Corporate Controller - Real Estate Development

CORPORATE CONTROLLER
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

📍 Location: Dallas, TX
🏢 Department: Accounting
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time | Hybrid (3 days in-office/2 days remote)


Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Corporate Controller to lead and oversee the corporate accounting function of a growing real estate development company.

This hybrid role (three days in-office, two days remote) will report to the EVP, Accounting and will lead the corporate accounting team, including two Senior Corporate Accountants, providing hands-on leadership across corporate accounting, family office and platform reporting, cash management, and compliance for the corporate entities and real estate development platforms.

This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who can build, coach, and motivate a high-performing team of varied personalities and working styles, while operating with accuracy, ownership, and sound judgment in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.


Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop the corporate accounting team, including two Senior Corporate Accountants, fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
• Motivate and manage a team of varied personalities and working styles, tailoring coaching, feedback, and communication to bring out the best in each team member.
• Set clear priorities, delegate effectively, and hold the team accountable to deadlines and quality standards during peak close, audit, and reporting cycles.
• Recruit, train, and evaluate accounting personnel; identify development opportunities and support succession planning.

• Direct all corporate accounting operations, including month-end and year-end close, general ledger integrity, and consolidated financial statement preparation across corporate entities.
• Review and approve financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) by entity and on a consolidated basis for executive leadership, ownership, and investor partners.
• Review tax basis financials for corporate operating entities.
• Direct the annual budgeting process and long-range forecasting across corporate entities, projects, and investments.
• Oversee accounts receivable, including billing and collections, and monthly payroll billing for related companies.
• Oversee accounts payable as it relates to corporate entities.
• Prepare and review tax packages for all corporate entities.

• Review upper-tier financials and capital roll-forward schedules.
• Oversee preparation and distribution of Guarantor Financials semiannually.

• Oversee cash management and liquidity across all corporate entities, partnering with the Director of Treasury, who oversees the Accounts Payable team, on day-to-day treasury and disbursement operations.
• Direct cash flow forecasting and capital planning, including coordination of capital calls, distributions, draws, and vendor/lender payments.
• Prepare cash reconciliation monthly for the CFO.

• Oversee quarterly overhead allocations.
• Coordinate with Accounting VPs to provide P&L reports to Platform Leaders.

• Lead annual financial statement audits and any tax, lender, or investor-driven audits; serve as primary point of contact for external auditors in the future if needed.

• Direct the annual budgeting process and long-range forecasting across corporate entities, projects, and investments.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate financial risks, funding gaps, and variances to executive leadership in a timely manner.

• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and workflows for the corporate accounting group.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• Active CPA license required.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years in a Controller or senior accounting leadership role, ideally within real estate development, private equity real estate, investment management, and/or public accounting.
• Strong financial reporting skills, with the ability to prepare clear, accurate reporting packages for executive leadership, ownership, and investor partners.
• Proven experience directly managing, developing, and motivating an accounting team.
• Knowledge of GAAP, partnership/fund accounting, capital stacks, distributions, and real estate development and job cost accounting is a plus, though not required.
• Experience leading external audits, banking relationships, and investor/lender reporting.
• Experience managing accounting across multiple entities, bank accounts, and capital structures.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and other Microsoft Office applications; strong experience with Yardi required (Yardi Investment Accounting Module experience a plus). Experience with QuickBooks preferred.
• Experience with aircraft accounting a plus.
• Hands-on leader who can operate strategically with executive leadership while staying close enough to the details to review and validate the team's work.

Skills & Competencies:

• Proven people-leader who can motivate, coach, and get the best out of a team with varied personalities, communication styles, and experience levels.
• Emotional intelligence and sound judgment in managing team dynamics, delivering feedback, and resolving conflict constructively.
• Adaptability—adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and is able to deal with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
• Self-starter; thrives in dynamic and entrepreneurial environments.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a results-driven approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present effectively and with confidence to executive leadership, owners, equity partners, auditors, and lenders.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority workstreams simultaneously while maintaining accuracy under deadline pressure.
• Lifelong learner who applies expertise with confidence and defends analysis clearly and persuasively to investment committees and ownership.

Why Join Provident?

• People-First, Family-First Culture
• Industry-leading developer with strong financial backing.
• Collaborative, high-performance culture that values innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

Since its inception in 1991, Provident has developed over $10 Billion of real estate projects.  We are disciplined and focused on executing deals that offer the best strategy for Provident and our investor partners. With over three decades of experience with opportunistic land development and vertical development in various key U.S. markets, our company thrives on an entrepreneurial spirit and an excellent track record of success.

Over the past 30+ years, Provident has executed a diversified real estate investment and development platform. Currently, the $7.5 billion portfolio includes product types such as multi-family, industrial, master-planned communities, hospitality, retail, office, mixed-use, and data centers across the United States.

Under the leadership of Leon Backes and Jay Hawes, Provident is a respected, well-capitalized investment firm, that has thrived through three decades and multiple market cycles with foresight, depth of experience, and a unique ability to adapt to shifting demands, market trends, and challenging economic cycles. Provident is in constant pursuit of flexibility, innovation, and professionalism in its operations and investments. By maintaining a streamlined decision-making process, Provident is able to capitalize on fast-moving opportunities and rapidly adjust to dynamic market forces.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive base plus bonus, and the unique ability to invest in the Provident Employee Fund or participate in Provident's Employee Profit Sharing program
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Company-Provided Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401k with company match
• 529 College Savings Plan
• 3 Weeks PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Maternity/Paternity Leave

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