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Job Overview:

As a Senior Manager of Client Accounting, you’ll be responsible for overseeing our downtown Chicago Client Accounting department; ensuring the accuracy of monthly financials, overseeing department processes and procedures, resolving problems, and conducting special projects and analyses. This is a hands-on role responsible for general ledger and financial reporting functions, including but not limited to, month-end close, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and financial statement production.

This is a hybrid opportunity based out of our downtown corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. Occasional travel to our suburban corporate office in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, may be required.

Your Responsibilities:

• Oversee the production of the financial records of the Associations for FirstService Residential.

• Supervise a hybrid team of accounting professionals; motivate team members, set expectations, measure results, and provide timely feedback. Provide coaching and training to direct reports.

• Define and enforce key controls over financial statements and financial operations

• Oversee the operations of the corporate accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives

• Produce financial reporting in accordance with company timelines and policies

• Supervise and approve key monthly accounting activities such as financial statement production, revenue recognition and journal entry preparation

• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedures, including but not limited to, monthly close accountabilities, balance sheet account reconciliations, and financial controls

• Enforce monthly close accountabilities and procedures, and maintaining appropriate checklists to ensure departmental compliance. Implement new company procedures and policy changes as needed

• Complete balance sheet account reconciliations on a pre-established calendar schedule and in accordance with company policies

• Oversee the department's execution of detailed financial controls; enforcing processes and controls to ensure transactions are processed timely and accurately

• Execute recurring financial reporting, commentary and analysis

• Manage recurring diagnostics and variance reporting

• Prepare necessary narrative summaries and related presentations for company and department leadership

• Identify and execute opportunities to re-engineer and improve accounting and financial reporting processes

• Provide ad hoc analyses and accounting/financial support to business segment management teams in support of financial and operational objectives

  Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting or equivalent education.

• 8 to 10 years’ progressive experience as an assistant controller or accounting manager and 5 years’ experience supervising teams, or equivalent experience.

• Works effectively with coworkers, clients, customers, and others by sharing ideas in a constructive and positive manner; addresses problems and issues constructively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions.

• GAAP or fund accounting experience required. Experience with Yardi, JenArk, or Tops software strongly preferred.

• Must possess a growth mindset and an ability to multi-task/prioritize different projects at any given time.

• Superior oral and written communication skills.

  What We Offer:

  As a full-time associate, you will be eligible for full comprehensive benefits including your choice of multiple medical plans, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance. You will also be eligible for company-paid life insurance and benefits from our employee assistance program. In addition, you will be eligible for paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k) with company match.

  Compensation

  $ 105000 - $ 115000 / year

  Disclaimer Statement

  The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. This is not an all-inclusive job description; therefore, management has the right to assign or reassign schedules, duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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