Controller – Investment Firm

Professional Alternatives
Job ID#: 9360
Controller – Investment Firm
Direct Hire; up to 80K + bonus
Galleria location
Duties:
- Prepare annual budget; produce all financial information accurately and timely
- Prepare work papers supporting annual tax return; coordinate preparation of annual tax return with CPA firm
- Implement process to record transactions for partnership books and compare costs incurred to budget and performance analysis of profit centers
- Review and record journal entries required to reflect monthly activity
- Prepare work papers supporting monthly close process and month-end balances
- Review monthly accounting close process including analytical review of monthly operating results to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained
- Prepare monthly financial statements for corporate entities and journal entries for acquisitions and dispositions
- Perform cash projections to effectively manage cash balances and maximize return on excess cash balances
- Prepare bi-weekly payroll for corporate employees
- Supervise billing of asset management, incentive, acquisition, disposition, and other fees periodically, per in-place agreements
- Supervise accounts payable processed in corporate office; includes corporate payables and allocations of costs incurred on behalf of partnership entities
- Categorize fixed asset records at year-end to submit to an outside CPA firm to update asset schedules
- Submit loan compliance records to lender
- Implement, document, and maintain adequate and effective processes to improve closing and reporting cycles to ensure timely and accurate reporting
- Perform bank reconciliations for corporate accounts and oversee partnership bank reconciliations
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations
- Properly analyze operations from a balance sheet, income statement and cash flow perspective as well as an overall business perspective
- Create 1099 year-end records
- Review and process all financial distributions to investors from partnerships
- File partnership franchise tax returns, and corporate Rendition Reports
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations for all entities
- Open and close corporate and property bank accounts on a timely basis
- Maintain books for 2 property development transactions and monitor budget variances
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- 3+ years in a position equivalent to a Controller
- Experience in both private and public accounting sectors preferred
- Proficiency in QuickBooks and advanced Excel skills
- Knowledge of intercompany financial transactions
- Detail-oriented, work autonomously, analytical and task-oriented; troubleshoot unfamiliar areas; comfortable with working with outside auditors
Other Info:
- Seeking new team member to wow them; no management duties
- Audit background helpful
- Real estate helpful
- Brainstorm with and support SVP of Finance
- Contribute new techniques
- Current team member leaving the organization to continue education
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