Our national multi-family management company seeks a Controller with a "Whatever it Takes" attitude to provide leadership and coordination of the assigned area's financial planning, debt financing, and budget management functions to ensure compliance with the Company's accounting procedures and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Job Summary

Responsible for the accounting operations of the property management division and related entities, to include the production of monthly financial reports, maintenance of an adequate system of account records and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company’s reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles. Must be highly organized, have outstanding communication skills, and able to work effectively with all levels of management.

REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer

SUPERVISES: Property Management Accountants and Property Management Accounts Payable Associates

Essential Function:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures
• Manage property management accountants and accounts payable associates
• Oversee the preparation and review of monthly financial statements for various properties, this could be as many as 50 sets of financial statements
• Approve timesheets and time-off requests
• Develop/create training for team

• Ensure that various transactions are recorded on a timely basis
• Monitor the preparation of weekly bank reconciliations
• Ensure that each property has sufficient cash to operate effectively
• Maintain the chart of accounts
• Ensure that new property takeovers are appropriately set up
• Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions

• Issue accurate and complete financial statements by required deadlines
• Review budget variances and report significant issues to upper management
• Provide financial analysis as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions and contract negotiations

• Coordinate the provision of information to external auditors for the annual audit
• Comply with local, state and federal reporting requirements and tax filings

Education/Certification/Training

BA in Accounting or Business Administration or equivalent business experience and 5 years of progressively responsible experience for a major company, a division of a large corporation or public accounting firm. Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant designations required.

A combination of education, training, certifications and experience that demonstrates the application and usage of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated proficiency in financial statement analysis in order to review, audit, reconcile, and produce accurate detailed financial reports. In addition, this position will need to review/create financial statements and address technical issues. The ability to research guidance to ensure meeting GAAP requirements and propose any necessary changes.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise various staff positions including the ability to provide technical guidance, problem solving, delegation and managing schedules.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently manage priorities with competing deadlines and modify timelines or approach to meet required deadlines.
• Proficiency in workflow and project management, financial modeling, and budgeting procedures in order to develop and implement budget management tools and templates.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to senior management, clients, team members, and other stakeholders.
• Proficiency in using property management software (RealPage and ResMan as well as Nexus) used by the Company, as well as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in order to design, develop and complete required reports. Must be comfortable with working with large spreadsheets and advanced formulas in excel.
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimum supervision, therefore, must have excellent spelling and grammar and be able to proof own work; have good telephone skills, be organized, meet deadlines and have the ability to multi-task.
• This position requires constant interactions with public accounting firms for both audit and tax.

Allied Orion Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.