What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Homeward?
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
At Homeward, the Staff Accountant plays a critical role in entering and reconciling 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 and others on the accounting team to ensure cross-functional alignment. This role will report to an Accounting Senior Accountant. 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.
Responsibilities Include:
Value-Driven Employee Experience
THE GOLDEN RULE. It's simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we're dealing with colleagues or customers, we don't prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.
ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers' experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.
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
At Homeward, the Staff Accountant plays a critical role in entering and reconciling 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 and others on the accounting team to ensure cross-functional alignment. This role will report to an Accounting Senior Accountant. 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.
Responsibilities Include:
- Entering and reviewing real estate transaction entries into Netsuite Accounting System.
- Reconciling real estate transactions between Salesforce and Netsuite.
- Exporting details into Excel to analyze and compare data in order to find and solve discrepancies.
- Investigating discrepancies of real estate transaction entries by following up with the operations team for more information and supporting documents.
- Frequently comparing data between multiple systems and sources.
- Communicating frequently and timely with others on the accounting team, providing additional insight in the real estate transaction entries, or responding to inquiries and assisting with various accounting tasks.
- Help advise on banking transactions (deposits and payments) related to the real estate transactions being monitored in this role.
- As needed, assist in other accounting tasks and month-end close financial reporting and reconciliations.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- 2 years working experience in Accounting.
- A love for collaborating with others.
- Ability to communicate frequently, timely, and effectively with multiple individuals and teams.
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude and professionalism under pressure.
- Great organizational skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Excel and/or Google Sheets, including the basic formulas for analysis.
- Experience responding daily to numerous emails, questions, or messages from other team members.
- Experience with Netsuite is preferred, but not required.
- Experience with property management and real estate is preferred, but not required.
- Compensation range: $63,000 - $70,000 Base Salary, paid hourly
- 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
Value-Driven Employee Experience
THE GOLDEN RULE. It's simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we're dealing with colleagues or customers, we don't prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.
ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers' experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.
Salary : $63,000 - $70,000
