Senior Accountant, Real Estate Transactions

About Homeward

Homeward aims to take the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that buyers and sellers use to get certainty and convenience in the real estate market. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first, real estate start-up that partners with agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move — no matter the market. We offer bundled services across offers, Mortgage, and Title, making buying a home more seamless. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer four services -- Buy with Cash, Buy Before You Sell, Sell Before You List, and Backed by Cash, in the 7 states we serve -- Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.

As a remote company, we anchor to our three core values as a collective way to care for each other, represent our work, and reinforce our mission to make homebuying more accessible for all. Those are: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them

About the opportunity

Homeward is looking for a Senior Accountant to be the primary reviewer of Homeward’s accounting entries and reconciliation by project (home purchases and home sales), to evaluate the balance sheet and income statement for each of the homes, and to communicate frequently and timely with the Homeward Transactions team to ensure cross-functional alignment. This role will report to an Accounting Manager and will supervise two accounting associates. This role will require the use of skills in high attention to detail, organization, and timely and frequent communication. This role will be fast-paced, exciting, and collaborative, and requires someone who enjoys staying busy while also remaining calm and friendly with others during the demands of Homeward’s high-growth business.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role you will be:

• Efficiently reviewing all home purchase and home sale statements on a daily to weekly cadence, and reconcile to the corresponding accounting entries for recording accuracy and completeness.
• Reviewing the Balance Sheet report and Income Statement report in Netsuite, for each project (home sale), to ensure all items are expensed accurately and completely upon the closing of the project. Help make corrections to the entries for the project, in order to keep the balance sheet and income statement clean for each project.
• Asking questions from various accounting team members, your supervisor, or other teams/departments for any information deemed missing, or unclear.
• Investigating discrepancies of accounting entries by creating searches and reports in Netsuite, and/or exporting to analyze accounting transaction details with Excel, in order to identify and solve discrepancies.
• Monitoring daily progress of the Homeward Transaction team (non-accounting team that helps close the home sale transactions) to be sure all project/home data is populated timely in the system in order for the accounting team to review and reconcile. 
• Proactively and consistently provide feedback and review comments to two associates who enter the home purchase and home sales transactions for each project. This is particularly important for identifying any errors or delays.
• Consistently respond to questions via email or slack messenger actively and timely.
• Other accounting team projects as necessary, which will require the same skills outlined below.

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years experience with accounting transactions and reports.
• Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work; detail-oriented.
• Excellent timeliness, responsiveness, and interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Organizational skills to be able to easily track multiple tasks, questions, and responses.
• Demonstrated the ability to calmly manage multiple requests, and prioritize them well while maintaining a great attitude during tight deadlines.
• Solution-oriented approach to research and problem-solving, preferring to place focus on the best way to solve problems rather than focusing only on the problems themselves
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel: the ability to do vlookups, sumifs, pivot tables, sort and filter well, display information concisely and with high readability. You have consistently demonstrated the ability to use excel effectively to assist in analyzing data.
• Prior experience in real estate transactions is highly preferred (familiarity with a HUD/closing disclosure). 
• Prior experience with working for a company with many subsidiaries would be preferred. 
• Experience working with multiple subsidiaries is highly preferred.
• A Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or finance or equivalent is preferred
• Experience with Netsuite is preferred.

Pay and benefits

• Compensation range: $80,000 - $90,000 Base
• Remote-first environment (our Headquarters are in Austin, TX, come visit!)
• Company-wide bonus 
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee 
• 401(k) employer contribution match 
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits here.