Senior Accountant

Scott Residential Management Overview: Scott Residential Management and staff strive to be a premier provider of Collegiate Student Housing and Dining in the Nebraska area. Through excellence, professionalism, integrity, kindness and consistency, we strive to offer our guests the highest level of comfort, security, privacy and world-class service.

Role Summary: The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing complex accounting operations across multiple business entities, ensuring financial reporting accuracy, leading month / year end accounting close processes, and preparing financial reports. This role will involve some travel between work locations in the same city as business needs require. Up to 1-2 days of monthly travel may also be required to an additional office location approximately two hours away, generally completed as same-day trips without overnight stays.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES (other duties may be assigned):

Accounting Operations

• Assist with resident ledgers, including posting and refunding payments, and gaining a general knowledge of the housing systems.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for vendors, including onboarding, maintaining records (W-9s, payment terms), resolving discrepancies, and annual 1099 reporting.
• Ensure vendor payments comply with contract terms, approval thresholds, and internal controls.
• Manage the full accounts payable cycle, including invoice intake, coding, approval routing, and timely payment processing across all dorm properties and entities.
• Ensure expenses are accurately coded by property and ownership entity, maintaining proper financial segmentation.
• Develop and maintain consistent allocation methodologies for shared vendor costs.
• Coordinate with HR to ensure proper posting of payroll transactions, including appropriate allocation of costs across properties.

Financial Reporting

• Lead the month-end/year-end close activities, including reconciliations, accruals, and variance analysis, to ensure completion of assigned tasks, including identification and resolution of unusual items and issues in a timely manner.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly financial statements for the different ownership entities, including balance sheets, income statements, and supporting schedules.
• Ensure proper allocation of revenues, expenses, and intercompany activity across entities.
• Track and reconcile intercompany transactions between dorm entities and the parent company.
• Deliver clear, concise monthly reporting packages with commentary tailored to each entity's stakeholders.
• Assist in preparation of internal and external financial statements in compliance with GAAP and/or other regulatory requirements, including assisting with the annual financial statement audit and tax reporting.

Budget Management

• Work closely with the Finance Manager to provide financial information including annual budgeting and periodic forecasting for each dorm and entity. Monitor performance against budget and provide clear variance explanations and forward-looking insights.
• Manage and monitor cash flows across multiple entities, including forecasting liquidity needs and ensuring proper funding between entities where applicable.

Other Responsibilities

• Support communications and reporting for ownership groups and the parent company.
• Maintain best practices and strong internal controls within processes. Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and reporting automation.
• Provide financial analysis and supporting schedules for management, ownership groups, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Prepare and distribute periodic financial reports, metrics, and supporting analysis for management and ownership groups.
• Participate in finance and accounting projects, including process improvements, system enhancements, and reporting automation initiatives.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree required, with a preference for Accounting, Finance, or related field
• CPA, CMA certification and/or advanced degree preferred
• 3+ years of professional experience in accounting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to perform work with minimal supervision
• Experience with accounting systems preferred
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple entities

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• This position requires regular presence in the office and is not a remote opportunity.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

WORK ENVIRONMENT :
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is an office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels.


EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local law.

E-VERIFY:
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PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The work environment may have extended working hours, frequent time constraints, and shifting priorities, contributing to physical and mental stress. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.