About The Role:
CBRE's Investment Accounting & Reporting Solutions group is seeking a Senior Controller to join a collaborative team focused supporting a portfolio of clients.
What You'll Do:
• Review and provide final approval of financial statements, NAVs, and supporting documentation, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with organizational and investor expectations.
• Implement compliance with GAAP, FASB standards, and internal policies, proactively assessing risk and driving consistent application across all reporting activities.
• Provide strategic oversight of the full financial reporting lifecycle for investment entities, ensuring timely delivery, operational excellence, and scalability of processes.
• Lead and direct highly complex financial reviews, including detailed asset level reconciliations, income statement performance analysis, and balance sheet integrity assessments across portfolios.
• Deliver forward looking financial insights and actionable recommendations to executive leadership, asset managers, and key stakeholders to influence investment strategy and performance outcomes.
• Serve as main contact for external audit relationships, managing timelines, and driving resolution of complex audit matters and technical accounting issues.
• Establish and continuously enhance a robust internal control environment, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while identifying opportunities to strengthen governance and mitigate risk.
• Act as a senior escalation point and trusted advisor for clients, fund teams, asset managers, and auditors on complex financial reporting and accounting matters.
• Partner with senior leadership to deliver strategic financial guidance that supports capital allocation decisions, portfolio optimization, and long term value creation.
• Champion transformation initiatives focused on process optimization, data governance, and reporting automation to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Provide leadership in technology strategy and system implementations, driving adoption of best practices and innovative solutions across the organization.
• Oversee accounting policy interpretation and technical treatment for complex transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, and other events.
• Resolve and respond to escalated issues and requests, including answering questions regarding various accounting issues and reports.
• Partners with the field and Account Management teams to ensure requirements and terms of the client's Management Agreement are adhered to based upon working knowledge of these agreements.
• Coordinate work with other team members within single point-of-contact (SPOC) guidelines.
• Troubleshoot issues to ensure internal and external requests are handled timely, accurately, and with a focus on customer service.
• Provide assistance such as technical guidance to coworkers.
• May coordinate and assign tasks to coworkers within a project.
• Support internal and external audits, providing required documentation and explanations.
• Ensure adherence to CBRE's IA&R standards, SOX compliance (if applicable), and client-specific policies.
• Drive improvements in accounting procedures, reporting automation, and workflow efficiencies.
• Support onboarding of new clients and transition of new scopes of work.
What You'll Need:
To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience required.
• Prior experience in real estate accounting and analytics is required.
• Requires prior supervisory experience and experience with real estate accounting or reporting software systems such as Yardi.
• Ability to inspire and motivate employees and client groups to take desired action. Requires a high level of commitment to customer service, whether co-workers or clients.
• Advanced technical financial skills and comprehensive knowledge of GAAP, FASB standards.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and related tools.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner with clients and cross-functional teams.
• Strong quantitative skills, with the ability to perform moderately complex financial calculations such as percentages, fractions, and related numerical analyses.
CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for this position is $140,000 annually and the maximum salary for this position is $158,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBRE's applicable benefit program.
