Assistant Controller, Real Estate

Assistant Controller – Real Estate (Clayton, MO)

A family-owned real estate private equity firm approaching its 100th year is adding an Assistant Controller to its Clayton headquarters. The firm manages roughly $1.5 billion in Class A multifamily properties across the Midwest and Sun Belt, owns and operates every asset it buys, and is known for people who stay for decades. This is a broad, visible role for a CPA who wants to keep learning, work directly with senior leadership and grow into a larger seat over time.

What you'll do

• Own accounting and financial reporting across a large, complex structure of real estate entities that roll up to the firm's investment funds.
• Support month-end and year-end close: review general ledger activity, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Handle intercompany activity, allocations and accounting for multi-tier ownership structures.
• Oversee property-level accounting with the property teams: rental income, operating expenses, capital expenditures, debt, fixed assets and depreciation.
• Account for acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings and capital improvements.
• Serve as a key liaison to the outside CPA firm on audits, partnership tax returns and investor K-1s.
• Take on responsibilities beyond core accounting, including the firm's insurance program and certain property-level legal matters.
• Assist the Controller with consolidated reporting, analysis and special projects, and recommend process and system improvements.
• Over time, grow into leading the property accounting team.

Required

• CPA (the license need not be active).
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Public accounting experience (Big Four not required).
• Real estate accounting exposure, either in industry or serving real estate clients in public accounting.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, consolidations and multi-entity accounting.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Curiosity and a genuine desire to learn new areas.

Preferred

• 5–7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including some time in industry after public accounting.
• Multifamily real estate experience.
• Partnership, fund or complex ownership structure accounting, including intercompany.
• Yardi experience.
• Experience with acquisitions, dispositions, financing and investor reporting.

Why this role

• A stable, long-tenured company where leadership makes a point of moving people into new areas.
• Broad scope and direct access to the Controller and ownership.
• Room to grow into a decision-making role; title is flexible for a more senior candidate.
• Full-time, in-office role at the Clayton headquarters.

Compensation: $100,000–$130,000 base, with flexibility for the right experience.