assist in the preparation of the annual property budgets

    • Perform special projects as needed and provide support to the accounting and property management teams.

    • Assist in the external audit, and lender compliance reporting

    • Perform ad hoc projects as needed and provide support to the accounting and property management teams.

    Requirements of the Senior Property Accountant:

    • Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 3.0 minimum

    • 5+ years of accounting experience, minimum three years within the residential and/or multifamily commercial real estate industry.

    • Experience with AppFolio (preferred) or Yardi

    • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

    • Detail oriented and able to handle a large volume of transactions daily

    • Ability to collaborate at a high level with internal staff and external providers

    • Can work with minimal supervision

    • Ability to communicate quickly and effectively daily using various remote office tools such as Slack, Google, or Zoom.

    Working environment

    • This position is located in the corporate office in the Back Bay section of Boston, MA. This position is expected to be in-office a minimum of 3 days/week.

    • Travel outside the office is not expected

    About CHARLESGATE

    CHARLESGATE is an integrated real estate firm that empowers thousands of clients throughout Eastern Massachusetts with a comprehensive array of services across residential and multifamily commercial real estate - property management & leasing, sales brokerage, investment sales, construction, and new development. With deep, local roots, we were founded in Boston in 2003 and are headquartered in Boston. We are rapidly growing, including making the Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

     

    Our VISION is to inspire and empower our clients, our team, and our communities through comprehensive real estate solutions.

     

    As a Values based firm, we are founded on the Core Principles of ETHICS. RELATIONSHIPS. RESULTS. as well as our Seven Fundamental Cultural Values that we expect our team to exhibit:

     

    • Positive Attitude. Smile and move

    • Empathy. Seek first to understand the perspectives of others

    • Proactivity. Bias towards action using good judgement

    • Ownership. See the big picture

    • Curiosity. Think, learn and rapidly improve

    • Resourcefulness. Be effective

    • Communication. Be concise, articulate and make meaning clear

     

    Employees First!

     

    We are an employee first organization that believes that being committed to our employees first is the only way we can deliver the best service to our clients. Our office culture and work environment is second to none to promote harmony in all of our lives. We do everything we can to offer a comprehensive compensation package, including:

     

    • Competitive salary.

    • Health Insurance - Excellent and industry leading coverage.

    • Paid time off - Liberal and flexible. Enjoy yourself.

    • Company holidays - A lot. If it is a holiday, we celebrate it.

    • 401K/FSA/supplemental insurance - All available.

     

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