Director of Property Accounting

We are seeking an experienced REMOTE Director of Accounting to lead our property accounting function and oversee the financial reporting, controls, and accounting processes supporting our portfolio.

This is a fully remote leadership role for someone who can both manage a team and dig into the details when necessary. The ideal candidate understands that great accounting in property management goes beyond producing financial statements—it requires strong systems, clean processes, accurate property-level data, and close collaboration with operations.

Responsibilities

Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Direct the monthly accounting close and financial reporting process across multiple property and ownership entities.
• Review property-level balance sheets, income statements, budget-to-actual reports, general ledgers, trial balances, and supporting schedules for accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure accounting is performed in accordance with GAAP, company policies, partnership requirements, and applicable lender or regulatory requirements.
• Review account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, intercompany activity, and other month-end entries.
• Identify unusual financial activity, reporting inconsistencies, and accounting issues and drive them through resolution.
• Maintain appropriate accounting policies, procedures, workpapers, and internal controls.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of property accounting professionals.
• Establish clear expectations, workflows, deadlines, and accountability for the accounting team.
• Review work product and provide technical guidance and training.
• Evaluate workloads and processes and recommend staffing or workflow changes as the portfolio grows.
• Build a collaborative, service-oriented relationship between accounting, property operations, compliance, and executive leadership.

Property & Portfolio Accounting

• Oversee accounting for a multi-property portfolio that includes affordable and conventional multifamily housing.
• Support new-property and new-client onboarding, including chart-of-account mapping, opening balances, banking, reporting structures, and accounting workflows.
• Oversee cash management and monitor property-level cash needs.
• Review cash forecasts and help leadership identify liquidity issues and funding requirements.
• Oversee accounts payable processes and payment controls.
• Partner with operations teams to resolve resident, subsidy, utility, vendor, and property-level accounting issues.

Audit, Tax & Compliance

• Coordinate annual financial statement audits and tax-return preparation with external accountants and auditors.