Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

• Perform monthly/quarterly account analysis and roll-forwards of selected general ledger accounts to ensure accounts properly reflect the company’s financial position in accordance with company policy and GAAP
• Review ledger detail, record adjusting journal entries, and prepare supporting schedules for GAAP-based financial statements
• Assist in the preparation of investment level or fund level financial statements and work papers monthly including Preparing Parent Level Balance Sheet Recs monthly.
• Assist in providing support for annual audits and internal control testing including preparing the draft audit workbook and draft of audit report with footnote support.
• Assist in the monthly/quarterly reporting to lenders, joint venture partners and portfolio companies.
• Coordinate with the treasury team and AVP in preparing wire transfers
• Weekly and monthly outstanding check processing and reporting. Review property-level financial results prepared by third parties, to ensure results properly reflect the company’s financial position and are in accordance with GAAP
• Review Operator Balance Sheet Recs monthly and provide follow-up questions for the operators.
• Prepare bank reconciliations and journal entries as needed
• Assess and react to changing business conditions, in terms of their impact to the supported organization
• Ensure team’s processes and procedures support the department’s goals according to guidelines and policies
• Assist in on-boarding operators for acquisitions, dispositions, and other similar transactions including the review and recording of initial entries.

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Relationship Management

• Accountable to portfolio company’s or joint venture partner’s satisfaction with the accounting team’s performance, responsiveness, and interactions
• Lead initiatives to ensure smooth business partner experience across the team.
• Become day-to-day go-to person for business partners, including portfolio company, joint venture partners.
• Respond to business partner inquiries and commit to deliverables by leveraging resources across the team
• Partner with other team members to identify and drive external relationships with the team’s key contacts and stakeholders, including third-party accounting departments and third-party operators’ accounting teams
• Assist other portfolio companies during project initiatives on an as-needed basis