Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- Experience
- 4+ years of accounting experience
- Development/job cost accounting or real estate accounting required
- Strong general ledger experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience with Yardi preferred
- Skills & Attributes
- High ethical standards and integrity
- Excellent written, verbal, and listening communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Effective time management and prioritization abilities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Quick learner with a customer-focused mindset
Key Responsibilities
- Development Accounting
- Prepare, review, and post payables to ensure accuracy and timely processing
- Record loan funding receipts
- Record entries related to asset transfers and land takedowns for vertical development
- Calculate and process development fees
- Record earnest money deposits
- Prepare overhead capitalization entries
- Record capitalized lease-up losses for newly completed projects
- Update development reports and maintain current cost projections
- Review project classifications (proposed, under development, abandoned, completed) and record necessary entries
- Prepare construction loan draws
- Operational Accounting
- Prepare, review, and post rent charges and payment receipts
- Calculate and apply late fee charges
- Maintain depreciation and amortization schedules
- Prepare journal entries, receipts, and other recurring charges
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Monitor aged receivables and support collection efforts
- Prepare deferred rent schedules and set up recurring entries
- Prepare and review month-end close reports including trial balance, income statement, general ledger, AP, AR, and budget variances
- Track and reconcile tenant security deposits and tenant improvement costs
- Joint Venture Reporting
- Prepare contribution requests as needed
- Prepare monthly joint venture reporting packages, including financials and variance explanations
- Support Functions
- Assist with annual business plan preparation and building-level operating budgets
- Support annual audit preparation and provide requested documentation to external auditors
Top Skills
What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future.
GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide.
Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
