Controller

Real Estate Firm seeking a hands-on Controller to oversee accounting and financial operations across a growing multifamily apartment portfolio. This role is ideal for a real estate accounting leader who enjoys building structure, modernizing systems, and partnering closely with ownership to elevate financial reporting and operational clarity. The Controller will play a critical role in strengthening financial controls, streamlining processes, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting while supporting the organization’s continued growth.

Key Responsibilities
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Financial Leadership & Reporting
• Oversee all accounting functions for the multifamily portfolio, including monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
•   Prepare and deliver clear, accurate financial statements and consolidated reporting for ownership
•   Manage budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across properties and entities
•   Ensure GAAP-compliant accounting practices and consistency across the portfolio
• Oversee accounting across a complex, multi-entity structure including LPs, LLCs, and corporate entities
• Serve as the primary accounting partner for loan underwriting, refinancings, and ongoing lender relationships, including preparation of lender-facing reporting and responses to lender inquiries.

Systems & Process Modernization
• Lead the evaluation, implementation, and optimization of accounting systems and property management software
•   Ensure strong alignment between property management systems and the general ledger
•   Design and improve workflows to enhance efficiency, scalability, and internal controls
•   Standardize reporting, policies, and procedures across entities and properties
•   Drive automation and process improvements to reduce manual work and improve data integrity


Portfolio & Property Accounting
• Oversee property-level accounting including rent roll reconciliation, CAM recoveries, accruals, and intercompany transactions
• Partner with asset management and operations teams to support property performance and decision-making
• Support acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings, and capital projects from an accounting and reporting perspective
• Oversee ongoing in-house construction and renovation accounting, including capitalization of costs and maintenance of fixed asset schedules

Compliance & Controls
•   Manage audit, tax, and lender reporting processes in coordination with external partners
•   Ensure compliance with loan covenants, reporting requirements, and internal policies
•   Strengthen internal controls and risk management practices
• Coordinate and review external cost segregation studies and depreciation schedules, ensuring alignment with construction records and entity financials
•   Provide oversight of payroll accounting across multiple entities and pay structures, including
California wage and hour compliance

Team Leadership
•   Lead, mentor, and develop internal accounting staff and third-party accounting resources
•   Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration
•   Spearhead documentation and transfer of institutional knowledge


Qualifications
•   Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA preferred)
• 10–15+ years of progressive accounting experience managing accounting for multifamily real estate portfolios at scale
•   Strong knowledge of property accounting, financial reporting, and real estate structures
•   Experience modernizing accounting systems and improving processes in a growing organization
•   Hands-on leader comfortable operating in a lean, entrepreneurial environment
• Advanced Excel and QuickBooks skills; experience with property management and accounting platforms (e.g., Yardi, MRI, AppFolio – with Yardi experience highly preferred)

Working Style & Attributes
•   Highly logical, analytical thinker with strong numerical intuition
•   Able to see the big picture across many entities, properties, and workflows
•   Exercises sound judgment and common sense in complex, real-world environments
•   Detail-oriented while understanding materiality and scale
•   Comfortable working with long-tenured teams and established institutional knowledge
• Comfortable thinking like a lender and anticipating underwriting questions when preparing financial reporting

Why This Role
•   Direct access to ownership and meaningful influence on how the organization operates
•   Long-term, patient capital with a true owner-operator mindset
•   Opportunity to modernize and scale financial infrastructure
•   Broad scope and autonomy in a family-office environment
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Please submit your resume for consideration!