Senior Property Accountant

Senior Accountant

Chaska, MN

Job Description

The Senior Accountant prepares, analyzes, and reviews financial statements for multiple facilities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with regulatory and lender requirements. This role serves as a key financial partner to operations and leadership, providing insight into financial performance, risks, and opportunities. The Senior Accountant also leads critical processes such as month-end close, budgeting, lender reporting, and special projects while mentoring staff accountants and supporting a growing portfolio in the Senior living, healthcare, residential, and commercial property sectors.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly financial statements for assigned facilities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with regulatory and lender requirements.
• Analyze financial results and communicate key risks, trends, and opportunities to leadership in a clear and actionable manner.
• Oversee month-end close activities for assigned facilities, ensuring all entries, reconciliations, and adjustments are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Mentor, support, and review the work of staff accountants, providing guidance, feedback, and training to strengthen the teams capabilities.
• Review accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and bad debt reserves to ensure accuracy and identify areas of concern or improvement.
• Prepare semi-annual audited financial packages, including supporting schedules, footnotes, and management reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor lender reporting requirements and maintain ongoing debt covenant compliance, ensuring all reporting deadlines and standards are met.
• Serve as the primary financial contact for assigned facilities, providing guidance on reimbursement rates, revenue structures, staffing, and operational trends.
• Partner with operations and leadership teams to monitor financial performance, occupancy and census trends, billing, collections, and expense management.
• Lead the annual budgeting process for assigned facilities, collaborating with operational leaders to develop accurate forecasts and projections.

Essential Skills

• Four-year accounting degree or equivalent work experience in a property accounting field.
• 7+ years of related financial accounting experience.
• Strong full-cycle accounting experience, including month-end close, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
• Proficiency with full general ledger and accounting software.
• Demonstrated strength in reconciliation and consolidation across multiple entities or facilities.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with a management company or in public accounting is desirable.
• YARDI software experience is a plus.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chanhassen, MN.

The pay range for this position is $48.00 - $52.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Chanhassen,MN.

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 23, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.