Finance Manager

Position: Finance Manager

Location: Great Neck, NY (Fully In-Office)

Salary: $120k - $140k

Growing Residential Real Estate Organization Seeks A New Finance Manager to Join Their Team

Responsibilities
• Oversee financial planning, reporting, investment analysis, accounting operations, and project-level financial management across the company's real estate portfolio and development projects.
• Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, financial reporting, construction project accounting, and operational performance monitoring, while supporting executive leadership with strategic financial insights and decision-making support.
• Lead the preparation and management of corporate budgets, financial plans, and cash flow projections.
• Develop financial forecasts and monitor company-wide financial performance.
• Manage project budgets, timelines, and long-term financial projections for development projects.
• Allocate budgets across real estate functions including research, appraisal, development, marketing, and sales.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting processes for stabilized properties and active construction projects, including annual operating budgets, reforecasts, sensitivity analyses, and long-term investment modeling to support strategic decision-making and capital planning.
• Prepare and consolidate financial statements in compliance with regulatory and industry standards.
• Establish and maintain internal financial controls, accounting procedures, and audit systems.
• Perform detailed monthly and quarterly review and analysis of property-level financials, including variance analysis against budget and prior periods, cash flow tracking, and operating performance metrics.
• Prepare and post complex journal entries related to revenue recognition, intercompany allocations, depreciation, lease accounting and capital expenditures.
• Oversee and review monthly bank reconciliations across numerous operating, escrow, and construction accounts, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Navigate and maintain organizational structure in a complex, multi-entity environment including preparation of intercompany entries, eliminations, and reconciliations.
• Conduct and oversee financial modeling and investment analysis for real estate projects.
• Evaluate project feasibility, return projections, and risk exposure.
• Support financing activities including lender reporting and capital planning.
• Monitor project cash flow, capital deployment, and overall investment performance.
• Assist and coordinate 1031 Like-Kind Exchange transactions for property acquisitions and dispositions, including timeline management, coordination with qualified intermediaries, tracking exchange proceeds, and supporting tax advisors with reporting requirements.
• Oversee accounting operations, treasury management & financial reporting processes.

• Manage Audit & Tax Planning, tax compliance coordinating with external partners, lenders & financial institutions.


Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred

• CPA, MBA or CTP designation a plus.

• 5+ years of real estate finance experience (preferably in construction, engineering/development) required
• 3+ years with QuickBooks Desktop or Online software a plus!
• Bilingual (Mandarin/Chinese) highly desired