Corporate Controller

Alliance Resource Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Resource Group seeks a senior corporate accounting leader in Irvine to support corporate operations and oversee 7-9 staff responsible for accounting, payroll, tax and administration. You will guide monthly journal entries, GL integrity, and reconciliations while partnering with property leaders on reporting efficiencies.

CPA and 12+ years in corporate/public accounting are preferred, with experience in Real Estate or Investment Management highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent required.
• 12–15 years of corporate accounting and public accounting experience.
• 6+ years in accounting management.
• CPA certification required or active.
• Real Estate/Professional Services/Investment Management experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Accounting Manager and oversee monthly journal entries and postings to GL.
• Review general ledger accounts for propriety; investigate anomalies and prepare correcting entries.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and address discrepancies.
• Analyze financial statements for completeness and accuracy; advise management on reserves and accruals.
• Collaborate with property and development leaders on reporting efficiencies using Yardi.
• Oversee company-wide payroll and benefits administration.
• Assist in annual financial audit and tax compliance with external auditors.

Skills

Financial analysis

Leadership

GAAP knowledge

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

CPA

Tools

Yardi

Job description

Our OC Real Estate client is a specialist in land acquisition, entitlement, development, and management. The portfolio is growing 30-40% over the next two years so they are expanding their leadership team in multiple functional areas! This role will support the Corporate operations and oversee 7-9 staff responsible for corporate accounting, payroll, tax and administration!

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Oversees Accounting Manager responsible for preparation and posting of monthly standard and adjusting journal entries. Prepares journal entries to record financial transactions to the general ledger such as, cash transaction accruals, prepaid amortization, service contract accruals, allocations, and intercompany activities.
• Review assigned general ledger accounts for propriety and reasonableness, investigate questionable transactions, form reasonable conclusions, make recommendations to leadership and prepare correcting journal entries as appropriate.
• Reviews monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts. Identifies, researches, and corrects account discrepancies.
• Examine a variety of financial statements and documents for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with accounting requirements. Performs moderately complex analyses and makes recommendations to management regarding appropriateness of retail reserves and accruals.
• Collaborates with property level and development leaders on best practices and reporting efficiencies in Yardi.
• Oversee company-wide payroll and benefit administration
• Assists in annual financial audit and tax compliance with external auditor

EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 12-15 years of related corporate accounting and public accounting foundation / experience required.
• 6+ years in accounting management
• CPA
• Real Estate, Professional Services or Investment Management industry strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel – including ability to develop analyses using Pivot Tables, V-Lookups and other Excel tools required.