Associate - 6439139

Job Description

Job Duties: Associate with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Dallas, Texas. Conduct accounting and financial reporting for a wide range of commercial, multi-family, retail, industrial, and student housing investment entities. Review monthly activity for assets and prepare financial reports and statements for investors, lenders, and other users of the financials. Review and analyze legal entity and loan agreements to handle technical accounting issues, including promote calculations, straight-line rent accounts receivables, and leases. Work with the team to provide client documents to auditors for annual audit requests. Process payments for various legal entities. Work with deal teams to gather legal documents, record journal entries associated with new acquisitions, reconcile purchase price allocation, and help ensure "books and records" sections of legal agreements are in compliance. Perform accounting consolidations of portfolios with various legal entities. Complete ad hoc requests for entity financial data utilizing Excel, Yardi, JDEdwards, and GL Company/Hubble applications.

Job Requirements: Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in accounting or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with: granular, entry-based accounting including preparing and/or reviewing journal entries, reconciling mapping errors, closing procedures, and financial statement preparation; deriving ad hoc reporting required by end-users varying from traditional financial reporting, based on gathered financial data; navigating multiple General Ledger and Financial Reporting platforms, including, JDEdwards, Hubble, and Yardi including experience importing information from outside systems, as well as preparing output to end-user systems; exhibiting proficiency with MS OFFICE and ACROBAT suites, including Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Adobe; coordinating communication among separate groups to bring together tax, financial reporting, operations, treasury, and deal team members; and increasing efficiencies for closing procedures and preparing financial statement reporting. Must have one (1) year of experience with: researching and applying GAAP related to financial reporting for investments, including to areas related to revenue recognition, fixed assets, consolidation accounting, loan and interest accounting, as well as other relevant areas of accounting, including Straight line rents, accrual, expense, income and expense matching, construction accounting, and CAM (common area maintenance) on commercial deals; deriving reporting requirements and accounting expectations in deal documents, including entity agreements and loan documents, to support financial reporting requirements to investors, lenders, and regulators; and coordinating with auditors to deliver client documents related to audit including supporting documentation and researching and answering questions related to the platform.

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