Financial Consulting Manager - Real Estate Accounting
About The Position
RSM's Real Estate Finance as a Service (FaaS) practice is looking for skilled professionals to join us at the Manager level. RSM’s Real Estate FaaS blends the best of both worlds by providing candidates with all the career growth opportunities that come with working for a public accounting firm, while at the same time operating in private company environments daily. We provide accounting, technology and consulting services to private, middle market clients, with real estate assets under management ranging from $50 million to $200 billion. In other words, we are the accounting department for our clients. Our diverse real estate industry base includes developers, private equity asset managers, property operators, and family offices. This position will need to work to deadlines and a multitude of accounting activities, such as month end close, financial reporting, year-end audit support, and the support of budget and forecasting activities. In addition, you will have the ability to learn and efficiently use our best-in-class cloud based technology stack. FaaS Managers will have contact with our clients (CEO, COO, CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, etc.), as well as other client contacts including tax and professional service providers.
Requirements
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
- CPA is required or in-process
- Experience performing and reviewing property-level accounting and finance functions required
- Experience working with property managers to resolve accounting issues, address concerns, and explain variances required
- Expertise in Real Estate technology systems is required (i.e., Yardi, MRI, etc.)
- Progressive experience in accounting and financial management in a real estate accounting environment, in roles such as accounting manager, assistant controller, controller, director of finance, CFO
- Experience in real estate development projects and construction accounting processes and best practices, including job costing and draw package submissions
- Strong technical financial accounting (GAAP, NCREIF, FMV, etc.) knowledge
- Strong management accounting and operational finance knowledge
- Excellent communication skills across all level of an organization and functional areas (i.e., property managers, accounting staff, management, investors, etc.)
- Experience in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function (financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, etc.)
- Proven leadership, management and coaching skills
- Strong time-management and organizational skills with sensitivity to timeframes, budgets, and outcomes across multiple clients/projects.
- Experience with automated accounting systems (i.e., Yardi, MRI, Blackline, FloQast, Basis)
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a public accounting firm, consulting firm or other professional services environment preferred but not required
Responsibilities
- Overall day-to-day management of the accounting and finance functions of multiple clients in a shared services environment playing the Controller role of your clients
- Work in client technology environments as well as within the FaaS tech stack
- Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with FaaS best practices in areas such as chart of account redesign, procure to pay, order to cash, month end close, record to report, etc.
- Lead, manage and coach client services representatives, associates, senior associates and supervisors
- Review client’s monthly financial statements including month-over-month variance analysis and budget-vs-actual analysis
- Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support
- Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients’ monthly operations and make suggestions for process improvements
- Understand our technology stack and identify additional add-on processes, systems, modules and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.
- Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects.
- Establish engagement budgets and take accountability over engagement economics
- Direct initial assessments, implementations and onboarding of new FaaS clients
- Write service agreements and statements of work
- Participate in meetings with new client prospects and in the proposal process
- Oversee and manage the billings and collections of client services invoices
Benefits
- competitive benefits and compensation package
- flexibility in your schedule
- discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
