Assistant Controller
Current• Oversee team of 15 individuals including coaching, development, training, and compliance with internal and external stakeholders.• Planning, directing, and coordinating accounting functions, providing guidance to accounting managers on internal and external financial statements for clients. • Adjusting internal controls as needed for clients and employees, working with outside tax consultants and auditors on controls, yearend entries, audit functions, and tax reporting with consultants as needed.• Reviewing, assisting, and directing individuals in budgeting, reforecasts, analyzing variances, initiating corrections to the financial statements as needed, job cost, and fixed assets. • Ensuring accounts payable are paid timely, managing, and reviewing wire transfers, bank reconciliations, debt payments, debt ratio calculations, fixed asset schedules, disposals.• Responsible for reviewing monthly, quarterly, and year end reports including revenues, expenses, capital, OPX reconciliations, real estate tax reconciliations, chart of accounts maintenance, and various schedules while driving excellent outcomes for clients with consistent and accurate reporting products. • Implementing new accounting policies and procedures, streamlining workflows for efficiency and accuracy, supervising accounting systems and functions within the team. Communicating with clients directly on annual, quarterly, & monthly calls to discuss budgeting, reforecasting, and various reconciliations. Tailoring budget files as needed for clients, researching variances, and responding to inquiries. • Working with a full REIT client including biweekly status checks ins with the client. Responsible for training and remediating issues with managers and accountants to ensure complete and accurate reporting, including SLR, capital tracking, sales tax, P&L analysis.
