Senior Accountant

The Senior Investment Accountant ensures that investment accounting policies and procedures are correctly applied to financial transactions. Under minimal supervision, this job works directly with asset management, portfolio management and acquisition/disposition teams. This job leads a team to prepare month end closing reports and subsidiary quarterly financial analytics, and reports to senior management ensuring accurate asset evaluations.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Prepares timely and accurate GAAP work papers and supporting schedules to satisfy all investment accounting requirements for internal and external audits.
• Reviews financial information for joint ventures to ensure compliance with investment accounting policies and procedures (sales, acquisitions, debt refinancing, REIT restructuring, and financial performance).
• Incorporates frequent ad hoc financial inquiries into the monthly and quarterly reports, adding value by providing management insight into the activities of the underlying properties.
• Calculates unlevered and levered, gross and net portfolio performance returns and property internal rates of return.
• Converts modified cash basis accounting information provided by third party management firms to accrual basis to facilitate preparation of fair value GAAP basis financial statements.
• Provides guidance to junior Investment Accountants regarding issues that require more advanced knowledge and experience.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
7IC

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION:

• 3+ years of accounting experience in public accounting, fund accounting, real estate accounting and/or financial statement preparation

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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of accounting experience in public accounting, fund accounting, real estate accounting and/or financial statement preparation

• CPA license

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting

• Strong proficiency in MS Office: Excel, Word and PowerPoint 

• Previous experience using Yardi and Workiva

• Public Accounting

• Real Estate Accounting

• Cash Management

• Carried Interest Allocations

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ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Oversee the Fund Admin team to ensure all reporting deadlines are met timely and accurately.

• Reviews all legal agreements to ensure accounting structures are setup appropriately.

• Reviews all REIT compliance and tax compliance schedules.

• Reviews all Investor agreements to ensure commitments and side letter reporting are setup and accurate.

• From time-to-time review and research complex transactions.

• Review all debt agreements and ensure debt covenants adhered to.

Related Skills

Accountability, Accounting Standards, Business Acumen, Client Relationship Management, Collaboration, Communication, Compliance, Data-Driven Business Intelligence, Due Diligence, Executive Presence, Financial Acumen, Financial Modeling, Financial Risk Management, Financial Statements, Fund Accounting, Market/Industry Dynamics, Stakeholder Engagement, Story Telling

Anticipated Posting End Date:

2026-01-26

Base Pay Range: $76,300/yr - $101,000/yr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.  In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). 

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Company Overview

Nuveen is a global investment leader, managing public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of TIAA, our parent company and one of the world’s largest institutional investors. We invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure and natural capital, providing clients with the reliability, access and foresight unique to our heritage. Our prevailing perspective on the future drives our ambition to innovate and adapt our business to the changing needs of investors - all to pursue lasting performance for our clients, our communities an