Corporate Accountant

Our SelectLeaders team is partnering with a well-established client looking for a Corporate Accountant to support their growing team. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on corporate accounting, month-end close, and payroll processing, along with an opportunity to help drive a company-wide transition to new accounting systems.

You’ll work closely with the CFO and internal teams, getting into the details each month to reconcile accounts, solve issues, analyze data, and keep the accounting function running accurately and efficiently. This is a role for someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, finding the answer, and making things work.

Beyond the day-to-day accounting, this person will play an important role in ERP implementation, process improvement, and change management, helping the organization adopt new systems and ways of working.

What you'll do

Corporate Accounting & Month-End Close

• Own and support month-end close activities across multiple entities

• Prepare and post monthly journal entries, accruals, and adjustments

• Perform detailed balance sheet, bank, and intercompany reconciliations

• Analyze account activity and investigate and resolve variances

• Prepare management, development, and construction fee invoices

• Prepare reimbursable expense invoices and supporting schedules

• Provide financial analysis and support special projects as needed

• Work directly in the accounting details and systems throughout the monthly close process

Payroll & Benefits

• Process payroll and maintain accurate payroll-related accounting

• Prepare payroll journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and related invoices

• Analyze payroll and benefits accounts and resolve discrepancies

• Partner with HR on payroll, benefits, and accounting-related matters

• Ensure payroll activity is accurately reflected in the general ledger

• Serve as a key point of contact for payroll-related accounting questions

Accounts Payable & Cash Management

• Review corporate A/P coding and ensure expenses are properly classified

• Partner with Accounts Payable on coding, reconciliations, and issue resolution

• Manage corporate cash activity and prepare bank reconciliations

• Administer corporate credit card and expense reporting processes

ERP Implementation, Systems & Change Management

• Participate in the implementation of new ERP and accounting software systems across the company

• Help translate existing accounting processes into new systems and workflows

• Test system functionality, identify issues, and support troubleshooting

• Assist with data validation, system configuration, reporting, and process documentation

• Help train and support employees through system and process changes

• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls, and reporting

• Serve as a hands-on resource during system implementation and ongoing optimization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

• 5+ years of corporate/general ledger accounting experience

• Strong experience with payroll processing and payroll accounting

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, financial analysis, and large data sets

• Experience participating in an ERP, accounting software, or company-wide system implementation

• Strong understanding of change management and the ability to help teams adapt to new systems and processes

• Experience with month-end close, reconciliations, journal entries, and intercompany accounting

• Real estate industry experience preferred

• Experience with MRI, Yardi, or similar accounting platforms is a plus

• Experience with Concur or similar expense management systems is a plus

• CPA or progress toward CPA is a plus

• Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with employees across the organization