Sr. Staff Accountant

Korn Ferry; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is assisting a top residential real estate brokerage in Alpharetta, GA with a Senior Staff Accountant opening. The role focuses on month-end close, reconciliations, and automation of routine close activities using AI tools to improve efficiency across finance and marketing spend.

You will partner with the Marketing and broader finance teams to ensure accurate financial reporting, support media accruals, and drive process improvements in a fast-growing real estate environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar.
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience with month-end close ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP.
• Proficiency with QuickBooks and advanced Excel.
• Experience using AI tools for accounting or analytics is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ramp or Paylocity a plus.
• Real estate, brokerage, or title industry experience is a plus.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-finance partners (Marketing).

Responsibilities

• Month-End Close: manage close tasks, journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Partner with Marketing to book media accruals across digital, brand, and lead-gen channels.
• Prepare monthly reconciliations for balance sheet accounts and resolve items.
• Perform monthly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis; document drivers.
• Use AI tools to automate recurring close activities and identify new opportunities.
• Prepare and post recurring and non-recurring journal entries with documentation.
• Support intercompany transactions and eliminations.
• Review AP invoices and Ramp transactions for GL accuracy.
• Prepare PBC schedules and respond to auditor requests.
• Maintain and update close process documentation.
• Support ad hoc analyses and process improvements.

Skills

Attention to detail

Multi-deadline management

Communication

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA or CPA candidate preferred

Tools

QuickBooks

Excel

AI tools (ChatGPT/Claude)

Ramp

Paylocity

Job description

Our client is a top rated residential real estate brokerage in the US, helping families buy and sell their homes. The brokerage serves thousands of families each year and closes billions of dollars of real estate transactions annually by offering homeowners several home selling programs, including getting the best possible Guaranteed Offer for qualified clients. Our client is poised to more than double the volume of homes sold annually by leveraging technology to better serve clients and pursuing geographical expansion to serve even more families.

Position Overview:

The Senior Staff Accountant supports the month-end close, owns key reconciliations and journal entries, and drives automation of routine close activities using AI tools. This role partners across the business to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, with additional focus with the Marketing team to support media accruals for the company’s wide-ranging investments in D2C advertising. The Senior Staff Accountant reports to the Accounting Manager and works closely with the broader finance team supporting the company’s brokerage and title businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

• Month-End Close: Executes assigned close tasks against the close calendar, including journal entry preparation, accrual booking, and subledger tie-outs. Identifies opportunities to compress the close timeline.
• Media & Marketing Accruals: Partners directly with the Marketing team each month to gather spend data, validate vendor invoices against committed campaigns, and book accurate media accruals across digital, brand, and lead-gen channels.
• Account Reconciliations: Prepares monthly reconciliations for assigned balance sheet accounts, including bank, prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, fixed assets, and intercompany. Researches and resolves reconciling items.
• Flux Analysis: Performs monthly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis against budget, prior month, and prior year. Documents drivers and escalates unusual variances to the Accounting Manager and CFO.
• AI-Enabled Automation: Uses AI tools (primarily Gemini) to automate recurring close activities — reconciliation preparation, variance commentary drafting, journal entry templating, and supporting documentation. Identifies new automation opportunities across the close.
• Journal Entries: Prepares and posts recurring and non-recurring journal entries, including accruals, prepaid amortization, allocations, capital asset entries, and reclassifications. Maintains supporting documentation.
• Intercompany &Subsidiary Accounting: Supports accounting for Evergreen Settlement Services and Nine Street Insurance, including intercompany transactions and eliminations.
• AP& Expense Support: Reviews coding on AP invoices and Ramp credit card transactions to ensure accurate GL classification.
• Audit Support: Prepares assigned PBC schedules and reconciliations for external audit and responds to auditor requests.
• Process Documentation: Maintains written procedures for assigned close tasks and reconciliations. Updates documentation as processes change.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Supports special projects, including operational analyses, system implementations, and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally including month-end close ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP.
• Proficiency with accounting systems(QuickBooks experience preferred) and advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas).
• Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) for accounting or analytical work strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ramp, Paylocity, or similar systems a plus.
• Real estate, brokerage, or title industry experience a plus.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain accounting topics to non-finance partners (particularly Marketing).