Senior Accountant
17 hours ago
New York
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, • 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, • 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, • 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.