Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant — Multifamily Real Estate

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL | Full-Time | Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)

ABOUT CARBON

Carbon Real Estate Investments is a vertically integrated multifamily private equity firm with approximately $200M in assets under management. We own and operate Class B workforce housing across Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Unlike most sponsors at our scale, we run our own property management — the same team that buys the buildings operates, leases, renovates, and reports on them.

Today our accounting is handled by an outsourced firm. We are bringing it in-house. This role leads that transition.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is not a bookkeeping role. We need someone to build an in-house accounting function from the ground up — owning the financial integrity of every property and entity in our portfolio, designing the processes that keep the books clean, and holding a small team accountable to executing them.

In year one, you'll be deep inside Yardi — auditing the chart of accounts, tightening month-end close, building variance review, and standing up controls that scale with our acquisition pipeline. You'll report to our Integrator (Carbon's COO equivalent) and partner closely with our Controller, CIO/Capital Markets, and asset management team.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Financial Integrity & Review

• Review monthly property financials, balance sheets, and trial balances — catch issues before they leave the door
• Own intercompany reconciliations across our entity structure, including bill-backs and payroll allocations
• Lead month-end close coordination — same close day, every month, every property
• Maintain GAAP-compliant practices and prepare schedules supporting audits, lender reviews, and tax returns
• Manage the transition from our outsourced firm to an in-house accounting function

Process Design & Team Leadership

• Build, document, and enforce accounting SOPs — close, AP coding, journal entry approval, reconciliations, capital events
• Hire, manage, and develop a small accounting team (1–3 people) as the portfolio grows
• Run a weekly team cadence with measurable outputs: close progress, open items, escalations

Systems & Technology

• Serve as the internal Yardi accounting expert — COA, recurring entries, banking modules, financial report customization
• Identify and implement automation that reduces manual work: bank feeds, AP coding, recurring entries, allocations
• Evaluate additional tools (QuickBooks Online, AP automation, fund accounting) on merit — recommend only when the case is real

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

First 90 Days:

• Full COA audit complete with cleanup items prioritized
• Month-end close documented; written close calendar in place
• Close lands on the same day, every month, every property — no drift
• First three accounting SOPs written and rolled out

First Year:

• End-to-end accounting is seamless with controls at every handoff
• Automation has replaced manual work wherever it was eating time
• Every account reconciles. Every entity ties out. Audit trail is clean.
• New acquisitions stood up on Yardi with consistent COA and reporting templates from day one
• Accounting team built and accountable — clear roles, weekly cadence, quarterly scorecards

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active CPA license in good standing
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 5 years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 3 years in multifamily or commercial real estate
• Deep, hands-on Yardi Voyager experience — COA setup, recurring entries, financial report customization, accounting modules
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP as applied to real estate ownership, partnerships, and entity structures
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing accounting processes — not just executing them
• Experience reviewing junior staff work and holding them accountable to standards and deadlines
• Advanced Excel: pivots, INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP, basic modeling
• Must be able and willing to work full-time in our Coconut Grove, Miami office

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Public accounting background (Big 4 or strong regional firm) with real estate audit clients
• Direct experience bringing an outsourced accounting function in-house, or building from scratch
• QuickBooks Online experience for non-property entities (corporate, GP, SPVs)
• Exposure to AP automation tools (AvidXchange or similar) and reporting platforms (Coda, Power BI)
• Experience accounting for capital events — acquisitions, refinances, dispositions, preferred equity, promote structures
• Vertically integrated owner-operator experience (not pure third-party fee management)

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Base salary: $105,000 – $125,000 (target range for a strong CPA with 5–7 years multifamily Yardi experience: $110,000 – $118,000)
• Annual performance bonus tied to quarterly scorecard
• Full medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Paid time off and standard US holidays
• Coconut Grove office — walkable to lunch, near Brickell and the water

HOW WE WORK

• We optimize for outcomes, not activity. Bring problems with analysis and a recommendation attached.
• Trust is built by finishing things. Missed deadlines and surprises erode it fast.
• Speed matters. We're a small team running a $200M portfolio — our standards don't bend because something is hard.
• We run on EOS, measure everything, and use Yardi as our source of truth.
• We use AI tools across the team. We expect accounting to use them too — curiosity about new tools is non-negotiable.

HOW TO APPLY: Send your resume and a short note answering one question:

"Walk us through a process you built from scratch in a previous role — what was broken, what you designed, how you got people to actually use it, and what changed as a result."

We read every application. Generic cover letters won't help you. Specific stories will.