Assistant Fund Controller

Description

A well-established real estate investment and operating company in Morris County, NJ is seeking an Assistant Fund Controller to oversee financial reporting, cash management, forecasting, and fund-level analysis across a portfolio of real estate investment entities. This role will review accounting completed by an offshore team, challenge results, and coordinate with asset managers, tax advisors, auditors, and other stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has strong real estate accounting experience and understands partnership agreements, waterfalls, IRR hurdles, distributions, debt covenants, and liquidity planning.

Advanced Excel skills are important, and Yardi Voyager experience is preferred.

Requirements

+ 5-8+ years' recent experience in a Fund Accounting capacity within the real estate industry

+ Bachelors degree in Accounting, and strong GAAP accounting background

+ Excel: advanced skills for analysis and waterfalls

+ Knowledgeable with debt structures and covenants, and managing liquidity requirements

+ Ability to review and interpret tax returns, audit work papers, partnership agreements, distributions, and allocation of proceeds

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