Technical Accounting & Reporting Manager

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Technical Accounting & Reporting Manager

FLSA Exemption: Exempt, salaried

Reports to: Vice President of Accounting

Job Description: The Technical Accounting & Reporting Manager will play a critical leadership role in building and maintaining institutional-quality financial reporting across the enterprise. This position will own consolidated platform reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis; manage the Management Company budget; and lead the integration of accounting data from Yardi into Power BI to create actionable dashboards for executives, investors, and operational teams.

The ideal candidate brings Big 4 public accounting experience, holds an active CPA, and has deep expertise in real estate accounting, consolidations, budgeting, and data visualization.

This is a high-impact role that will interface regularly with senior leadership, including the CFO, Vice President of Accounting, Controller, and business unit heads.

Why This Role Matters: This position is critical to transforming the Company from a traditional developer into a data-driven, institutional-grade real estate platform. The Technical Accounting & Reporting Manager will shape how leadership, partners, and investors understand performance, risk, and opportunity across the portfolio.

Primary Duties

Consolidated Platform Reporting

• Own consolidated financial reporting across the entire real estate platform, including:
• Land development
• Homebuilding
• Commercial development
• General contracting
• Asset management
• Prepare and review consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements under GAAP.
• Develop standardized enterprise-level reporting packages for leadership, lenders, and investors.
• Maintain consistency in accounting reporting presentation across business lines and joint ventures.
• Partner with external auditors and tax advisors on consolidated reporting matters.
• Perform technical research and prepare technical accounting memos, including consolidation considerations.
• Evaluate business transactions for proper U.S. GAAP accounting treatment, including accounting and disclosure requirements.
• Assist with the implementation and ongoing monitoring of significant new accounting pronouncements and documentation of accounting policies.
  

Forecasting & Variance Analysis

• Lead enterprise-level financial forecasting, including:
• Consolidated income statement forecasts
• Cash flow projections
• Balance sheet planning
• Perform detailed budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual variance analysis, identifying key drivers of performance.
• Present findings to leadership with clear explanations of risks, opportunities, and trends.
• Work with business unit leaders to refine assumptions and improve forecast accuracy over time.
• Support strategic planning initiatives with data-driven financial insights.
  

Management Company Budgeting & Cost Allocation

• Own and manage the Management Company budget, including:
• Management Fees Revenue
• Office overhead (rent, technology, insurance, professional fees, travel, etc.)
• Shared services costs
• Track and analyze variances between budget and actual spending on a monthly basis.
• Develop and maintain a rational, defensible methodology for allocating management company costs to projects and joint ventures.
• Oversee and review billings from the Management Company to projects, ensuring:
• Accuracy
• Consistency
• Compliance with partnership agreements and internal policies
• Work closely with accounting and operations to align staffing, overhead, and project-level cost recovery.
  

Institutional Reporting & Analytics

• Design and implement institutional-quality reporting packages, including:
• Portfolio performance reporting
• Project-level returns and profitability analysis
• Cash flow forecasting and variance analysis
• Budget vs. actual reporting
• Improve transparency, consistency, and reliability of financial data across all business lines.
  

Power BI & Systems Integration

• Lead the integration of financial data from Yardi into Power BI.
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide:
• Real-time financial performance metrics
• Project-level KPIs
• Profitability and margin analysis
• Cash flow tracking
• Operational and investment insights
• Work closely with IT, accounting, and operations teams to ensure data accuracy and system alignment.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting processes.
  

Process Improvement & Controls

• Strengthen internal controls related to financial reporting and data governance.
• Streamline month-end and quarter-end close processes.
• Implement best practices from Big 4 experience to enhance reporting rigor and efficiency.
• Develop documentation for accounting policies, procedures, and reporting standards.
  
  

Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as a key partner to business unit leaders in finance, development, construction, and asset management.
• Train and mentor junior finance and accounting staff as needed.
• Act as a bridge between accounting, operations, and data analytics teams.
  
  

Required

Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field - master’s degree preferred
• Active CPA license
• Big 4 public accounting experience
• 6–10 years of progressive experience in accounting and financial reporting
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, consolidations, and real estate accounting
  
  

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with Yardi (strongly preferred)
• Experience building or managing dashboards in Power BI
• Experience in real estate development, construction, or private equity
• Familiarity with joint venture accounting and complex ownership structures
• Experience working with institutional investors or lenders
• Prior leadership or management experience
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Primarily an in-office position, with infrequent walking, standing, and climbing stairs in/around construction sites, apartment homes, models, and properties
• Must have the ability to read and comprehend large quantities of information, operate computer equipment, speak, hear, bend, stoop, reach, lift, move, and carry up to 25 lbs. independently.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach, and move about office setting
• To perform other duties as required
  
  

Key Competencies

• Analytical and detail-oriented
• Strong communicator (finance to non-finance audiences)
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Able to balance technical accounting with practical business insights
• Proactive problem-solver
• Data-driven mindset
  
  

Note: The need may arise to revise, supplement, or rescind portions of this job description, and #LHMRE reserves the right to do so at any time. Employees shall be required to meet the qualifications and perform the duties of any revised job description.

About Larry H. Miller Real Estate

Larry H. Miller Real Estate (LHMRE), a portfolio company of the Larry H. Miller Company, is a vertically integrated real estate platform that engages in site acquisition and development, project and construction management, financial and capital structuring, and property and asset management. LHMRE’s development projects and assets include large-scale master-planned residential communities; commercial, industrial, and entertainment venue development and asset management; and a growing portfolio of joint ventures with leading real estate partners across the nation. The Larry H. Miller Company provides management and direction for its portfolio of well-known and high-performing companies and always seeks to support its mission to enrich lives and its vision to be the best place in town to work and the best place in town to do business.