The Role
The Controller will lead accounting and financial operations for a real estate portfolio, ensuring reporting accuracy, compliance, and process improvements while collaborating with ownership and external parties.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our SelectLeaders client, a privately held real estate investment firm, is seeking a highly skilled, hands on Controller to lead the accounting and financial operations of a retail and office portfolio. This strategic, hands-on role combines multi-entity oversight, property-level accounting, transaction management, and operational leadership. You will work directly with ownership, a third-party CPA, and third-party property managers in a collaborative environment, driving financial accuracy, efficiency, and reporting across the organization.
Responsiblities
- Oversee month-end close and reconciliations across all entities (10–15 LLCs), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting.
- Manage property-level financials, including CAM/NNN reconciliations (handled in-house).Lead year-end close activities with our third-party CPA, including tax preparation, filings, and coordination for all entities.
- Manage transaction accounting for acquisitions, dispositions, and refinances, including closing the books, proper accounting treatment, and reporting.
- Review and approve property-level financials prepared by third-party property managers, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal policies.
- Implement and maintain treasury controls, including cash flow forecasting, bank account management, and property-level distributions.
- Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages to ownership, highlighting key insights and performance metrics.
- Monitor compliance with banking, lender reporting, compliance portals, and entity filings.
- Analyze and reconcile incomplete or irregular financials from acquisitions, ensuring accurate reporting for properties with limited historical records.
- Identify and implement process improvements and optimize accounting systems (AppFolio preferred but not required).
- Act as the primary liaison between accounting, property management, and ownership to ensure accurate and timely information flow.
- Support strategic financial decisions, including budgeting, forecasting, and investment analysis.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of accounting experience in commercial real estate with multi-entity, NNN/CAM reconciliations, and transaction accounting experience for retail and office assets.
- Proven ability to analyze, clean up, and reconstruct financials from incomplete or irregular data.
- Experience overseeing and reviewing third-party property manager financial reporting.
- Strong knowledge of banking, lender reporting, compliance portals, entity filings, and year-end close.
- Demonstrated expertise in transaction accounting related to acquisitions, dispositions, and refinances.
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA preferred.
- Experience with AppFolio preferred but not required.
- Must be adaptable, proactive, and willing to provide strategic insights to support ownership.
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