What are the responsibilities and job description for the Part Time Accounting Manager - Construction position at Arboreal Management?
Location: Remote or Hybrid (Seattle)
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer & Head of Development
Salary/Hours: $35/hour, 25 hours/week
Overview
We are a fast growing integrated real estate company in the affordable housing space seeking a highly capable Accounting Manager with direct experience in construction and real estate development accounting to support our growing platform.
This role owns accounting for:
Core Responsibilities
Construction Accounting (Primary Focus)
Candidates must have hands-on experience with:
We are a fully integrated real estate platform focused on the development, ownership, and management of multifamily housing across the Pacific Northwest.
Our platform includes:
to deliver below-market rents to residents while achieving above-market returns for investors.
Our model is built on vertical integration, operational discipline, and a commitment to long-term ownership. We combine local expertise with a modern, technology-enabled approach, including internally developed tools that support accounting, reporting, and operations.
We are growing quickly, with a large and expanding pipeline of development projects. As we scale, we are building a finance and accounting team that can support increasingly complex construction and development activity while maintaining accuracy, speed, and transparency.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performance team working across property management, construction, and development in a single, unified platform.
Arboreal is a drug-free workplace, and we use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer & Head of Development
Salary/Hours: $35/hour, 25 hours/week
Overview
We are a fast growing integrated real estate company in the affordable housing space seeking a highly capable Accounting Manager with direct experience in construction and real estate development accounting to support our growing platform.
This role owns accounting for:
- Arboreal Construction (job costing project accounting)
- Great Expectations (development entities and projects)
Core Responsibilities
Construction Accounting (Primary Focus)
- Role will be supported by the construction manager, who has ultimate responsibility of the project P&L
- Maintain job cost accounting across multiple active construction projects. Ensure cost properly tracked between project, cost codes and vendors
- Invoice creation, issuance to client, tracking payment of invoices
- Assembly of monthly draw package when the construction project has lender billings. Track retention, sales tax, etc
- Ensure accurate cost coding across jobs and cost categories
- Partner with construction/project manager to maintain real-time cost visibility
- Produce monthly job cost reports and variance analysis
- Role will be supported by head of development, who has ultimate responsibility for project P&L
- Prepare lender draw package, assembling invoices from consultants, updating budget billing sheet, gathering lien releases (when required)
- Maintain development entity books and support investor/lender reporting
- Ensure compliance with financing requirements and reporting timelines
Candidates must have hands-on experience with:
- Construction job costing systems (not just conceptual knowledge)
- Preparing lender draw packages for ground-up or major rehab projects
- Working across multiple entities and projects simultaneously
- Direct exposure to active development and construction projects
- Opportunity to work across management, construction, and development in one platform
- Build systems and processes in a fast-growing, mission-driven company
- Work closely with a high-caliber CFO and leadership team
We are a fully integrated real estate platform focused on the development, ownership, and management of multifamily housing across the Pacific Northwest.
Our platform includes:
- Arboreal Management – a property management company overseeing thousands of apartment homes
- Arboreal Construction – an in-house construction company delivering renovations and ground-up projects
- Great Expectations – a development and investment platform focused on expanding housing supply
to deliver below-market rents to residents while achieving above-market returns for investors.
Our model is built on vertical integration, operational discipline, and a commitment to long-term ownership. We combine local expertise with a modern, technology-enabled approach, including internally developed tools that support accounting, reporting, and operations.
We are growing quickly, with a large and expanding pipeline of development projects. As we scale, we are building a finance and accounting team that can support increasingly complex construction and development activity while maintaining accuracy, speed, and transparency.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performance team working across property management, construction, and development in a single, unified platform.
Arboreal is a drug-free workplace, and we use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires
Salary : $35