Onemarket Solutions - Property Accounting Manager - CA/CPA

Property Accounting Manager (Individual Contributor)

Gurguram (India) | Full-time | Embedded with US-based Real Estate Firm

About the Role:

We're hiring a Property Accounting Manager to embed as a senior individual contributor inside one of our US-based real estate clients. This is not a people-management role today - it's a senior IC seat where you own the property accounting function end-to-end for a portfolio of assets, set the bar for quality, and become the go-to person the client's leadership trusts with the books.

If we both deliver, this seat builds a team underneath you within 12 months.

What You'll Own:

Property-level accounting (the core of the role)

- Full-cycle property accounting for a portfolio of 2050+ assets (multifamily, commercial, mixed-use, or industrial depending on client)

- Monthly close: accruals, prepaids, recurring entries, fixed asset and depreciation schedules, intercompany allocations

- Bank reconciliations, mortgage and debt service entries, escrow and reserve tracking

- CAM reconciliations, common area billings, and tenant recoveries

- Lease accounting under ASC 842 - abstraction, straight-lining, true-ups

- Property tax and insurance accruals, true-ups against actual bills

Reporting & analysis

- Monthly and quarterly financial packages for ownership and asset management - variance commentary, not just numbers

- Budget vs. actual analysis, NOI walks, occupancy and collections trends

- Owner draws and distributions, JV partner reporting where applicable

- Investor and lender reporting packages

Controls & process

- Own the close calendar - drive cycle time down, eliminate the recurring fire drills

- Build and maintain SOPs for every recurring entry, reconciliation, and report

- Coordinate with property managers, AP, AR, treasury, and asset management

- Lead the audit prep and respond directly to auditors and tax preparers

Becoming the anchor

- Set the quality bar that future hires on this account will be measured against

- Document the workflow well enough that we can scale headcount on this client without quality slipping

- Identify what should be automated, templated, or pushed to a Staff Accountant - even if that hire is six months away

What We're Looking For:

- CA, CPA, or equivalent - qualified, with 6-10 years of property accounting experience

- Hands-on, recent ownership of a multi-property portfolio - not a reviewer who hasn't touched the GL in three years

- Deep working knowledge of Yardi Voyager, AppFolio, MRI, or RealPage - you can navigate the system, fix bad data, and build reports without help

- Strong grasp of US GAAP, real estate accounting, ASC 842 lease accounting, and partnership/JV accounting

- CAM reconciliations done independently, start to finish

- Advanced Excel - pivots, lookups, complex models, financial schedules built from scratch

- Experience working directly with US-based asset managers, controllers, or owners

- Comfortable in EST or PST overlap - the role requires real-time collaboration with the US team

- Written-first, direct communicator who can hold the room on a call with the CFO

Bonus Points:

- Experience in both multifamily and commercial asset classes

- Worked through an acquisition, disposition, or refinance and booked the entries

- Built a close calendar or SOP suite that survived after you left

- Experience training or mentoring junior accountants - even informally

What This Role Is Not:

- A people-management seat today. You'll set the standard; the team comes after.

- A reviewer-only role. You'll be in the GL, in the system, in the reports - daily.

- A vendor relationship. You'll be embedded inside the client's finance team, on their Slack, in their stand-ups, accountable to their controller.

What You Get:

- A senior IC seat inside a top-tier US real estate firm - embedded, not outsourced

- Direct relationships with the client's Controller, CFO, and asset management team

- Compensation benchmarked against the top 0.5% of India-based property accountants

- A 12-month path to building and leading a team underneath you on this account

- Cross-portfolio exposure across our US PE and real estate client base