What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Manager, Lending position at Starwood Property Trust?
Job Summary:
The Accounting Manager is primarily responsible for the accounting and reporting of Starwood Property Trust Commercial Lending segment. The Accounting Manager will work closely with the team to coordinate review or preparation of monthly journal entries, and related reconciliations of rollforward reports and account reconciliations. The Accounting Manager will be involved with monthly reporting including explaining Actual to Prior Month and Plan variances, plus the preparation of quarter and year-end financial schedules and footnote disclosures. Strict attention to detail is critical as is meeting department deadlines.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise and review the preparation of all accounting entries related to assigned areas, ensuring accounting is consistent with company policies and GAAP (plus updating of company policies for areas of responsibility)
- Review loan agreements for appropriate GAAP accounting, reporting and servicing, including the loan interest calculations and various fee calculations
- Board loans within the Loan Accounting System and Loan Servicing Module, review monthly reports and reconciliations amongst the sub-systems with the general ledger
- Work closely with the Portfolio Management and Loan Servicing teams on ensuring loan collections and quarterly reporting
- Work closely with Treasury Department to ensure timely and accurate reporting of interest accruals on repo facilities and prepare monthly expense analytics
- Prepare monthly derivative entries and track foreign currency rate changes
- Prepare and review the monthly variance explanations for significant fluctuations from Actual to Prior Period and Plan, as used in our Flash meetings
- Prepare journal entries and monthly reporting package of Distributable Earnings (“DE”)
- Present at the monthly DE and Flash meetings
- Prepare and review quarterly and year-end financial schedules and footnotes, ensuring reporting requirements are submitted timely and accurately
- Make recommendations to improve existing processes
- Assist with special projects/requests as necessary
Education and Experience:
- Masters / Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- CPA designation mandatory
- 5 years of Accounting experience with 4-5 years in Big 4 Public accounting firm
Knowledge and Skills:
- Solid understanding and ability to apply U.S. GAAP (financial services preferred)
- Must be detail oriented with strong analytical and communication skills
- Skilled in MS Excel and MS Word
- PeopleSoft experience a plus
