Overview
Liberty Military Housing – Own your passion for service!
At Liberty Military Housing,we’re here to serve those who serve our country by providing military families with comfortable, well-maintained homes in inviting communities across the United States. We take great pride in our highly trained team of professionals. With a blend of property management and military backgrounds, our employee-owners bring a proactive, solution-oriented mindset, along with unparalleled levels of empathy and understanding for our residents and one another.
Liberty Military Housing is dedicated to helping our employees develop personally and professionally and provides an unprecedented 150+ hours of professional development annually to each employee-owner. Camaraderie and collaboration form the foundation of our culture. We put people first, honoring one another’s diverse experiences, ideas, and contributions to our shared success. We strive to bring out the best in each other so we can do outstanding work and positively impact the lives of military families.
We’re always looking for dedicated team members in a variety of roles to help create meaningful results that help us meet our company goals. We offer an excellent benefits package, training, development, and opportunities for advancement, so if you’re ready to grow your career, take a look at our current job openings and become an employee-owner at Liberty Military Housing.
Responsibilities
A Day in the Life of a Property Accountant III
As a Property Accountant III for Liberty Military Housing, you will be responsible for completion of all accounting-related tasks necessary to produce accurate monthly, quarterly and annual records reflecting the financial performance of the Company. You will be working within the Property Accounting team to ensure that their tasks are performed timely, efficiently and accurately. You will provide timely and relevant feedback to the Property Accounting Manager on challenges observed with on-site record keeping so that training opportunities can be identified and addressed prior to materially impacting financial and / or operating performance.
Your Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Demonstrate good understanding of balance sheet reconciliation and relationship between balance sheet and income statement accounts.
- Daily review of General Ledger accounts (Operating Statement and Balance Sheet) to ensure the accuracy of posted activity, communicating needed reclasses to Property Accounting Supervisor and Regional Accounting Manager
- Analyze various accounts detail and accrual entries to ensure accuracy including resolution of errors and discrepancies, post adjusting journal entries, and provide variance explanation.
- Analyze financial reports, track and maintain restricted cash balances for insurance, tax, security deposits etc.
- Monthly review of draw requests, fund activity reconciliation, bank reconciliation, and financial reports prepared by other team members.
- Create assets from a general ledger, review monthly fixed assets draft to put assets in service. Analyze and dispose fully depreciated assets, and maintain monthly fixed assets roll forward report.
- Prepare monthly fixed assets reconciliation against general ledger balance and help Regional Accounting Manager with generating fixed assets and depreciation reconciliation reports during audit season.
- Daily reconciliation of disbursement accounts including resolution of any reconciling items
- Daily review of intercompany balances, preparation of transfers to clear balances
- Daily booking of all cash entries and maintaining accurate operating and restricted cash records.
- Prepare entries for monthly allocation of national and regional costs
- Prepare draw requests and maintain associated tracking and reconciliation schedules including WIP analysis
- Prepare financial review packages and other financial schedules as may be required from time to time by the Owner
- Prepare required quarterly reporting for submission to Property Accounting Supervisor and Regional Accounting Manager
- Coordinate and assist with annual financial statement audit
- Coordinate annual budget file preparation
- Identify and communicate process improvements for efficiency and better service to on-site teams
- Other tasks as may be identified in the future or assigned as ad-hoc projects
Qualifications
What You Need for Success:
- Ability to work more hours at peak times such as month, quarter and year-end
- Ability to think critically, ask intelligent questions, analyze data. and solve problems with minimum instructions.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
- Minimum five years of accounting experience required
- Strong proficiency in MS Excel (pivot tables, look ups, sum Ifs, and conditional formulas) required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Strong attention to detail and critical thinking required
- Yardi experience preferred
- Experience in Property Management industry preferred
- Work environment is dynamic - adaptability and flexibility are needed for success
- Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
What We Provide You:
Liberty Military Housing takes into consideration everything from career development to family matters, and health & wellness. We are committed to offering our team members a wide range of benefits, including the following:
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance*
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan w/company match
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Incentive Bonus Program
- 10 Paid Holidays per year
- 40 hours Paid Sick Leave per year**
- 80 hours Paid Vacation per year**
* Medical/Dental/Vision insurance eligible after 30 days of full-time employment.
**Vacation and sick time are based on the employee's hire date.
