Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR) is an equity real estate investment trust focused on delivering long-term, profitable growth. Acadia owns and operates a high-quality real estate portfolio of street and open-air retail properties in the nation's most dynamic retail corridors (“REIT Portfolio”), along with an investment management platform that targets opportunistic and value-add investments through its institutional co-investment vehicles (“Investment Management”). For further information, please visit www.acadiarealty.com.
Acadia Realty Trust is seeking a Senior Accountant to support its SEC reporting, supplemental reporting, technical accounting, and investor communications processes. This role will be a key contributor to the Company's quarterly reporting cycle, including preparation of Form 10-Q and Form 10-K filings, earnings materials, supplemental reporting packages, internal management reporting, and fund/property reporting.
The position requires a strong technical accounting foundation, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines in a fast-paced public company environment. The successful candidate will partner across Accounting, Asset Management, Property Accounting, FP&A, Legal, and Investor Relations to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of both internal and external reporting.
This role reports directly to the VP of Financial Reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting
- Assist in the preparation and review of quarterly and annual SEC filings, including Forms 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K, earnings releases, and related supporting schedules.
- Update and maintain SEC reporting workpapers and supporting documentation for acquisitions, dispositions, financings, debt modifications, leasing transactions, and other significant events.
- Prepare accounting memoranda, rollforward analyses, and technical accounting documentation under U.S. GAAP for routine and moderately complex transactions.
- Lead the preparation and maintenance of disclosure checklists and assist in ensuring compliance with SEC and U.S. GAAP reporting requirements.
- Lead with disclosure analyses and other reporting requirements related to acquisitions, dispositions, and investment activities.
Supplemental Reporting and Investor Materials
- Support preparation of quarterly supplemental reporting packages, earnings presentations, and investor-facing materials.
- Verify the accuracy and completeness of non-GAAP financial measures, including FFO, EBITDA, and other key REIT performance metrics.
- Ensure consistency among SEC filings, earnings materials, supplemental disclosures, and investor presentations.
Property and Portfolio Reporting
- Maintain and analyze property-level operating and leasing data used in internal and external reporting.
- Prepare and reconcile property detail schedules supporting occupancy, signed-not-open activity, rent spreads, and other key portfolio metrics.
- Lead in validating lease-related reporting data, including occupancy statistics, leasing metrics, and supplemental disclosures.
- Monitor property-level trends and investigate variances to ensure reporting accuracy.
Fund and Management Reporting
- Lead preparing quarterly fund reporting packages and supporting analyses.
- Lead preparation of Senior Management Team reporting packages.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to collect, validate, and reconcile information used in management reporting.
Process Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, automate recurring analyses, and strengthen reporting controls, including use of data tools and AI where applicable
- Develop and maintain reporting trackers, schedules, and documentation that improve reporting efficiency and accuracy.
- Other administrative responsibilities as required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
- Active CPA license required.
- 3-5 years of public accounting and/or SEC reporting experience.
- Big 4 public accounting experience strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.
- REIT and/or commercial real estate experience strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting public company quarterly and annual reporting processes.
- Advanced Excel skills with ability to work extensively with large datasets and complex reporting workbooks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, identify issues proactively, and drive projects to completion.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work effectively across departments.
Key Success Characteristics
- Ownership mentality and bias toward action.
- Highly organized and deadline driven.
- Proactive communicator who escalates issues early.
- Ability to independently research, analyze, and document accounting conclusions.
- Strong judgment and attention to detail.
- Capable of balancing numerous reporting deliverables simultaneously while maintaining accuracy.
The base salary compensation range for this role reflects the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to, skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each individual. A reasonable estimate of the current base salary range for this position is $90,000 to $120,000.
Employees may also be eligible to participate in an annual discretionary bonus program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Acadia Realty is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Acadia Realty is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veteran/Disability
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- Active CPA license
- 3-5 years of public accounting and/or SEC reporting experience
- Big Four public accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
- REIT and/or commercial real estate experience
- Experience supporting public company quarterly and annual reporting processes
- Advanced Excel skills, including work with large datasets and complex reporting workbooks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently, identify issues proactively, and drive projects to completion
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and cross-functional collaboration ability
What We Do
ARLP GS LLC is the hiring entity associated with Acadia Realty Trust. Acadia is an equity REIT focused on long-term growth through its REIT Portfolio and Investment Management platforms. It acquires, owns, and redevelops retail properties, including street retail, urban/infill sites, and suburban shopping centers, and manages these assets while pursuing core-plus, value-add, and opportunistic investments using institutional capital relationships.
