Senior Accountant

Progress Residential•Scottsdale, AZ

About The Position

As a leading property manager of single-family rental homes nationwide, Progress Residential takes great pride in creating an enjoyable living experience for its residents and an empowering, people-first culture for its team members. The Senior Accountant is responsible for assisting with the month-end close process, ensuring transactions are recorded in the proper period, and serving as a resource for the corporate accounting team on challenging accounting tasks. This position requires interfacing with various departments to provide and receive information pertinent to accounting issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university, with an accounting or finance major.
3 to 5 years related accounting experience preferred.
Proficient in various software packages including, but not limited to, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Office.
Strong Excel proficiency such as pivot tables, lookups and formula creation required.
Experienced in use of accounting enterprise software.
Able to use data from different sources to identify issues and quickly identify the central or underlying issues in a complex situation.
Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and presentation skills.
Proven self-starter with ability to work independently.
Reliable, dependable and trustworthy.
Performs duties in a professional manner and in accordance with laws and regulations.

Nice To Haves

CPA a plus.
Yardi experience a plus.
Property Management experience a plus.

Responsibilities

Assist in the month-end close process and search for continuous improvement in processes and quality and timeliness of work.
Help create and maintain all methods, models, and workflows necessary to ensure shared expenses are properly allocated among entities based on established metrics.
Complete required account reconciliations and expense analysis.
Review preliminary statements and investigate unusual fluctuations and unexpected activity.
Assist in the preparation of monthly internal management reports.
Maintain and improve reporting as needed to meet management requests.
Work with accounting manager to respond to requests from external auditors, including completing support schedules and providing detail as requested.
Draft and update accounting policies, procedures, practices, and guidelines, focusing on ways to improve processes through automation.
Conduct special projects and other services at the request of management, which includes financial analysis and accounting research.