Property Accountant

NAI UCR Properties; Flowood (MS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan with match

Paid time off

Defined leadership seat access

Job summary

NAI UCR Properties in Flowood, MS is hiring a Property Accountant to own property-level accounting and lease administration for about 45 properties and 200 tenants. You will be the approver of record for numbers used by managers and owners.

You’ll work with the outsourced team in Yardi, automate repetitive tasks, and build dashboards that provide real-time visibility into AR, cash, and close status. Collaboration with management and construction teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance with accounting experience
• 2+ years accounting experience; commercial real estate or property accounting strongly preferred
• Solid grasp of accrual accounting and full month-end close
• Experience with Yardi strongly preferred; MRI, AppFolio, or similar systems also helpful
• Strong Excel skills; dashboard/reporting/workflow automation interest a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the property-level numbers and ensure accuracy for monthly close
• Review and approve monthly financial packages and variance commentary
• Manage close calendar for portfolio ensuring timely month-, quarter-, year-end closes
• Prepare and post non-routine journal entries and clear GL exceptions
• Review bank reconciliations and cash reports; maintain depreciation, amortization and asset schedules
• Oversee AP processes: approve vendor setups and PO workflow in Yardi PayScan
• Oversee AR, lease administration, and tenant billing: approve billing and CAM/tax reconciliations
• Lead accounting setup for new properties; support budgets and reforecasts with management
• Develop dashboards and automate recurring tasks; collaborate with outsourced team
• Document procedures and controls for scalability

Skills

Accounting

Excel skills

Communication

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Yardi

MRI

AppFolio

Job description

NAI UCR Properties | Flowood, MS | Full-time, in office

Reports to: CFO/COO

Seat: Property & Project Accounting

Works closely with: Property Management, Construction Management, and our outsourced accounting team

About NAI UCR Properties

NAI UCR Properties is a vertically integrated commercial real estate firm based in Flowood, Mississippi. Brokerage, property management, asset management, construction management, and facilities management all live under one roof, with roughly 1.5 million square feet under management and about $100 million in assets under management across industrial, office, and retail properties.

We are a team of about 16 people and growing. We run on EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, which means every seat has clear accountabilities, every team tracks a few numbers that matter, and we meet weekly to solve problems instead of letting them linger. Our core values are simple and we actually use them: Credibility Through Conduct, Roadblock Removers, Collective Success Focused, and Progress, Not Just Properties.

We are also a technology-focused, AI-forward company, and we invest heavily in systems and software. We use Claude, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and Yardi every day, along with modern workflow automation and reporting platforms, and we expect every seat to keep pushing recurring, mundane work into automation so people can spend their time on higher-value problems. If you like building a dashboard more than reading a report, you will fit in here.

About the role

We are hiring a Property Accountant to own property-level accounting and lease administration for a portfolio of roughly 45 commercial properties and 200 tenants across Mississippi. This is a real seat with real authority. You will be the approver of record for property-level accounting activity, the internal owner of the numbers our property managers and owners rely on, and the day-to-day point of contact for our outsourced accounting team, which handles transactional processing in Yardi.

You will not spend your days keying invoices. Our outsourced team does that. Your job is to make sure the work is right, the tenants and owners are billed correctly, the books close clean every month, problems get run down before they become issues, and the repetitive parts of the job get automated rather than repeated. You will work directly with property managers, construction managers, and the CFO/COO, and you will have a front-row view of how a commercial real estate company actually operates.

What you will do

Own the property-level numbers

• Review and approve the monthly financial packages our outsourced team prepares before they go to owners and investors, and own the variance commentary that goes with them
• Own the close calendar for your portfolio and make sure month-end, quarter-end, and year-end land on time
• Prepare and post non-routine journal entries, including reclasses, accruals, prepaid rent, and corrections, and clear general ledger exceptions
• Review monthly bank reconciliations and cash reports and sign off on them
• Maintain supporting schedules for depreciation, amortization, fixed assets, security deposits, and loan activity

Accounts payable and vendor support

• Approve the weekly AP run and purchase orders in Yardi PayScan for assigned properties
• Approve new vendor setups and any change to an existing vendor's remittance or banking details
• Resolve coding questions, invoice disputes, and vendor correspondence alongside Property Management

Accounts receivable, lease administration, and tenant billing

• Approve monthly late fee batches and tenant billing adjustments, and review AR aging with property managers each week
• Originate lease abstracts and approve lease setups, amendments, escalations, renewals, and move-outs before they are entered in Yardi
• Review and approve annual CAM, tax, and insurance reconciliations and recovery billings, work through tenant questions and disputes with Property Management, and clear the prior-year reconciliation backlog
• Own tenant statements and billing correspondence so tenants hear from NAI UCR Properties, not a third party
• Approve security deposit refunds and related accounting

Growth and projects

• Lead the accounting setup for new management assignments: chart of accounts, entity and property setup in Yardi, lease abstraction, and tenant onboarding
• Support construction and tenant improvement projects with purchase orders, change orders, draw requests, and project cost tracking alongside Construction Management
• Support annual property budgets and reforecasts with property managers and the CFO/COO
• Review monthly fee calculations, including management, asset management, and construction management fees
• Assist with year-end audit and tax preparation and respond to lender and owner reporting requests
• Take on special projects from the CFO/COO

Automate and innovate

• Maintain dashboards and automated reports that give property managers, owners, and leadership real-time visibility into AR, cash, budget variance, and close status
• Use AI and workflow automation tools to take recurring work off your plate and the outsourced team's: variance commentary drafts, approval routing, exception flagging, reconciliation checks, and reporting distribution
• Look at every recurring task and ask whether it should be automated, eliminated, or moved to the outsourced team, then make it happen

Manage the outsourced team

• Serve as the day-to-day contact for our outsourced accounting team: set priorities, track turnaround, and hold them to the scope of work
• Document property-level accounting procedures and controls so they scale as the portfolio grows

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, or in Finance with relevant accounting experience
• 2 or more years of accounting experience; commercial real estate or property accounting strongly preferred
• Solid grasp of accrual accounting and the full month-end close
• Working knowledge of commercial leases, CAM and recovery billing, and standard lease structures (NNN, modified gross, full service)
• Experience with Yardi strongly preferred; MRI, AppFolio, or similar property accounting systems also helpful
• Strong Excel skills; experience with dashboard, reporting, or workflow automation tools is a plus, and curiosity about using AI in day-to-day work is expected
• A builder's mindset: you would rather spend a day automating a task than spend an hour on it every month
• Comfortable being the approver: you check the work and ask the second question
• Clear communicator, written and verbal, since you will be working with property managers, vendors, tenants, owners, and an outsourced team every day
• Organized and steady under multiple deadlines, and someone who owns their work

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Health insurance, retirement plan with match, paid time off, and other benefits
• A defined seat with real authority and direct access to leadership
• Exposure to every side of commercial real estate: brokerage, property operations, construction, and investment
• A collaborative, values-driven team where your work is visible and your input matters
• Flowood, MS office, Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00