Accounting Controller

Accounting Controller

Our client, a real estate investment firm, headquartered in Boston, is looking for an experienced, full-time Accounting Controller to oversee Yardi ecosystem, fund accounting, workflows, and forecasting. The Controller will take ownership of workflows, work directly with an accounting assistant, and coordinate with a team of third-party servicers to handle day-to-day processing.

Responsibilities:

• Administer and optimize Yardi Voyager across GL, AP, AR, job cost, reporting

• Own Procure-to-Pay / Bill-to-Pay workflows and approval matrices

• Run Accounting: capital accounts, allocations, waterfall distributions, IRR returns

• Manage Investment Manager app: investor data integrity, performance reporting, distribution modeling

• Oversee AppFolio for residential units

• Lead fund accounting, consolidations, and intercompany reconciliations

• Build & maintain Excel models and macros for forecasting, distributions, scenario analysis

• Forecast budgets, monitor actuals vs. projections, and model investor distributions

• Manage construction draws, reserve draws, loan documents, insurance/fee collections

• Oversee AP workflows and internal controls

• Directly manage an accounting assistant and oversee third-party accounting servicers

Requirements:

• 7–15 years in real estate private equity, institutional RE accounting, or fund accounting

• Expert-level Yardi and AppFolio user

• Fluent in waterfalls, IRR, fund structures, capital accounts

• Strong in forecasting, modeling, and automation in Excel

• Comfortable directing staff and holding third-party servicers to high standards

Technical Competencies:

• Yardi Voyager, Yardi Procure-to-Pay / Bill-to-Pay, Yardi Investment Accounting

• Investment Manager

• AppFolio (residential)

• Fund accounting and waterfalls

• Construction accounting

• Advanced Excel (dynamic modeling, macros, automation)

• Multi-entity consolidations

• AP workflow governance and controls

Work Environment: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote

Salary: $140k–$150k base 20% Target Bonus