If you love making people feel at home, youâ™ll love working at Willow Bridge Property Company. Whether youâ™re just starting your career or joining later in your journey, weâ™re eager to help you find your perfect fit. Willow Bridge is a full-service residential property company with deep roots in the industry. Since our early days as Lincoln Property Company, we set the standard of excellence for multifamily operators and developers. Active in more than 75 markets in the U.S., Willow Bridge oversees over 180,000 apartment units and has $3B in owned assets under management.

Willow Bridge is currently hiring for an experienced Accounting Manager to oversee daily oversight, review, and training of team members as well as handling the accounting and financial reporting for a portfolio of assets. We are looking for an entrepreneurial-minded person who enjoys building relationships with their team and with customers. Does that sound like you? Become part of the Willow Bridge family and grow your career path today.

The Accounting Manager is responsible for daily oversight, review and training of team members as well as handling the accounting and financial reporting for a portfolio of assets. Other essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

Management/Leadership

• Assist in any scheduling or reorganization of staffing loads
• Interview and evaluate prospective candidates for accountant and accounting assistant roles
• Ensure positive pay exceptions are cleared by accountants daily

Assigned Team Oversight

• Training and supervision of accountants & accounting assistants
• Ensuring adherence to WBPC and client policies and procedures
• Review of financial packages ensuring thorough, timely, accurate reporting
• Review of cash flows, distributions and contribution requests
• Review bank reconciliations for accuracy, completeness and ensure stale reconciling items cleared
• Ensure critical payments are processed timely and accurately by team members
• Oversight of responses to client requests and review questions

Monthly

• Preparation of the financial package, including general ledger review, bank reconciliations and balance sheet support schedules for assigned assets
• Manage assigned assetâ™s cash and coordinate distributions and/or contribution requests as required.
• Ensure timely payment of approved invoices mortgages, real estate taxes & other critical payments
• Review of all management fee calculations for portfolios are completed and processed
• Oversee Inter-Project Account (IPA) reimbursements to ensure they are paid timely
• Timely response to client requests and questions

Annual

• Annual coordination and oversight of the 1099 process
• Resource to Business Managers and Regional Managers in budget season including loading budget templates and answering questions as needed
• Ensure approved annual budgets are properly input into accounting systems
• Ensure audit requests are completed and submitted timely for assigned team memberâ™s portfolio
• Review of CAM escalations, real estate tax escalations and other recovery calculations for mixed use properties in assigned or teams assigned portfolio

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university. Minimum of five years of related experience and/or training preferred.
  In lieu of a BA/BS degree, must have six or more years related experience.
  

Certificates and/or Licenses

• None. CPA is a plus.

Communication Skills

• Ability to write, comprehend, analyze, and interpret various types of business documents. Ability to effectively respond verbally or written to complex inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to present information to an internal group of employees.
• Requires a high level of commitment to customer service, whether co-workers or clients.

Other Skills and/or Abilities

• Demonstrate ability to work well under pressure with a proactive approach to unusual occurrences.
• Requires excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and an openness to new ideas and procedures.
• Ability to analyze, plan and distribute portfolio loads to ensure teamâ™s success in meeting deliverables.
• Experience with MS Office software (Excel) and Real Estate accounting software (Yardi).

Benefits

Willow Bridge Property Company offers competitive pay, a benefits package that includes health, dental, vision and 401(k) and opportunities for career development and advancement.