Senior Property Accountant
Vaco LLC
La Jolla, CA
Title: Senior Property Accountant
Company: Privately Held Real Estate Firm
Salary: $90K - $120K
Location: San Diego, 5 days onsite
Role Overview
A growing real estate ownership group is seeking a Senior Property Accountant to take the lead on the financial operations of a diverse commercial portfolio. This position is designed for an accounting professional who is comfortable owning the full accounting cycle, navigating complex lease structures, and working with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate brings advanced Yardi proficiency, strong analytical instincts, and a professional approach to tenant and operational support.
Primary Responsibilities
Portfolio Accounting & Reporting
- Manage day-to-day and month-end accounting for a multi-entity, multi?property commercial portfolio.
- Prepare monthly financial packages, ensuring accuracy across the general ledger, cash accounts, and supporting schedules.
- Perform reconciliations, accruals, and journal entries while maintaining consistency with internal accounting standards and GAAP.
- Review financial performance each month and produce narrative analysis explaining variances in revenue, expenses, and operating metrics.
- Handle routine treasury-related tasks, including monitoring liquidity, preparing funding movements, and managing online banking permissions.
Lease Administration & Expense Recovery
- Maintain and update all lease information in Yardi, including new agreements, amendments, rent changes, and critical date tracking.
- Process recurring rent, adjustments, and contractual escalations.
- Administer tenant sales reporting and calculate percentage rent obligations when applicable.
- Complete annual reconciliations for recoverable expenses, ensuring proper classification of operating, capital, and non-billable items.
AP Oversight & Capital Tracking
- Supervise the invoice workflow, ensuring each charge is properly coded and paid within established timelines.
- Track capital spending, tenant improvement commitments, and project-related costs in coordination with internal teams.
- Monitor property tax schedules and ensure all required remittances are made on time.
Tenant Interaction & Receivables Management
- Serve as an internal resource for tenant billing questions, ledger reviews, and account clarification.
- Process incoming payments and maintain an accurate receivables aging.
- Manage occasional manual check receipts and exceptions-based payment activity.
Required Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (CPA or progress toward designation is a plus).
- At least five years of progressive accounting experience within commercial real estate.
- Prior responsibility for a sizable portfolio of income?producing assets.
Technical Expertise
- High-level proficiency with Yardi Voyager (7S or 8), including lease setup, reporting, and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of NNN leasing structures, retail recovery concepts, and percentage rent billing.
- Advanced Excel capabilities for reconciliation, analysis, and ad hoc reporting.
Professional Strengths
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to independently prioritize deadlines.
- Clear and professional communication skills in both written and verbal formats.
- Self?motivated, dependable, and comfortable within a collaborative but low?supervision office environment.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
HR@vaco.com
.Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.