Senior Associate Accountant - Real Estate

Senior Associate Accountant - Real Estate

At Mahoney, we have a passion for precision by going beyond completing necessary tasks to deliver financial peace of mind. Our Real Estate Solutions Team supports clients across the affordable housing and commercial sectors by providing specialized guidance tailored to their unique regulatory requirements. Our expertise spans Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Historic Tax Credits (HTC), and other complex real estate compliance needs. Through HUD audits, real estate taxation, tax planning, and ongoing tax management, we help clients navigate compliance complexities and achieve long-term financial stability.

Located just outside downtown St. Paul along the Mississippi River, Mahoney has been recognized multiple times by Accounting Today, the StarTribune, and the Twin Cities Business Magazine as a top workplace. Since 1989, we've provided comprehensive audit, tax, and consulting services for individuals, businesses, real estate developers, and nonprofit organizations.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Associate, you play a key role in delivering high-quality tax and accounting services by preparing partnership tax returns, supporting annual financial audit statements of real estate projects, and assisting with construction accounting needs. Additional responsibilities include the preparation of development cost certifications for LIHTC and HTC projects; ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strong documentation across all related work.

In this role, you'll continue developing your foundational Microsoft Excel capabilities with shortcuts, formulas, pivot tables, and other basic functionalities. These skills help organize and analyze property-level financial data, support basic data-driven calculations, and automate routine tasks such as data entry and report preparation. These are the building blocks to support the creation and management of financial statements, tax returns, and real estate-related reports. With increased experience, these tools help you work more effectively and boost production efficiency.

Great exposure to technical matters enables you to identify more complex tax or audit issues and assist in determining practical, well-supported solutions. You will begin to gather information, managing timelines for assigned work, and reviewing staff workpapers to ensure conclusions are clear, complete, and property supported.

Client relationships strengthen through their insights, prompt responses, and a solution-focused approach that helps move engagements forward. Working closely with clients and colleagues, you help deliver meaningful, reliable results while looking for ways to improve processes and enhance service quality. As expertise deepens, you continue to invest in your own development through coaching, feedback, and ongoing technical development that elevates analytical capabilities and builds emerging leadership skills.

Additional work hours are required from January through April 15th.

Required Education & Skills

• Proven ability to perform the core duties outlined above
• Associate's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree
• Background in public accounting or a client-focused environment

Preferred Education & Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree
• Active CPA certification or working toward completion
• Experience with Real Estate clients and/or nonprofit organization
• Prior experience with Engagement Manager, CCH ProSystem fx, and CCH Axcess

Our leadership embraces a culture of curiosity, adaptability, and continuous growth. We firmly believe that this mindset is essential for providing exceptional service to our clients and making a positive impact on our community. We are committed to developing every employee to unlock their true potential, and our close-knit environment fosters teamwork while building strong internal relationships.

Mahoney offers a range of unique benefits to our staff. These include firm contributions to Health Savings Accounts, CPA reimbursement and bonus program, annual in-house CPE training, flexible and hybrid work arrangements, fun firm/team events, free onsite parking, and access to our in-house fitness center.

Our compensation package includes a competitive base salary ranging from $77,000 to $87,000. You will be eligible for annual bonuses and profit-sharing with immediate vesting, based on individual performance and the firm's overall success.

Mahoney does not accept resumes from third-party vendors.