Senior Accountant

A leading global real estate and investment management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California with 14 offices in 10 countries and more than 300 employees.  The Company targets attractive risk-adjusted investment returns across a broad range of predominantly real estate equity and debt oriented investment strategies. The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Senior Accountant – Los Angeles, CA

The Senior Accountant is responsible for partnerships and investments assigned. This includes the general day-to-day maintenance relating to the assigned partnerships and investments. Responsibilities include: accretion calculations, monthly accruals, repetitive payments, quarterly reporting, cash projections, monitoring of agreements and reporting. This individual will play an important part in designing and implementing ongoing procedural changes and automation initiatives, in a fast paced environment characterized by strict adherence to tight deadlines and dedication to quality control in all aspects of the process.

Direct Reports: Staff Accountant

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Loan Accounting

Experience in accounting for mortgage and/or commercial loan assets preferred; including interest accrual methodology, fair value. Prior experience in accounting for REO assets helpful

Will need to frequently interface with operations to identify when hold/disposition assumptions have changed and accretion adjustments are required

Track book versus tax differences

Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all levels of management

Experience with financial Reporting systems (Cognos, Business Objects) and tools highly desirable

Strong knowledge of GAAP

Read and understand Partnership Agreements

Consolidation/Elimination entries

Manage monthly expense accruals and payments

Monthly and quarterly investor reporting, including any required reporting to JV partners

Manage any necessary audits or reviews

Cash Management

Review daily cash balance report

Calculate capital calls and distributions

Process deal fundings

Maintain cash projections

Investment Responsibilities

Investment's capitalization

Understand deal structure

Read and understand all related agreements/documentation relating to the investment

Periodic review of investment performance and Company's intent against underwriting

Track 3rd party debt

Other Responsibilities

Monthly management report

Supervise staff

Invoice coding for A/P department

Approval of staff journal entries

Investor Requests

Other projects as required

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting preferred

4-6 years of public and/or loan accounting

CPA preferred

Skills and Attributes

Self starter

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Highly organized / detail oriented

Ability to multi-task

Proficient with MS Word and Excel

Effective team member

Ability to delegate work to staff accountants

Ability to work in high paced and dynamic environment

We are seeking qualified candidates available to start immediately.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.