Senior Associate Accountant - Real Estate

Mahoney | CPAs and Advisors

$77K — $87K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven ability to perform key tax and accounting duties
  • Associate's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
  • Experience in public accounting or a client-focused environment
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
  • Active CPA certification or pursuing it preferred
  • Experience with real estate clients or nonprofits preferred
  • Familiarity with Engagement Manager and CCH software is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Prepare partnership tax returns and financial audit statements
  • Assist with construction accounting tasks
  • Develop cost certifications for LIHTC and HTC projects
  • Ensure accuracy and compliance in documentation
  • Analyze property-level financial data using Excel tools
  • Manage timelines and review staff workpapers
  • Engage with clients to strengthen relationships and improve processes

Benefits

  • Firm contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • CPA reimbursement and bonus program
  • Annual in-house continuing education training
  • Flexible and hybrid work arrangements
  • Company-sponsored events and activities
  • Free onsite parking
  • Access to an in-house fitness center
Full Job Description
What You'll Do

As a Senior Associate, you play a key role in delivering high-quality tax and accounting services by preparing partnership tax returns, supporting annual financial audit statements of real estate projects, and assisting with construction accounting needs. Additional responsibilities include the preparation of development cost certifications for LIHTC and HTC projects; ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strong documentation across all related work.

In this role, you'll continue developing your foundational Microsoft Excel capabilities with shortcuts, formulas, pivot tables, and other basic functionalities. These skills help organize and analyze property-level financial data, support basic data-driven calculations, and automate routine tasks such as data entry and report preparation. These are the building blocks to support the creation and management of financial statements, tax returns, and real estate-related reports. With increased experience, these tools help you work more effectively and boost production efficiency.

Great exposure to technical matters enables you to identify more complex tax or audit issues and assist in determining practical, well-supported solutions. You will begin to gather information, managing timelines for assigned work, and reviewing staff workpapers to ensure conclusions are clear, complete, and property supported.

Client relationships strengthen through their insights, prompt responses, and a solution-focused approach that helps move engagements forward. Working closely with clients and colleagues, you help deliver meaningful, reliable results while looking for ways to improve processes and enhance service quality. As expertise deepens, you continue to invest in your own development through coaching, feedback, and ongoing technical development that elevates analytical capabilities and builds emerging leadership skills.

Additional work hours are required from January through April 15th.

Required Education & Skills
  • Proven ability to perform the core duties outlined above
  • Associate's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree
  • Background in public accounting or a client-focused environment

Preferred Education & Skills
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree
  • Active CPA certification or working toward completion
  • Experience with Real Estate clients and/or nonprofit organization
  • Prior experience with Engagement Manager, CCH ProSystem fx, and CCH Axcess

What We Provide

Our leadership embraces a culture of curiosity, adaptability, and continuous growth. We firmly believe that this mindset is essential for providing exceptional service to our clients and making a positive impact on our community. We are committed to developing every employee to unlock their true potential, and our close-knit environment fosters teamwork while building strong internal relationships.

Mahoney offers a range of unique benefits to our staff. These include firm contributions to Health Savings Accounts, CPA reimbursement and bonus program, annual in-house CPE training, flexible and hybrid work arrangements, fun firm/team events, free onsite parking, and access to our in-house fitness center.

Our compensation package includes a competitive base salary ranging from $77,000 to $87,000. You will be eligible for annual bonuses and profit-sharing with immedate vesting, based on individual performance and the firm's overall success.

Mahoney does not accept resumes from third-party vendors.

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