Senior Accountant

Company: large publicly traded REIT company

Location: Irvine, CA

Salary: 75-85K DOE + bonus 15-20%

Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly schedules (income statements), Flux Reports, and Variance Reports
• Responsible for General Ledger/Journal Entry input and reconciliation to sub-ledgers
• Analyze and reconcile the accounts
• Maintain schedules including depreciation, amortization, tenant improvements, escrows, accruals, straight-line rent and pre-paid schedules
• Update all capital assets and depreciation
• Assist with Budget/Reforecast preparation
• Input/import budget data into Yardi.
• Perform bank reconciliation of all cash accounts
• Assist in preparation of audit workpapers (analysis and reconcile the accounts)
• Analyze year-end adjusting entries
• Review tenant work orders for coding and for sales tax; ensure that charges are appropriate
• Review and account for construction activity and capital improvements
• Track payments of all capital projects
• Obtain draw request information for escrow/reserve drawdown

Qualifications:

• BA degree in Accounting
• CPA preferred
• Real estate experience, particularly within hotel property accounting heavily preferred
• Public/private background desired
• Strong communication skills
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Waterfall calculation experience preferred
• GAAP exposure is a must
• Cash management experience preferred