Senior Accountant, Partnership

At Welltower, we’re transforming how the world thinks about senior living and wellness-focused real estate. As a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, we create vibrant, purpose-driven communities where housing, healthcare, and hospitality converge. Our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and endlessly ambitious—guided by our mantra:
The only easy day was yesterday.

We’re looking for bold, independent thinkers who thrive on challenge, embrace complexity, and are driven to deliver long-term value. Every team member is empowered to think like an owner, innovate fearlessly, and lead from where they stand. If you’re passionate about outcomes and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure, we want you on our best-in‑class team.

The Senior Accountant, Partnership Accounting owns accounting and financial reporting for a portfolio of operator partnerships, including foreign operators and other complex structures, with emphasis on monthly intercompany consolidation, journal entries, account reconciliations, and billbacks under US GAAP, SOX requirements, and Company policy. The role also reviews staff accountants' work, trains and mentors new team members, and drives process improvements that make the close more efficient and repeatable.

The successful candidate has firm command of accounting fundamentals, resolves consolidation and foreign currency translation issues independently, knows when to elevate, and is a trusted resource to operating partners and the accounting team.

• Serve as the primary accounting contact for an assigned portfolio of operators, including foreign operators and other complex structures, resolving inquiries independently, leading operator meetings, and escalating matters to management when appropriate.
• Maintain accurate books and records for assigned partnership entities, including preparation of journal entries to support a complete and accurate monthly close.
• Perform monthly account reconciliations and review reconciliations prepared by staff accountants, ensuring working papers fully support all balances and reconciling items are resolved timely.
• Review the work of staff accountants across assigned operators, including journal entries, operator setup, consolidations, and key controls, providing specific and timely feedback with minimal errors or missed items.
• Perform monthly consolidation and intercompany elimination procedures, independently identifying and resolving consolidation issues, including foreign currency translation errors.
• Review monthly operator financial submissions and perform analytical review of financial and operating results, developing and pursuing questions with operators on variances and quarterly trends, including the impact on non‑GAAP metrics such as NOI and FFO.
• Apply the appropriate accounting treatment across RIDEA and non‑RIDEA structures.
• Support the accounting for acquisitions, dispositions, and other transaction activity affecting operator‑accounted properties, partnering with the transactions team on complex deals.
• Perform key internal controls for partnership accounting, prepare documentation supporting SOX requirements, and serve as a point of contact for external and internal audit requests.
• Train, coach, and mentor staff accountants on partnership accounting fundamentals.
• Initiate process improvement projects that build sustainable, repeatable processes, and document related procedures.
• Perform ad‑hoc analysis and other duties as required.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are…