Yardi AND ("Property Accountant" OR "Senior Accountant")

Employee-oriented full-service commercial real estate company located in Duluth seeks to hire an in-office Property Accountant to handle accounting functions for a retail/office portfolio.

The Property Accountant is responsible for full cycle property management accounting for a portfolio of assigned commercial properties. Work involves frequent communication and interaction with clients as well as accounting, leasing and property management team members.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare accurate and timely financial statements with supporting documentation.
• Review and approve accounts payable invoices.  Ensure invoices are properly coded, expensed to the correct property, period and cash type.
• Process and post tenant cash receipts.
• Calculate Owner distributions several times per month.
• Book requested owner journal entries.
• Post tenant bill backs in the current period – Expense reimbursements and utility reimbursements.
• Generate recurring charges on the first of the month and upload tenant rent statements to payment portal.
• Generate mid-month late statements and upload to payment portal.
• Set up new leases in accounting software.
• Review accounting portion of lease abstract for accuracy in a timely manner.
• Prepare annual CAM/ Tax/ Ins reconciliations and annual Water/ Electric reconciliations.
• Bank Reconciliations.
• Research and answer Property Manager’s questions regarding tenants, property income and expenses.
• Work with Property Manager to prepare annual budgets for all properties and reforecasts as needed.
• Respond to owner communication in a timely manner.
• Assist Supervisor with special projects as necessary, ad-hoc reporting as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent experience.
• Experience in property management or real estate accounting required.
• Yardi experience preferred.
• Excel experience required.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with little direction or supervision.
• Able to meet and/ or exceed strict deadlines.
• Excellent organization and communication skills mandatory.

Salary range is $80 - $85,000 DOE plus discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance. Start/end times can be flex 8am - 4:30pm, 8:30am - 5pm or 9am - 5:30pm. Benefits include Medical (100% employer paid for employee), Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, Life, Healthcare Savings Account, 401(k) with 4% matching, 11 paid holidays including 1 floating, 16 PTO upon hire and 1 day per year of service up to 26 days, and early release on Friday - 3:30pm or 1pm if holiday weekend.

THIS IS A PERMANENT DIRECT HIRE IN-OFFICE ROLE AND OUR FEES ARE ALWAYS ASSUMED BY THE HIRING COMPANY. Confidentiality assured!

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