Remote Controller

HireLATAM; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

HireLatam is recruiting a Remote Controller for a private real estate client with a US footprint. This high-visibility role oversees consolidated accounting, intercompany eliminations, and team leadership from a remote Latin America-based setup.

The Controller will manage CIP accounting, lender draw packages, equity tracking, and K-1 coordination, while ensuring GAAP compliance across multi-entity portfolios.

Qualifications

• Senior Real Estate Accounting Leadership: 5+ years in Controller/Accounting Manager roles over multi-entity portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Owns monthly consolidated financial statements across operating entities and GP/LP structures.

Education

CPA or CA designation

Tools

Yardi

Job description

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Location:

Remote from Latin America

Position Type:

Full-time

Schedule:

Monday – Friday, aligned with US Mountain Time / MT business hours

Job Overview

Our Client is a privately held real estate investment, development, and asset management enterprise headquartered in Edwards, Colorado. Operating across a diverse, multi-entity portfolio—spanning manufactured housing communities, extended-stay and RV operations, small multifamily, retail, commercial condos, self-storage, light industrial, and active ground-up construction—our client manages stabilized assets alongside active for-sale development projects. Built entirely within Yardi, the company operates through a complex web of operating subsidiaries, GP/LP partnership structures, equipment leases, and intercompany management fee networks. Our client provides a lean, high-ownership remote environment where executive accounting leadership directly safeguards financial integrity, debt compliance, and partner distributions.

The Role

Our Client is seeking a high-judgment, hands-on Remote Controller to serve as the senior financial officer for consolidated accounting operations. Reporting directly to the President, this team member will own the end-to-end consolidated reporting process, eliminate intercompany transactions, direct a team of two staff accountants, and maintain rigorous workpaper standards. The Controller will manage Construction-in-Progress (CIP) accounting, assemble lender draw packages, oversee GP/LP equity tracking and distribution waterfalls, direct CPA tax preparation (K-1s), and set up new entity accounting structures within Yardi.

Key Responsibilities

Consolidated Financial Reporting & Intercompany Reconciliations

• Owns and produces monthly consolidated financial statements across all operating companies, holding entities, and GP/LP partnerships.
• Manages proper eliminations for intercompany management fees, equipment lease income, intercompany loans, and intercompany AR/AP balances (ensuring no intercompany balance remains outstanding past 30 days without clear resolution).
• Inherits and maintains the detailed monthly entity-by-entity workpaper and notes tracker, capturing period-end adjusting entries, open items, and accounting policy resolutions.
• Reviews and approves journal entries, reclassifications, and period-end adjusting entries while evaluating proper capitalization versus expense treatments across active projects.

Construction, CIP & Development Accounting

• Manages Construction-in-Progress (CIP) accounting for active development projects, tracking costs by job and coordinating capitalization accuracy with the VP of Construction.
• Prepares and submits comprehensive lender draw packages, assembling supporting documentation and managing lender-specific submission timelines.
• Calculates, documents, and recognizes development fees charged to partnership entities while maintaining complete audit trails.
• Performs cost-to-complete versus budget variance analyses by project, proactively flagging potential cost overruns to the President.
• Maintains cap tables, equity tracking ledgers, and waterfall models across GP/LP partnership entities.
• Calculates and processes LP distributions, analyzing timing relative to projected partner tax liabilities, dispositions, and refinances.
• Manages investor return telemetry within Agora (or similar portals), posting tax documents, distribution notices, and return-of-capital statements.
• Serves as the primary contact for external CPA/tax advisors—coordinating K‑1 preparation, entity-level tax strategies, depreciation schedules (real property, equipment, leasehold improvements), and year-end planning.

Team Leadership & Entity Setup

• Directs, reviews, and mentors a remote accounting team of two staff accountants, establishing high standards of independent judgment and reviewing work product before final sign-off.
• Owns the month-end close checklist, maintaining authorization protocols for checks, wires, and ACH transactions.
• Sets up chart of accounts, entity structures, opening balances, and consolidation trees for new real estate entity acquisitions directly in Yardi.
• Maintains the comprehensive portfolio loan schedule, tracking principal balances, maturity dates, interest rates, debt covenants, and monthly debt service requirements.

Qualifications, Skills and Key Competencies

Required Qualifications

• Senior Real Estate Accounting Leadership: 5+ years of experience as a Controller, Accounting Manager, or Senior Real Estate Accountant overseeing multi-entity real estate portfolios.
• Yardi Software Mastery: Non-negotiable, expert-level proficiency in Yardi across multi-entity property management, accounting, and consolidated financial reporting modules.
• GAAP Real Estate Accounting: Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP as applied to commercial real estate—including CIP accounting, capitalization vs. expensing rules, depreciation schedules, and revenue recognition for for-sale residential units.
• GP/LP Partnership & Fund Accounting: Practical experience with partnership accounting, cap table tracking, LP distribution calculations, waterfall models, and CPA coordination for K‑1 issuances.
• Accounting Team Management: Proven track record supervising, reviewing, and elevating the output of staff accountants in a remote setting.
• Fluent English Communication: Native-level written and spoken English skills to collaborate directly with company leadership, external CPAs, lenders, and partners.
• Schedule Alignment: Full availability to work full-time standard business hours aligned with US Mountain Time (MT).
• Remote Workspace Infrastructure: High-performance personal workstation, HD webcam, noise-canceling headset, and enterprise-grade high-speed internet connection in a secure, quiet home office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA) designation.
• Hands-on experience preparing and submitting commercial construction draw packages to institutional lenders.
• Advanced experience with intercompany consolidation eliminations across multi-tier corporate trees.
• Experience utilizing investor relations portal platforms such as Agora, Juniper Square, or IMS.
• Background managing diversified real estate assets (manufactured housing, RV parks, self-storage, light industrial, multifamily, and commercial retail).