Senior Staff Accountant and Analyst at AAA Storage

About Us

JMA Eagles Nest LLC dba AAA Storage is a dynamic real estate development and management firm with a growing footprint across Texas, Florida and the Carolinas. We specialize in the development and management of self-storage facilities and business park projects. We are looking for a driven, detail-oriented person who will work with both the accounting and finance teams. This role is primarily remote, although it does require monthly in person meetings in Davidson NC. This role will be critical to our growth as we continue to add more sites and raise capital for future funds.

The Role

Reporting directly to the Controller, the Senior Staff Accountant Analyst will play a critical role in managing our multi-entity accounting operations. This is a uniquely structured hybrid role consisting of 70% core accounting functions and 30% financial modeling and analysis. You will be hands-on in the day-to-day financial management of our real estate funds, navigating the specific complexities of construction and property development accounting. Additionally, you will support strategic initiatives by modeling capital funding and assisting with high-level financial analysis. This role requires someone willing to go the extra mile to make sure our accounting is accurate and on-time.

Key Responsibilities

Core Accounting Operations (70%)

• Multi-Entity Management: Execute month-end and year-end close processes across multiple LLCs and property funds, ensuring accurate and timely intercompany reconciliations.
• Real Estate & Construction Accounting: Handle complex, industry-specific financial tasks including job costing, expense allocations, and inter-company transactions.
• Systems & Data Management: Operate daily within cloud-based accounting platforms (QuickBooks / Intuit Enterprise Suite) and assist in the accurate migration and mapping of historical financial data.
• Team Support: Assist the existing team in preparing financial statements, preparing journal entries, bank reconciliation, and tracking AP/AR. This role will be cross trained on all team member tasks and will be expected to serve as backup for the rest of the team as well as assisting the assistant controller and other senior accountant with their tasks.

Finance & Modeling (30%)

• Model Maintenance & Quality Control: Serve as the link between the accounting close and the company's financial models. Each month, refresh the models with closed actuals, advance reporting and balance sheet dates, and perform recurring upkeep. Act as the quality control checkpoint: confirm the balance sheet ties out, diagnose discrepancies between the models and the underlying accounting, and either correct the model or route accounting issues to the right team member. Sitting between both functions, this work serves as a quality control check on the models and the accounting at once.
• Model Build Support & Review: During new fund build-outs, provide an accounting-informed review of how the models are constructed, validating that the balance sheet mechanics and actuals integration hold up against the forecast. The underlying forecasting assumptions and inputs are owned by the executive and fund finance teams.

Qualifications

• Experience: 2 to 5 years of progressive accounting experience, with direct exposure to financial modeling, forecasting, or FP&A tasks.
• Industry Knowledge: Proven experience in real estate, construction, property development or property management accounting is highly preferred. Knowledge of the self-storage and light industrial is major advantage.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in cloud-based accounting software is required. Strong experience with QuickBooks or Intuit Enterprise Suite is highly advantageous. Role requires heavy use of Excel, specifically for building and maintaining financial models. Experience with Artificial Intelligence in a work context is advantageous.
• Analytical Ability: Strong capability to manage multi-entity structures, intercompany transactions, and complex reconciliations.
• Work Style: Self-motivated and highly organized, with the ability to work independently and with a high level of integrity in a remote environment while maintaining strong communication with the rest of the team.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: Starting at $70,000, commensurate with experience.
• Bonus: Performance-based bonus structure.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with a 3% company match.
• Healthcare: Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision insurance plans.
• Paid Time Off: 3 weeks of PTO to support a healthy work-life balance.