Director, Strategic Capital Reporting

Prologis, Inc. is the global leader in logistics real estate. In partnership with our customers and our communities, we develop modern, high-quality properties that set the standard for innovative building design and sustainability. Prologis owns or has investments in properties and development projects of ~1.2 billion square feet in 19 countries and enables 2.8% of the world’s GDP. We have committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. Beyond real estate, our Essentials platform optimizes the company’s global asset portfolio to provide our customers solutions that address today’s warehouse and shipping challenges. Prologis Ventures invests in logistics innovation and technology companies to modernize supply chains worldwide.

Job Title:

Director, Strategic Capital Reporting

Company:

Prologis

Director, Strategic Capital Reporting

A day in the life

Our Strategic Capital accounting team is responsible for the consolidation, financial statement preparation and external reporting of large multi-billion dollar ventures formed in the United States. As the Director, Strategic Capital Reporting, you will be responsible for leading the U.S. strategic capital reporting team, including reporting for two multi-billion dollar funds that report under U.S. GAAP and IFRS and numerous joint venture partnerships. You will be given the opportunity to interact with various internal teams in a complex and fast-paced environment. You should have a background in real estate fund financial reporting, demonstrated leadership ability, demonstrated ability to grow and develop a strong team, and superior decision-making analysis skills.  This is a great opportunity to lead a strong established financial reporting team into the future!

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead in a global role reporting to senior Accounting leadership and work alongside leaders of the U.S. and global financial reporting and corporate accounting teams
• Oversee and lead all internal and external financial reporting for U.S. strategic capital reporting.  This includes two multi-billion dollar funds that report under U.S. GAAP and IFRS and numerous joint venture partnerships.
• Oversee the timely and accurate accounting for and reporting of funds and ventures on a monthly and quarterly basis, which includes review of the consolidated financial statements, Net Asset Value (NAV) and fair value reporting, and quarterly external reports
• Responsible for partnering with fund management and legal on partnership documents for new funds or revisions to existing fund documents.
• Lead additional financial reporting as needed, including additional reporting for public debt offerings by the funds
• Be a primary point of contact for the funds and certain JVs in the US, and work with corporate accounting teams to ensure that fund and JV transactions are also appropriately accounted for and reported by Prologis.
• Take a leadership role in collaborating with operations, finance, FP&A, tax and legal to execute and understand transactions impacting the funds and joint ventures (acquisitions, dispositions, formation of ventures, etc) in order to ensure appropriate reporting for these transactions, and to support consolidated financial reporting and budgeting/forecasting for the transactions.
• Lead the strategic capital reporting team in collaborating with the global accounting and reporting teams on initiatives around automating and streamlining reporting processes.
• Lead and oversee a team of 6+ (direct and indirect reports). Responsible for overseeing and reviewing the team’s work, as well as the training and development of all team members.  Also responsible for cultivating and maintaining a great team culture.
• Be an exceptional business partner to fund management and various other departments, build strong relationships with partners/ investors and support external auditors
• Special projects as needed for senior management
• Make suggested improvements to existing processes and assist with implementation

Building blocks for success

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting from a four-year college or university
• 10+ total years of financial reporting experience for large companies, with prior lead roles in this area 
• Combination of public accounting experience and/ or relevant real estate fund experience required (5+ years required in leadership role)
• CPA license required
• Ability to apply U.S. GAAP and IFRS standards extensively to financial statement areas as well as in preparation of financial statements
• Proven leadership skills, including developing and growing team members. Su