Come join our small family-owned business located in Issaquah!

As a fast-paced real estate/development office with a large, diverse portfolio of assets, we are looking for an experienced Assistant Controller to join our accounting team. Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8 to 5 p.m. Remote work may be available on a varying basis, with required days in the office on a weekly basis. Why Join Our Company?

• We have a great team.
• We’ve been in business for almost 70 years, yet we remain innovative and focus on continual process improvement.
• Our mission is to help businesses succeed, families belong, and the community prosper.
• Our customers are our reason for being.

What Will the Assistant Controller Do?As a key position in the company and partner to the VP for Accounting, responsibilities include preparing financial reports, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, preparing B&O tax returns, assisting with audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned and necessary. This position also models by example and helps provide mentoring and support to the accounting team. Rowley Properties’ accounting is quite complex with its multiple-entities, brokerage, estate and asset management planning and broad array of properties owned and leased, and number of customers supported. This is an exempt role with no supervisory responsibility at this time. What are the General Areas of Responsibility?

• General Ledger: Daily review of invoices, monitoring of aging reports, producing monthly financial statements, overseeing month end closing, analyzing, and auditing entries and adjusting entries.
• Budgeting & Finance: Coordinating and assisting with the annual budget process, assisting with cash flow projects, preparing for property valuations and with financial reporting for Board of Directors/Stockholder meetings.
• Banking & Mortgage: Overseeing bank balance reporting (daily), auditing tenant deposits, assisting with bi-monthly payroll processing and subsequent transfers. Preparing loan covenant reporting - Rent Rolls, Property P&Ls, DSCR and compliance certificates (quarterly). Reviewing monthly bank reconciliations (prepared by other accounting staff) and note receivable and payable schedule maintenance/ monthly interest accruals.
• Taxes: Preparing and filing local and state B&O taxes, assisting with year CPA-schedules and reporting, depreciation schedules, overseeing annual AP 1099s, preparing 1098 and 1099s for LLC and trusts and payroll-related taxes.
• Insurance & Compliance: Assisting with insurance accruals annually and renewal valuations/data gathering. Researching accounting issues for compliance. Assisting with identifying and implementation of process/systems improvements/enhancements and with the recommendation, preparation or updating of policies and procedures to maintain consistency and internal controls.
• Payroll: Submitting Payroll data to payroll/software provider and benefit providers semi-monthly and managing payroll data (enter new employee, manage deductions and employee information) and related processes.
• Property Management/Customer Service: Assisting the team with various items such as tenant application review/approvals, KPIs, and CAM Recs annually. As an accounting team member, where appropriate, provide support to the property management function and customers.
• General Accounting: Perform analysis of GL accounts and prepare reports as needed. Look for opportunities to streamline and improve processes.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Property management/development experience.
• Experience with multiple entities/under different legal umbrellas and intercompany transactions.
• Strong Excel skills (including Sumifs, lookups, and pivot tables) and experience.
• Experience with Spreadsheet Server is a plus.
• MRI experience is helpful, but not required.
• Experience with a SQL database.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Self-starter, ability to prioritize, deadline driven, and results oriented.
• Willingness to do whatever comes accounting’s way and desire to continually learn.
• Ability to wear multiple hats, organize/prioritize tasks, and direct projects.
• Ability to build strong working relationships and work efficiently across functions to resolve issues.
• Desire for a long tenure, commitment to helping grow a small business.
• Must possess the ability to follow verbal and written directions such as procedures.
• Must pass drug test, drivers record check, credit check, reference check, and criminal record check.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 to 10 years’ experience in accounting/finance.
• CPA (preferred, but not required).
• Small business experience.
• Job costing is a plus, but not required.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local taxes.
• Experience with financial reporting requirements.
• Experience reading and abstracting legal documents.
• Knowledge of real estate applicable GAAP pronouncements, helpful but not required.

A generous benefits package is provided.

Flexible work from home options available.