Real Estate FaaS Finance Manager

RSM US LLP; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

RSM is seeking a Manager for Real Estate Finance as a Service (FaaS) to lead accounting and finance engagements for private, middle-market clients in a shared services model. You will supervise teams, manage month-end close, financial reporting, budgets, and forecasting while leveraging our cloud-based technology stack.

You will interact with client executives (CEO, CFO, VP Finance) and drive process improvements, design engagement budgets, and oversee billing in a dynamic, deadline-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• CPA is required or in-process.
• Experience performing and reviewing property-level accounting and finance functions required.
• Experience working with property managers to resolve accounting issues, address concerns, and explain variances required.
• Expertise in Real Estate technology systems is required (i.e., Yardi, MRI, etc.)
• Progressive experience in accounting and financial management in a real estate accounting environment, in roles such as accounting manager, assistant controller, controller, director of finance, CFO
• Experience in real estate development projects and construction accounting processes and best practices, including job costing and draw package submissions
• Strong technical financial accounting knowledge (GAAP, NCREIF, FMV)
• Strong management accounting and operational finance knowledge
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of an organization
• Experience in FP&A (financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting)

Responsibilities

• Overall day-to-day management of the accounting and finance functions of multiple clients in a shared services environment playing the Controller role of your clients.
• Work in client technology environments as well as within the FaaS tech stack.
• Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with FaaS best practices.
• Lead, manage and coach client services representatives, associates, senior associates and supervisors.
• Review client's monthly financial statements including month-over-month variance analysis and budget-vs-actual analysis.
• Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support.
• Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients' monthly operations and make suggestions for process improvements.
• Understand our technology stack and identify additional add-on processes, systems, modules and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.
• Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects.
• Establish engagement budgets and take accountability over engagement economics
• Direct initial assessments, implementations and onboarding of new FaaS clients
• Write service agreements and statements of work
• Participate in meetings with new client prospects and in the proposal process
• Oversee and manage the billings and collections of client services invoices

Skills

Team management

Leadership

Communication

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Technology awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA in-process

Tools

Yardi

MRI

Blackline

FloQast

Basis

Job description

RSM is seeking a Manager for Real Estate Finance as a Service (FaaS) to lead accounting and finance engagements for private, middle-market clients in a shared services model. You will supervise teams, manage month-end close, financial reporting, budgets, and forecasting while leveraging our cloud-based technology stack.

You will interact with client executives (CEO, CFO, VP Finance) and drive process improvements, design engagement budgets, and oversee billing in a dynamic, deadline-driven