Staff Accountant - Trophy Signature Homes

Green Brick Partners; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the homebuilding industry seeks a Staff Accountant to manage their financial records and reporting processes. The role involves maintaining accuracy in accounting tasks during month-end close, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Candidates should hold an Accounting Degree and demonstrate strong analytical abilities and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic finance team in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• 1 year of public accounting experience preferred.
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• The role requires good written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Prepare monthly financial reports and journal entries.
• Support audits and maintain financial records.

Skills

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Organization

Communication

Education

Accounting Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

Position Purpose: The Staff Accountant must believe in, practice and initiate all Green Brick Partners values set forth in an acronym we call HOME. They must be Honest, Objective, Mature and Efficient in how he or she approaches their role at Green Brick Partners.

The Staff Accountant is responsible for preparing timely and accurate accounting records, including various journal entries and financial and operational reports. This position is also directly involved in the month end close process and the preparation of monthly financial statement reporting.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close
• Process and record lot takedown purchases
• Prepare monthly financial reports to help other departments find ways to achieve efficiencies and reduce un-needed spending
• Prepare journal entries of both a recurring and non-recurring nature
• Prepares monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Code, process, and analyze corporate credit cards
• Work with Accounts Payable team to review daily batches and ensure proper account coding and approval for capitalized and operating expenses
• Code overhead invoices and ensure invoices are properly approved
• Additional ad hoc projects from management as needed
• Review and post journal entries prepared by Senior Accountant and Accounts Payable
• Create new vendors and make vendor changes in Newstar
• Create bank wires for vendor payments, expense report payments, and lot purchases
• Contact vendors about converting from payment by check to payment by EFT, track progress, work with Accounts Payable to generate test EFT wires to newly-converted vendors. This is a new initiative and it is a big project.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests
• Assist with property tax database: entering statement amounts, lot closing dates, taxing authority
• Assist with 1099 prep
• Assist with system conversion to invoice automation

Supervision of Others: N/A

Authority/Budget/Decision Making/Discretion and Independent Judgment Ability: This position involves the level of duties as described above, or similar, but is not a position of supervisory or management level.

Physical Requirements: Ability to stand and walk for 4 hours straight or up to a full 8-hour day; sit for extended periods; kneel and bend at the waist; walk up and down stairs; walk on unlevel terrain; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision ability required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and peripheral vision.

Location: Trophy Signature Homes Corporate Office

Qualifications

Education:

• Accounting Degree Required

Experience:

• 1 year of public accounting experience
• Computer skills
• Microsoft Excel

Competencies:

• Ability to meet multiple deadlines (daily, weekly, and monthly)
• Highly analytical
• Critical thinking skills
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good organizational skills

Nothing in this position description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.