Accounting Manager – Real Estate Transactions

Job title:

Accounting Manager – Real Estate Transactions

Company

Homeward

Job description

About HomewardHomeward aims to take the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that buyers and sellers use to get certainty and convenience in the real estate market. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first, real estate start-up that partners with agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move – no matter the market. We offer bundled services across offers, Mortgage, and Title, making buying a home more seamless.Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer four services — Buy with Cash, Buy Before You Sell, Sell Before You List, and Backed by Cash, in the 7 states we serve — Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.As a remote company, we anchor to our three core values as a collective way to care for each other, represent our work, and reinforce our mission to make homebuying more accessible for all. Those are: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. about what our values mean to themAbout The OpportunityHomeward is looking for an Accounting Manager to be the high level reviewer over the high volume of Homeward’s real estate property accounting entries and reconciliations , to evaluate the balance sheet and income statement for each of the homes, and to communicate frequently and timely with the Homeward Transactions team to ensure cross-functional alignment. In this role, you will report to the Assistant Controller, manage a team of 3, resolve escalated issues, investigate complicated discrepancies, and streamline and automate processes. This role will require the use of skills in high attention to detail, organization, and clear, timely and frequent communication. This role will be fast-paced, exciting, and collaborative, and requires someone who enjoys staying busy while also remaining calm and friendly with others during the demands of Homeward’s high-growth business.This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.In This Role, You Will:

• Manage a team of 3, helping everyone prioritize and ensuring time is efficiently managed to hit goals and deadlines, while staying abreast of any roadblocks or issues.
• Actively assess on a recurring basis any processes that could be improved, streamlined, automated, or updated in order to help prevent potential future errors or omissions.
• Efficiently reviewing all home purchase and home sale accounting activity and reconciliations to source data on a daily to weekly cadence, asking the team questions to investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Creating reports and searches within Netsuite and large data sets within excel or google sheets in order to efficiently review property revenue and cost trends, ensure accuracy of data, and timely identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Create reconciliations and formulas from scratch to assist in data completeness and accuracy between Netsuite and other systems, as needed.
• Provide knowledgeable explanations during each month-end close, for month over month fluctuations in accounts on the balance sheet and P&L based on review and involvement in the property transactions review from day-to-day work.
• Proactively and timely asking questions from various accounting team members, your supervisor, or other teams in the company for any information deemed missing, or unclear.
• Proactively and consistently provide feedback and review comments to team of 3 to help them learn from any mistakes and consistently grow.,
• Consistently respond to questions via email or slack messenger actively and timely.
• Other accounting team projects as necessary, which will require the same skills outlined below.

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years experience with accounting transactions and reports.
• 2+ consecutive years experience in managing others.
• Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work; detail-oriented.
• Excellent timeliness, responsiveness, and interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Organizational skills to be able to easily track multiple tasks, questions, and responses.
• Demonstrated the ability to calmly manage multiple requests, and prioritize them well while maintaining a great attitude during tight deadlines.
• Solution-oriented approach to research and problem-solving, preferring to place focus on the best way to solve problems rather than focusing only on the problems themselves
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel: high proficiency with vlookups, sumifs, pivot tables, embedded IF functions, sort and filter well, display information concisely and with high readability. You have consistently demonstrated the ability to use excel effectively to assist in analyzing data, and to automate and review large data sets quickly
• Prior experience in real estate transactions is highly preferred (familiarity with a HUD/closing disclosure).
• Experience with Netsuite is highly preferred.
• Prior experience with working for a company with many subsidiaries or funds would be preferred.

Pay & Benefits:

• Compensation range: $95,000 – $105,000 Base
• Remote-first environment (our Headquarters are in Austin, TX, come visit!)
• Company-wide bonus
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee
• 401(k) employer contribution match
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits .Value-Driven Employee ExperienceTHE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies – Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.

Expected salary

$95000 – 105000 per year

Location

Austin, TX

Job date

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:58:39 GMT

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