Senior Corporate Accountant

Arboreal Management • Hilton Head Island, SC

17d • Hybrid

About The Position

Arboreal Management is a fast-growing, tech-enabled, and fully integrated real estate platform for the Pacific Northwest, focused on affordable housing. The company develops, remodels, and manages housing to address critical regional needs. Their platform includes property management (Arboreal Management), in-house construction (Arboreal Construction), and a development and investment platform (Great Expectations). They aim to deliver below-market rents to residents while achieving above-market returns for investors through vertical integration, operational discipline, and a commitment to long-term ownership. As the company scales, they are building a finance and accounting team to support complex construction and development activities with accuracy, speed, and transparency. This role offers an opportunity to join a high-performance team working across property management, construction, and development within a unified platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 4+ years of progressive accounting experience with direct exposure to corporate accounting, fund accounting, construction accounting, and/or real estate development accounting
• Strong command of GAAP; experience with intercompany reconciliations and consolidated financials
• Proficiency in AppFolio or comparable property management accounting software
• Advanced Excel skills; comfortable building and maintaining financial models and reporting templates

Nice To Haves

• CPA license (active or inactive)
• Experience in affordable or workforce housing, including LIHTC or HUD-related accounting requirements
• Experience with job costing, construction WIP schedules, and project-level P&L
• Experience with development entity accounting: pre-development capitalization, construction-to-perm transitions, and waterfall distributions
• Familiarity with owner or investor reporting and partner capital accounts
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving processes

Responsibilities

• Prepare and distribute monthly owner statements across all properties and projects, including Great Expectations-owned entities and third-party client relationships.
• Process and reconcile owner distributions on a scheduled basis; maintain distribution ledgers by entity.
• Coordinate distributions and capital call notices for Great Expectations development entities; track capital contributions and partner capital accounts; calculate waterfall distributions.
• Build and maintain standardized owner reporting packages; expand formal reporting to groups currently receiving ad hoc or no reporting.
• Own the monthly close at the Arboreal Management corporate level.
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations and eliminations across all three entities; produce a consolidated financial package for CFO review by close +5 business days.
• Maintain business line P&L reporting for Property Management, Construction, and Development.
• Post and review corporate-level journal entries; maintain chart of accounts integrity at the entity level.
• Prepare margin analysis for Arboreal Management, by function and by property. Provide recommendations for leadership on how to improve performance and balance investments.
• Track receivables from properties back to Arboreal Management for settlement of intercompany reimbursements and fees.
• Maintain entity-level job costing and project accounting for Arboreal Construction with support from a job cost accountant operating offshore.
• Own the construction WIP schedule; review monthly draw reconciliations prepared by the Philippines-based construction accountant for CFO sign-off.
• Track project-level P&L, budget vs. actual variances, and committed costs by job.
• Manage contractor AP reconciliation and lien waiver tracking at the entity level.
• Maintain project ledgers for all active Great Expectations development entities: capitalization of pre-development costs, land basis, and project-level P&L through construction-to-permanent transition with support from an overseas job cost accountant.
• Coordinate with the CFO on investor and lender reporting requirements for active development projects.
• Track development entity capital accounts, equity contributions, and waterfall structures.
• Prepare and maintain a weekly cash position report and 13-week rolling cash flow forecast by entity.
• Monitor operating account balances across all three entities; flag liquidity concerns to the CFO in advance.
• Reconcile and record intercompany cash transfers and loans.
• Lead the accounting setup for newly formed or acquired entities: legal entity configuration, chart of accounts, intercompany structure, and first consolidated close.
• Configure new owner groups; establish reporting templates and distribution schedules before first owner statement is due.
• Coordinate handoff with the Property Accounting Manager, who owns property-level onboarding and the first property financial review.

Benefits

• Work in the affordable housing space and contribute to a mission-driven platform delivering below-market rents while generating above-market returns
• Direct exposure to real estate investment, construction, and development across all stages of the asset lifecycle
• Work with a technology-forward team that builds its own internal tools — you will work in a modern accounting environment, not a legacy one
• Work closely with a CFO and leadership team that moves quickly and trusts their team to execute

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior