Financial Operations

As the Financial Operations at Amherst, you will play a vital role in supporting core accounting processes and operational initiatives within the organization. Your self-motivation, drive, and intellectual curiosity as an accounting professional will be instrumental in providing strong leadership to our Utilities team and ensuring the smooth running of the department. **Key Responsibilities:** - Oversee and manage various aspects of the general ledger accounting function, ensuring accurate and timely recording of financial transactions in compliance with accounting standards and company policies. - Lead and support a team responsible for executing high-volume, deadline-driven accounting operations. - Ensure timely and accurate reconciliation of General Ledger and Cash accounts on a monthly basis. - Manage and coordinate the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, including the preparation and review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and internal financial reporting. **Essential Capabilities:** - **Executional Excellence:** You have the organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, high sense of responsibility, and general skill set to take on a wide range of high-priority projects. You are dependable and always deliver quality work. - **Creative Problem Solver:** You have a propensity to think strategically, logically, and outside the box to solve problems for the business and customers. - **Resilient:** You are open to objective feedback and view mistakes as a learning mechanism. - **Hard Working:** You aren't afraid of a tough deadline. - **Meticulous:** You are highly structured, disciplined, and take pride in your work, setting and executing on timely project deliverables with the roadmap to get there. - **Knowledgeable:** You understand and leverage best-of-breed software to help manage the end-to-end process efficiently. - **Team Player:** You put team success and outcomes first and have a high degree of personal character - everyone enjoys working with you. **Additional Capabilities:** - Emotional intelligence and the ability to establish strong and trusting relationships with colleagues. - Designing or leading organizational change management around new goals, priorities, team changes, or projects. - High initiative, self-starting capabilities; the demonstrated ability to identify and seize opportunities for impact in messy, uncertain contexts without direction or oversight. - Facilitation skills: you design thoughtful meeting processes/agendas and are skilled at chairing or facilitating meetings or sessions that make progress on high-stakes discussions with senior stakeholders. **Skills & Requirements:** - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or Accounting with at least ten (10) years of experience in General Ledger Accounting, including team leadership responsibilities. - Experience working with a U.S.-based firm and engaging with U.S.-based stakeholders; experience in Global Capability Centers is a plus. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite of products, with advanced knowledge of Excel. - Ability to think strategically, synthesize the most complex business/financial data, and develop innovative solutions. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments and work well under pressure. - Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, lead, motivate, and influence others to support corporate goals and objectives. - Creative and innovative - must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities and resources. - Bonus Skills - knowledge of Yardi, Sales Force, and the Real Estate vertical all a huge plus. **Why Join Us ** - **Impact:** Be a part of a fast-growing company transforming the real estate industry. - **Collaboration:** Work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative and dynamic environment, both in the U.S. and Costa Rica. - **Growth:** Gain exposure to various aspects of property management and opportunities for professional development. - **Culture:** Thrive in a supportive culture that values innovation, continuous improvement, and teamwork. *Please note the working shift/arrangement: US Shift (4:30 PM - 1:30 AM IST), Flexible - Hybrid working model. Location: Mumbai.*,