Remote Senior Accountant

Summary

Proper is seeking a Senior Accountant with 5-7 years of experience to join their remote team based in Mexico. The Senior Accountant will oversee the accounting department's daily to monthly functions, review complex transactions, document processes, and provide coaching and mentoring to team members.

Requirements

• Accounting Bachelor's degree
• 5-7 years of experience in accounting
• Intermediate MS-office or Google Suite experience
• Advanced English

Responsibilities

• Reviews more complex accounting transactions and processes including management fees, owner distributions, and owner financial statements
• Oversees the work of staff produced by the accounting pod (i.e. move-ins, move-outs, new vendor setup, etc)
• Assists the Accounting Manager in the onboarding process of new clients that will be processed by the accounting team
• Documents client accounting processes in SOPs that will be used to process client’s accounting tasks
• Escalates team-related processing issues to the Accounting Manager and helps in addressing the issues identified by the client
• Responsible for the Quality Assurance for the work that is being produced by the direct reports: General accountants, AP specialists and Data entry clerks
• Assists the Accounting Manager in balancing processing needs of the pod and ensures that work is distributed to team members in order to meet client deadlines
• Interfaces with Accounting Manager and communicates client needs to the accounting team
• Consolidates accounting-related questions and inquiries from direct reports and helps resolve issues before engaging the client via the Accounting Manager
• Escalation of performance issues of team members to the Accounting Manager
• Provides coaching and mentoring to team members in order to develop property accounting management skills used in client processing