Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- Experience
- 2–4 years of accounting experience
- Development/job cost accounting or real estate accounting experience preferred
- Strong general ledger background
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience with Yardi preferred
- Skills & Attributes
- High ethical standards and strong sense of integrity
- Strong written, verbal, and listening communication skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Team-oriented with strong time-management and prioritization abilities
- Professional, dependable, and customer-focused
- Problem-solver with a results-driven mindset
- Able to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
Key Responsibilities
- Development Accounting
- Set up construction budgets for new projects in the accounting system
- Analyze development reports and update cost projections with the project team
- Review project status classifications (proposed, under development, abandoned, completed) and record related entries
- Prepare and submit construction loan draws; respond to lender inquiries
- Calculate and record development fees
- Record land takedowns for vertical development
- Maintain non-financial development tracking data
- Record land acquisitions, including earnest money deposits
- Record capitalized lease-up losses for newly completed projects
- Operational Accounting
- Review and process monthly tenant rent charges
- Monitor aged receivables and support collection efforts
- Calculate and charge late fees when applicable
- Prepare deferred rent schedules and set up recurring entries
- Maintain depreciation and amortization schedules and recurring journal entries
- Process monthly debt payments
- Lead month-end close activities, including trial balance review, variance analysis, GL review, and AP/AR review
- Prepare bank reconciliations for multiple accounts
- Record journal entries and support property managers with variance analysis and reporting
- Joint Venture Reporting
- Prepare monthly joint venture reporting packages, including financials and variance explanations
- Calculate and record monthly net income allocations
- Support Functions
- Review and input property-level operating budgets into the accounting system
- Assist with annual audit schedules and provide information requested by 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).
