Accounting Manager

About Arboreal Management

Arboreal Management is a fast-growing, tech-enabled and fully integrated real estate platform for the Pacific Northwest. We are a mission-driven organization primarily focused on affordable housing. We develop, remodel and manage housing that addresses our region's most critical needs.

• Arboreal Management — a property management company overseeing 8,000+ apartment homes.
• Arboreal Construction — an in-house construction company delivering renovations and ground-up projects.
• Great Expectations — a development and investment platform focused on expanding housing supply, with over 120 investors and 20 projects delivered.

We operate with a clear mission: to deliver below-market rents to residents while achieving above-market returns for investors.

Our model is built on vertical integration, operational discipline, and a commitment to long‑term ownership. We combine local expertise with a modern, technology-enabled approach, including internally developed tools that support accounting, reporting, and operations. We are growing quickly, with a large and expanding pipeline of development projects. As we scale, we are building a finance and accounting team that can support increasingly complex activity while maintaining accuracy, speed, and transparency.

We are hiring an Accounting Manager in Seattle for a hybrid role spanning three areas: the accounting and reporting for a handful of client relationships and their properties, the accounting for our corporate operations, and the project accounting for our small development pipeline.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you are accountable for accurate reporting delivered on time across all three. On the client side, that means monthly financials and owner statements that owners can rely on. On the corporate side, it means a clean monthly close and consolidated reporting across our three entities.

Day‑to‑day transactional accounting is performed by our offshore accounting team. You direct and review their work — setting expectations, answering questions, and serving as the final reviewer before anything reaches leadership, investors, or clients. This is a hands‑on ownership role rather than a supervisory one: you will be in the books, reviewing reconciliations, investigating variances, and standing behind the numbers you deliver.

It's an opportunity to work across property management, construction, and development in a single unified platform, with significant autonomy and direct executive visibility.

• Own the monthly close and reporting calendar for your assigned clients and their properties; deliver accurate financial statements and owner statements on schedule, every period.
• Serve as the final reviewer of property‑level financials before they are released to leadership and clients.
• Investigate and explain variances, abnormal balances, and unexpected results; ensure issues are resolved rather than carried forward.
• Serve as the accounting point of contact for your clients and ownership groups — responding to inquiries, walking owners through their statements, and resolving issues promptly and professionally.
• Support property onboarding and transitions within your portfolio, including opening balances and the first close.
• Oversee full‑cycle property accounting for your portfolio: AP, AR, cash management, bank reconciliations, security deposit and trust balances, and intercompany balances.

• Own the monthly close at the corporate level for Arboreal Management.
• Prepare and review intercompany reconciliations and eliminations across entities; produce a consolidated financial package for CFO review on a defined close calendar.
• Maintain business line P&L reporting for Property Management, Construction, and Development.
• Post and review corporate‑level journal entries; maintain chart of accounts integrity at the entity level.
• Track receivables from properties back to Arboreal Management for settlement of intercompany reimbursements and management fees.
• Support cash reporting and treasury needs, including entity‑level cash position…