Senior Accountant

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The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting accounting operations and financial reporting for assigned markets and corporate cost centers, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness across payroll, commissions, billings, cash activity, and month-end close.

Essential Duties

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Accounting Responsibilities

• Execute day-to-day accounting activities across markets and corporate functions, including billing, cash activity, payroll, allocations, and month-end close support.
• Review, update, and maintain payroll allocations, including posting payroll entries and calculating retroactive adjustments.
• Reconcile weekly, biweekly, and semi-monthly payroll and record related accruals, including bonus and incentive compensation.
• Prepare, coordinate, and record weekly and biweekly payroll billings tied to real estate service agreements.
• Prepare, coordinate, and record client invoices for all billable services and maintain billing schedules to ensure completeness and timeliness.
• Validate contract abstraction to ensure service terms, structures, and billing triggers are accurately captured.
• Coordinate and post cost center and HQ allocations across corporate departments.
• Create and coordinate earnest money deposit wires for pursuits.
• Prepare and complete balance sheet reconciliations, including accruals, prepaids, commissions payable, payroll, and other assigned accounts.
• Perform bank reconciliations for accounts within scope, including central disbursement accounts.
• Review expenditures for appropriate fixed asset classification and prepare depreciation and intangible amortization entries.
• Reconcile intercompany balances and resolve discrepancies.
• Support the review of monthly financial statements and analyze significant month-over-month, year-over-year, and budget-to-actual variances.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Collaboration & Business Partnership

• Partner with Finance and FP&A to support variance analysis and financial reporting.
• Review accounts receivable activity and communicate with finance teams on large outstanding balances or significant receipts.
• Respond to financial and operational data requests from Finance and FP&A.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or progress toward CPA .
• 3–6+ years of accounting experience, preferably in real estate services, brokerage, or professional services environments.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, revenue recognition, and accrual accounting.
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle ).
• Strong Excel and analytical skills.

Key Competencies

• High attention to detail and financial accuracy
• Strong organizational and deadline management skills
• Ability to interpret financial data and identify variances
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership mentality
• Effective communication and collaboration skills

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About Lincoln Property Company

Lincoln Property Company ("Lincoln") is one of the largest private real estate firms in the United States. Offering a fully integrated platform of real estate services and innovative solutions to owners, investors, lenders and occupiers, Lincoln supports the entire real estate lifecycle across asset types, including office, multifamily, life science, retail, industrial, data center, production studio, healthcare, government, universities, and mixed-use properties, throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. Lincoln's combined management and leasing portfolio on behalf of institutional clients includes more than 680 million square feet of commercial space. For more information, visit: www.lpc.com.

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