Senior Project Accountant

Tricon Residential is an owner, operator and developer of single-family rental homes in the U.S. and multi-family apartments in Canada. Our commitment to enriching the lives of our employees, residents and local communities underpins Tricon’s culture and business philosophy. We provide high-quality rental housing options for families across the United States and Canada through our technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground operating teams. Our development programs are also delivering thousands of new rental homes and apartments as part of our commitment to help solve the housing supply shortage. At Tricon, we imagine a world where housing unlocks life’s potential.

We strive to be North America’s premier rental housing company. Our business philosophy involves taking care of our team first – empowering them to provide our residents with exceptional service and to positively impact the local communities where we operate. By providing an enhanced living experience, our residents rent for longer periods of time, treat our properties like their own, and share their experience with friends and family. This is how we continue to grow, and it is an approach that has proven to generate positive returns for our stakeholders.

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Job Description

The Senior Project Accountant, is responsible for working on various ad hoc accounting projects across the accounting department. The incumbent works on some priority projects in the accounting department and works closely with other non-accounting departments such as IT. Projects may include working on fixed assets (including acquisition and disposition accounting) for the single-family rental homes in the portfolio (or market) as well as accounting for assigned partner entities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following but are not limited to the job specifications contained herein.  Additional duties or job functions that can be performed safely may be required as deemed necessary by supervisory personnel.

• Key player on new fixed asset system implementation and data validation

• Serve as liaison between IT and Accounting teams to troubleshoot issues within the Fixed Asset module and coordinate development of customized reports

• Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, managing multiple priorities while maintaining high attention to detail and accuracy

• Demonstrate flexibility and a team-oriented mindset, with a willingness to take on special projects and cross-functional tasks within the accounting department as needed

• Verify depreciation calculated via fixed asset system and ensure interface back to fixed asset general ledger

• Reconcile Fixed Asset subledger to General Ledger (GL) on a monthly basis, ensuring accuracy and completeness of asset transactions.

• Record fixed asset acquisitions, dispositions, HFS into the fixed asset subsidiary ledger

• Maintain and monitor fixed asset records and procedures

• Prepare and reconcile fixed asset roll-forward, job cost, and rental roll reports monthly

• Calculate monthly accruals and prepare monthly/quarterly journal entries as necessary

• Analyze and maintain general ledgers, trial balances and financial statements

• Prepare audit schedules relating to fixed assets and assist the auditors in their inquiries

• Perform back-up duties as necessary

Qualifications:

• Focus efforts on achieving high quality results consistent with the organization’s standards

• Demonstrate and support the organization's ethics and values

• Foster teamwork

• Must be available to work one weekend during month-end/quarter-end closing

• Must be detailed oriented and accustomed to fast-paced environments and multiple deadlines

• Advanced Excel skills and ability to write formulas using vlookup, xlookup, sumifs, and pivot tables

• Demonstrated strong attention to detail

• Ability to work independently, taking ownership of work product and completing work within specified deadlines

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal