Remote HOA Accounting Supervisor & Financials Lead

FirstService Residential; Chattanooga, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision plans

Paid holidays

Job summary

FirstService Residential is seeking an experienced accounting leader to supervise a team responsible for the monthly financial statements for a portfolio of associations. The role emphasizes accuracy, timely delivery, and adherence to GAAP and internal policies.

You will mentor staff, coordinate with CPAs during audits, and provide ad-hoc financial reporting to support strategic decisions within a fully remote work setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting from an accredited college or university, minimum of five years of general ledger accounting experience.
• Critical thinking, complex problem solving, judgment and decision-making abilities.
• Strong organization, motivation, leadership, supervisory and interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented and strong organizational skills and multi-tasking skills.
• Must have a strong work ethic and be detail-oriented with excellent organizational and multitasking skills.
• Must have strong excel skills along with proficiency in Windows and Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the daily functions of the assigned team, confirm processes and procedures are followed, monitor and review financial statements and related work product to ensure departmental standards of quality are maintained.
• Ensure timeliness is a priority and deadlines are met. Communicate with your team, peers, leadership and the operations team to ensure client expectations are consistently met.
• Prioritize, track and review accountants’ work, and monitor quality control of all transactions performed by team members.
• Provide direction and assist in the investigation and resolution of internal and external problems and concerns. Ensure prior month outstanding open items have been resolved. Follow up and work on resolution of outstanding items within financial statements.
• Communicate timely the potential issues that may affect the accuracy of the financial statements.
• Provide on-going training to ensure all assigned employees are aware of and comply with company, government and customer regulations, policies, work procedures, instructions and deadlines.
• Track and communicate goals for individual and department performance. Complete annual and semi-annual evaluation process of assigned staff and perform regular meetings to provide coaching and developmental feedback for employees. Timely communicate and document actions needed or to be taken with your leadership such as progressive disciplinary action, promotions, transfers or terminations.
• Assist independent CPA audit firm in their audit and review of associations on a year-end, turnover, and/or periodic audit/review. Analyze and post end-of-year audit adjusting entries.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting as needed by researching and interpreting data to answer accounting and financial questions.

Skills

Supervisory experience

General ledger accounting

CPA certification

CAM license

Property management experience

Excel skills

Communication skills

Detail oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Windows

Microsoft Office

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

FirstService Residential is seeking an experienced accounting leader to supervise a team responsible for the monthly financial statements for a portfolio of associations. The role emphasizes accuracy, timely delivery, and adherence to GAAP and internal policies.

You will mentor staff, coordinate with CPAs during audits, and provide ad-hoc financial reporting to support strategic decisions within a fully remote work setup.