Assistant Controller

Kiyora Communities; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiyora Communities is seeking a remote Assistant Controller to own financial reporting and multi-entity accounting across a large platform of entities. You will manage lender and equity partner reporting, and lead the monthly close with a disciplined, process-driven approach.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in accounting and real estate reporting, GAAP expertise, and experience guiding outsourced teams. This remote role reports to the SVP of Operations & Finance and coordinates closely with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting; CPA preferred.
• 6+ years accounting and financial reporting experience, including public accounting / audits, with at least 3 years in real estate accounting.
• Direct experience with lender reporting and debt compliance across multiple loans.
• Experience managing an outsourced or offshore accounting team, with deadline discipline.
• Strong GAAP knowledge, partnership tax, K-1s, and 1099 compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own covenant compliance modeling across all debt and renewals; forecast headroom and flag risks.
• Maintain a single lender reporting calendar; deliver packages on time for all lenders and partners.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly equity partner reporting; manage capital accounts and waterfalls.
• Own the annual financial statement audits with external auditors and deliver timely reports.
• Oversee multi-entity monthly close, intercompany reconciliations, and project accounting workflows.

Skills

Financial reporting

Debt covenants

Lender reporting

Equity reporting

Multi-entity accounting

GAAP knowledge

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

CPA preferred

Tools

Yardi

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Kiyora Communities, a national Build for Rent (BFR) investor and developer, is hiring a remote Assistant Controller to own financial reporting and accounting across a multi-entity platform of more than 30 entities: an operating company, fund vehicles, joint ventures, and project level special purpose entities. The platform is financed with construction loans, bridge loans, and an asset backed securities (ABS) warehouse facility, and capitalized by institutional equity partners. This role makes sure every number the Company reports is right and on time: lender reporting, continuous compliance with every financial covenant and debt requirement, and accurate reporting to equity partners, all built on a disciplined monthly close. The Assistant Controller reports to the SVP of Operations & Finance and manages a third-party accounting team day to day.

Core Focus 1: Financial Reporting

• Financial Covenants & Debt Compliance: Own the covenant compliance model across all of the Company’s debt (the ABS warehouse facility, construction loans, and bridge loans), including DSCR, debt yield, leverage, liquidity, net worth, concentration, and reserve requirements exactly as each loan agreement defines them. Calculate compliance every reporting period, forecast headroom forward, and flag any risk of a breach early with options and their impact. Track every non-financial debt requirement as well: reserve deposits and replenishments, insurance and tax escrows, controlled account requirements, required notices, and maturity and extension conditions. Prepare compliance certificates for SVP signature.
• Lender Reporting: Maintain a single reporting calendar of every monthly, quarterly, and annual deliverable owed to every lender and deliver each one complete, accurate, and on time. For the ABS warehouse facility, this includes the monthly reporting package, borrowing base and collateral reporting, property level operating reports, compliance certificates, and periodic financial statements. Serve as the day to day contact for lenders, servicers, and Company counsel on reporting and compliance questions, and support lender diligence requests.
• Equity Partner & Investor Reporting: Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reporting to equity partners as each partnership agreement requires, tied out to the books before it goes out. Maintain capital account rollforwards by fund, entity, and partner; prepare capital call, distribution, reimbursement, and funding request calculations for SVP approval; and answer partner questions with reconciled support.
• Audit: Own the annual financial statement audits with the Company’s outside auditor (PBC lists, schedules, third-party team support, partner review of drafts) and deliver final reports in time to meet lender and partner deadlines.
• Management Reporting & Budgets: Prepare the monthly management reporting package, the annual corporate and property budgets (with the property managers), and monthly budget vs. actual by department and entity. Own the project cost reporting dashboards and reconcile job cost to the cost to complete (CTC) reports maintained by Development.

Core Focus 2: Accounting

• Monthly Close: Own a published close calendar built backward from lender and partner reporting deadlines and run a parallel close: the Company controlled close first, then the property manager layer, then lender and partner reporting. Review the close package for every entity (trial balances, prepaid schedules, cash, intercompany, payables, job cost to P&L, WIP and fixed asset rollforwards, budget vs. actual, bank reconciliations) and close the period.
• Debt & Warehouse Facility Accounting: Account correctly for every loan, including advances, repayments, interest, fees, reserves, hedging, and controlled account activity across the warehouse facility’s borrower, pledgor, and property entities, and reconcile each loan to lender statements every month.
• Fund, Joint Venture & Capital Accounting: Account for contributions, distributions, preferred returns, and waterfalls under each partnership agreement, keep capital accounts reconciled to the books, and maintain the entity register, chart of accounts, cost code dictionary, and entity to bank account, lender, and partner mapping.
• Property Taxes: Own property taxes across the portfolio: monthly accruals by entity, assessment notices, valuation reviews and appeals with outside consultants, bill tracking and timely payment, and escrow and reserve reconciliation with lenders.
• Intercompany & Reconciliations: Maintain a monthly due to / due from schedule by entity, apply standardized allocation rules, and validate bank reconciliations for every account each month.
• Property Manager & Project Accounting: Review third-party property manager financials and the entries that bring them into the books; own the accounting side of the monthly construction draw cycle and lien waiver tracking; and book acquisitions, loan closings, and dispositions.
• Tax & 1099s: Coordinate partnership returns, K-1s, 1099 filing, and entity filings with the Company’s outside tax advisors.

Supporting Accountabilities

• Third-Party Accounting Team Management: Manage the outsourced accounting team that processes payables, posts entries, prepares bank reconciliations and wires, and assembles the close package: run the weekly check in, assign and review work, hold the team to deadlines and quality, and make the accounting judgment calls the team cannot make.
• Payables, Cash & Controls: Own payables coding and structured approval batches, daily cash review across all accounts, wire verification, a weekly 13 week cash forecast by entity, the approval matrix, close checklist, and accounting SOPs.
• Technology: Operate and improve the Company’s AI driven accounting workflows (invoice and credit card coding, data normalization, variance commentary), keeping AI as the processor and human review as the control.

Location & Working Format

• Remote position; Corporate Headquarters in Tampa, FL
• Regular early morning overlap with the offshore third-party accounting team for the weekly check in and time sensitive items such as wires, draws, and lender deadlines

Qualifications / Skills & Abilities

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting required; Master’s in Accounting or MBA preferred
• A minimum of 6+ years of accounting and financial reporting experience, including public accounting / audit and at least 3 years in real estate accounting (development, fund, or JV)
• Direct experience with lender reporting and debt compliance, including managing financial covenants (DSCR, debt yield, leverage, liquidity, and reserve requirements) across multiple loans
• Warehouse, credit facility, or securitization accounting and reporting experience, including borrowing base and compliance reporting under strict monthly deadlines
• Equity partner and investor reporting experience, including capital accounts, capital calls, distributions, and waterfalls
• Experience running a multi-entity monthly close and the annual audit; strong working knowledge of GAAP, partnership tax, K-1s, and 1099 compliance
• Property tax experience across a multi-state real estate portfolio, including accruals, escrows, assessments, and appeals
• Experience managing an outsourced or offshore accounting team, assigning work, reviewing it, and holding it to deadlines and quality
• Construction draw and lien waiver experience
• Strong internal controls mindset, including approval matrices, segregation of duties, and cash and wire controls
• Experience with a real estate accounting system (Yardi strongly preferred); advanced Excel; Power BI or similar reporting tools a plus
• Embraces technology and is comfortable working within, and improving, AI systems and AI driven accounting processes
• Single-family, Build for Rent, or residential development experience a plus

Who Thrives Here

• Extremely meticulous; catches the error before the reviewer, the lender, or the partner does
• Deadline driven; treats lender reporting dates and covenant tests as non-negotiable
• Owner mindset: brings the reviewer finished work and solutions, not open questions
• Self directed and effective in a remote role without daily supervision
• Comfortable in a flat, high accountability organization where everyone wears multiple hats

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

• Kiyora Communities is an equal opportunity employer.