About The Role:

CBRE’s Investment Accounting & Reporting Solutions group is seeking an Assistant Property Accounting Controller to join a collaborative team focused supporting a portfolio of clients. This role is responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial accounting, reporting, and analysis of fund operations.

What You'll Do:

• Complete and oversee advanced level accounting transactions in pre aration of client financial statement packages.
• Create and post journal entries.
• Ensure all expenses, receipts, owner's distributions, funding requests and other transactions for the accounting period have been accurately posted.
• Generate and review financial packages for accuracy and comprehensive reporting. Prepare packages on a schedule to ensure timely delivery to the client and other management teams.
• Adhere to Client Accounting Policies and Procedures (CAPP) to ensure internal and external reporting requirements are consistently met.
• Review and audit funding and payment requests for accuracy, documentation and authorization in accordance with established operating procedures.
• Respond to and resolve issues and requests from management teams and clients regarding various accounting issues and reports, including Profit and Loss statements.
• Research open accounting issues and recognizes potential issues and/or conflicts so corrective action can intercept and minimize issues.
• Create or review complex property budgets and forecasting for assigned property portfolios.
• Participate in new property and client transitions, and client audit requests.
• Communicate requests for additional services from clients and the field to senior management and understands the scope of accounting services for the properties in portfolio.
• May oversee the completion of projects including independent preparation and review of CAM (Common Area Maintenance) reconciliations, purchase/sale proration, lease abstract analysis, property software setups, and opening/closing entry generations.
• Coordinate work with other team members within single point-of-contact (SPOC) guidelines.
• Troubleshoot issues to ensure internal and external requests are handled timely, accurately, and with a focus on customer service.  
• Coach junior staff on an informal basis. 
• Support internal and external audits, providing required documentation and explanations.
• Ensure adherence to CBRE’s IA&R standards, SOX compliance (if applicable), and client‑specific policies.
• Oversee workload planning, review work product, and provide ongoing training to ensure high performance and technical accuracy.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, process standardization, and operational efficiency.
• Drive improvements in accounting procedures, reporting automation, and workflow efficiencies.
• Support onboarding of new clients and transition of new scopes of work.