Associate - Investor Financial Reporting

The Amherst Group's companies are comprised of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed. Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors. Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team. In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending. Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.
- Design, implement, and manage the process for accounting of property cost, including expense accrual, amortization, property tax liability, and related balance sheet reconciliations.
- Oversee the day-to-day work of an offshore accounting team. Provide guidance and review their work related to the property tax payment, insurance billing, accrual entries, and reconciliations.
- Identify opportunities and implement processes to centralize, eliminate, automate or outsource activities. Work with service providers to outsource established processes and manage ongoing activities.
- Responsible for a specific fund’s reporting, including preparing monthly financial statements, lender’s reports, compliance reports, and addressing financial implications to the management team and investors.
- Analyze financial information for discrepancies and summarize financial status. Work through accounting implications and provide accounting guidance to operations, portfolio management, and other cross-functional teams.
- Conduct monthly account reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.
- Partner with internal and external auditors to review processes, implement controls, and ensure compliance.
- Document policies, procedures, and workflow for assigned areas of responsibility.
- Contribute to department and organization special projects as assigned.

Required Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required. 3+ years of accounting experience.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and have established skills in accuracy, organization, and working in a high-volume environment.
- Demonstrated ability to support all other departments within the company and coordinate training and information sessions.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite of products, particularly with Excel. A mix of Public and Private Experience is preferred.
- CPA preferred. Proficiency with Yardi Voyager preferred. Experience in Real Estate, preferably rental property preferred.
- Executional excellence: You have the organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, high sense of responsibility, and general skillset to take on a wide range of high-priority projects. You are dependable and always deliver quality work.
- A Creative Problem Solver: You have a propensity to think strategically, logically and outside the box to solve problems for the business and customer.
- Resilient: You are open to objective feedback and view mistakes as a learning mechanism Hard Working: You aren’t afraid of a tough deadline.
- Meticulous: You are highly structured, disciplined and take pride in your work, setting and executing on timely project deliverables with the roadmap to get there.
- Knowledgeable: You understand and leverage best of breed software to help manage the end
- to-end process efficiently.

Working Shift/ arrangement: US Shift 6:30 PM - 03:30 AM IST from the office to ensure efficient collaboration

Our full-time employee benefits include:
- A competitive compensation package, annual bonus, 401k match- Flexible PTO including 7 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, and 1 volunteer day- Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, health savings account)- Professional career development and reimbursement- Up to 16 weeks paid maternity leave; up to 4 weeks of paid parental leave- Backup childcare offered through Bright Horizons

Amherst is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to