VP, General Ledger Accounting

FirstService Residential; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstService Residential seeks a Vice President, General Ledger Accounting to lead the GL function across an assigned portfolio of markets and regions. You will oversee monthly close, financial statement preparation, and client deliverables, driving accuracy, consistency, and strong controls.

The role reports to the SVP, Client Accounting and requires strategic direction, performance management, and collaboration with market leaders and Shared Services to support client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive ownership of the monthly close and financial statement reporting cycle for all communities within the assigned portfolio, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.
• Establish the portfolio’s operating rhythm, reporting timetables, quality standards, review protocols, escalation paths and delivery-tracking requirements for monthly financial statements.
• Ensure the integrity of general ledger activity, including account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expenses and amortization, fixed assets, interfund and reserve activity, cost recovery billings and other client deliverables.
• Serve as the senior escalation authority for complex accounting matters, financial statement exceptions, late or at-risk deliverables and significant client or operational issues within the assigned portfolio.
• Oversee GL support for annual client audits and budgets, special assessments, loans, mortgages and other significant client financial obligations.
• Establish and monitor service level and key performance indicators for financial statement delivery.
• Drive leadership accountability for results against service-level and key performance indicators, reviewing performance regularly and leading corrective action plans where targets are missed.
• Build the leadership capability, succession plans, organizational structure and workforce capacity required to support client growth, retention and changing business needs.
• Attract, develop and retain high-caliber leaders and accounting professionals while promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, trust and service excellence.

Job description

Job Overview

The Vice President, General Ledger Accounting will lead the General Ledger Accounting function for an assigned portfolio of markets and regions. The Vice President is accountable for the overall performance of the GL teams that prepare, review and deliver monthly financial statements and related client deliverables for the communities supported within that portfolio.

Description

Job Overview

The Vice President, General Ledger Accounting will lead the General Ledger Accounting function for an assigned portfolio of markets and regions. The Vice President is accountable for the overall performance of the GL teams that prepare, review and deliver monthly financial statements and related client deliverables for the communities supported within that portfolio.

Reporting to the SVP, Client Accounting, the Vice President will establish the strategic direction, operating priorities and performance expectations for the assigned GL organization. The role will work closely with market and regional leaders, Financial Management leadership and Client Accounting Shared Services partners to ensure financial statements are accurate, timely and supported by consistent processes, strong controls, effective issue escalation and disciplined performance management.

The Vice President will lead transformation and standardization across the assigned portfolio while ensuring the operating model remains responsive to local market needs, management agreements, governing documents and client expectations. The ideal candidate is a strategic, technically strong and service-oriented leader who can develop leaders, create accountability, resolve complex reporting issues and improve the quality, consistency and efficiency of financial statement delivery.

Due to the global nature of this position, the Vice President should be comfortable working across multiple time zones (Pacific Standard Time to Eastern Standard Time), within reason.

Your Responsibilities

General Ledger Accounting

• Provide executive ownership of the monthly close and financial statement reporting cycle for all communities within the assigned portfolio, ensuring accurate and timely delivery in accordance with internal policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, management agreements, property governing documents and client expectations.
• Establish the portfolio’s operating rhythm, reporting timetables, quality standards, review protocols, escalation paths and delivery-tracking requirements for monthly financial statements.
• Ensure the integrity of general ledger activity, including account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expenses and amortization, fixed assets, interfund and reserve activity, cost recovery billings and other client deliverables.
• Serve as the senior escalation authority for complex accounting matters, financial statement exceptions, late or at-risk deliverables and significant client or operational issues within the assigned portfolio.
• Oversee GL support for annual client audits and budgets, special assessments, loans, mortgages and other significant client financial obligations.
• Establish and monitor service level and key performance indicators for financial statement delivery
• Drive leadership accountability for results against service-level and key performance indicators, reviewing performance regularly and leading corrective action plans where targets are missed.
• Build the leadership capability, succession plans, organizational structure and workforce capacity required to support client growth, retention and changing business needs.
• Attract, develop and retain high-caliber leaders and accounting professionals while promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, trust and service excellence.

Business Partner

• Serve as the senior Client Accounting