What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant, Fund Accounting position at Boston Financial?
Purpose And Job Summary
Boston Financial, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, provides innovative capital solutions for affordable housing developers and offers institutional investors the opportunity to achieve compelling risk-adjusted returns while delivering meaningful social impact. We manage the largest syndicated Low Income Housing Tax Credit portfolio in the country, and maintain a platform dedicated to the preservation of existing affordable housing. Our business is built on a proven investment track record, long-term client relationships, and a commitment to housing solutions. Today, Boston Financial is recognized as a national leader in affordable housing finance and asset management.
This role is responsible for supporting the Boston Financial (BF) Fund Accounting Team in preparing and maintaining quarterly and annual financial reports, various reconciliations, and annual tax return schedules of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Funds.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees and offer a quality, competitive benefits package that provides valuable healthcare and financial protection for our workforce, while emphasizing a healthy work/life balance.
You Time
We want you to have the time needed to recharge and manage life with our competitive vacation policy, floating personal holidays, extensive leave options, our annual observed holidays, and more.
Family Care
Every family has a different journey and ORIX USA Group is proud to offer extensive benefit programs such as: infertility coverage, adoption support, child and elder care, fully paid maternity, and generous parental leave benefits to help you and your families along the way.
Flexible Work Arrangements
ORIX associates enjoy the advantages of our hybrid working model with a 3 day in-office minimum requirement.
Boston Financial Investment Management, LP and its parent company, ORIX USA, is an equal opportunity employer, providing equal employment opportunities (EEO), and is committed to diversifying its workforce. All employees and applicants for employment will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
Company: Boston Financial
Boston Financial, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, provides innovative capital solutions for affordable housing developers and offers institutional investors the opportunity to achieve compelling risk-adjusted returns while delivering meaningful social impact. We manage the largest syndicated Low Income Housing Tax Credit portfolio in the country, and maintain a platform dedicated to the preservation of existing affordable housing. Our business is built on a proven investment track record, long-term client relationships, and a commitment to housing solutions. Today, Boston Financial is recognized as a national leader in affordable housing finance and asset management.
This role is responsible for supporting the Boston Financial (BF) Fund Accounting Team in preparing and maintaining quarterly and annual financial reports, various reconciliations, and annual tax return schedules of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Funds.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Prepares quarterly journal entries in conjunction with the quarterly Fund financial reporting process.
- Prepares quarterly and annual Fund financial statements and supporting workpapers.
- Interacts directly with Fund auditors to handle open items on assigned group of Funds.
- Assists BF’s Asset Managers and Fund Managers in resolving audit issues that arise on Lower-Tier property partnerships and resolution of investor accounting questions with guidance from more experienced team members.
- Prepares annual Fund tax trial balances and tax return supporting schedules.
- Prepares various quarterly reconciliations.
- Performs ad hoc requests and projects as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline, required
- Knowledge of GAAP required.
- Ability to learn, and effectively use and deploy, proprietary databases, applications, and related reporting tools, as required
- Experience using Epicor or other accounting software, preferred
- 2-3 years of direct experience in accounting/finance field, preferred
- Experience with financial statement preparation, preferred
- Ability to actively engage with other team members as part of a collaborative environment.
- Ability to produce clear and effective communications for a variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to organize, prioritize assignments, and to meet established deadlines.
- Intermediate MS Excel skills with the ability to clean and manage data sets; group data appropriately; create lookups and pivot tables; create, modify, and format charts; filter data and manage filtered lists; perform multiple sorting; use basic logical functions (VLOOKUP, IF, IS, etc.)
- Basic to Intermediate MSWord skills with the ability to create, edit, and save documents; perform searches; format documents; create and edit tables; insert graphics and hyperlinks
We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees and offer a quality, competitive benefits package that provides valuable healthcare and financial protection for our workforce, while emphasizing a healthy work/life balance.
You Time
We want you to have the time needed to recharge and manage life with our competitive vacation policy, floating personal holidays, extensive leave options, our annual observed holidays, and more.
Family Care
Every family has a different journey and ORIX USA Group is proud to offer extensive benefit programs such as: infertility coverage, adoption support, child and elder care, fully paid maternity, and generous parental leave benefits to help you and your families along the way.
Flexible Work Arrangements
ORIX associates enjoy the advantages of our hybrid working model with a 3 day in-office minimum requirement.
Boston Financial Investment Management, LP and its parent company, ORIX USA, is an equal opportunity employer, providing equal employment opportunities (EEO), and is committed to diversifying its workforce. All employees and applicants for employment will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
Company: Boston Financial
