Controller (Retail Shopping Centers)

Our Company
We are a privately held property management firm location in Orange County near Tustin/Irvine that currently manages a portfolio of over 5 million square feet of retail shopping centers.  You are currently an Assistant Controller or Controller with retail shopping center accounting experience who is ready to step into a higher position to manage a team of 10-12 accountants and support staff.

Overview

Responsible for the review of all financial reporting prepared by the property teams for their assigned properties. Create and implement accounting procedures and policies in accordance with GAAP, best practices and industry standards. Manage a team of 10 to 12 accountants and support staff.

Main Responsibilities

• Coordinate process and perform quality review of annual billing reconciliations, annual budgets and quarterly forecast for assigned properties.
• Gain complete understanding of client accounting requirements, communicate requirements to property teams, and ensure requirements are met as established by the client.
• Function as a resource to property teams to coordinate procedures, respond to accounting questions, and respond to client questions.
• Conduct training initiatives developed for property accounting.
• Participate in special projects.
• Knowledge of JDE or other client accounting systems, as well as the Kardin budget system.
• Ability to understand and interpret retail lease documents.
• Coordinate cash management activities between owner and property teams.
• Understand client accounting requirements, communicate requirements to the property teams and ensure requirements are met as established by the client.
• Serve as resource to property teams to coordinate procedures, respond to accounting questions and client questions

Competencies

• Adaptability – maintains effectiveness in varying environments, tasks and responsibilities, or with various types of people.
• Planning and Organizing – establish course of action to accomplish goals and evaluates results, develops schedules and task/people assignments, can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish goals, uses resources effectively and efficiently.
• Customer Focus – dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of the external and internal customer, acts with customer in mind, establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers, and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity – can effectively cope with change, can shift gears comfortably, can decide and act without having the total picture, can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Developing Others – provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments, is aware of each direct report’s goals and is a people builder.
• Learning on the Fly - learns quickly when facing new problems, open to change, quickly grasps the essence and underlying structure of anything, enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks.
• Motivating Others – creates a climate in which people want to do their best, empowers others, makes each individual feel their work is important.
• Managerial Courage – provides current, direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others, faces up to problems quickly and directly.
• Drive for Results – can be counted on to exceed goals successfully, bottom line oriented, pushes self and other for results.
• Written/Oral Communications – is able to write and speak clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.
• Problem Solving – uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answer.
• Time Management – uses their time effectively and efficiently; concentrates efforts on the more important priorities; can attend to a broader range of activities.
• Financially Astute – Thorough understanding of retail accounting principles including NNN recovery ratios and methods, accrual and cash basis accounting, reading and understanding financial statements, lease language interpretation and budgeting and forecasting.

Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. – Accounting
• 8 plus years retail property accounting. Supervisory and significant experience with accounting systems and procedures.
• Microsoft office products, Yardi, Kardin, AVID, ACH Application, Lockbox.