Job Description

About Homeward
Homeward takes the "what ifs" out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We're a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.
Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.
We're a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. .
About The Opportunity
Homeward is looking for an Accounting Manager to assist with intercompany eliminations, consolidation, financial reports and ERP management, financial analyses, audit, and tax compliance matters, lender management, cash management and reporting, and other corporate accounting. This role will report to the Controller. This role will require the use of skills in data analysis, effective communication with outside parties, advanced excel formula skills, high attention to detail, organization, and ability to research independently to form a position before asking for assistance. This role has the benefits of touching many areas of the business and accounting function, while learning directly from the Controller.
Responsibilities Include:

• Prepare and post monthly intercompany eliminations for numerous subsidiaries.
• Manage credit facility lender relationships, and reconcile monthly debt and interest reporting, following up on any discrepancies.
• Liaise with external auditors throughout the audit. Prepare audit reconciliations, respond to audit questions and requests. Help manage the PBC list and follow up with the rest of the accounting team as needed.
• Liaise with the external tax firm, manage and monitor tax payments and due dates, research and handle any tax notices or inquire with the tax firm when needed.
• Assist with cash management, cash planning, and cash reporting.
• Assist with banking and treasury administration.
• Serve as the ERP admin for Netsuite, and maintain the chart of accounts, departments, and subsidiaries.
• Assist with data and financial analyses, or other financial reviews as necessary.
• Assist with corporate insurance policies and renewal.
• Proactively ask questions of other teams or departments in the company, other accounting team members, your supervisor, or other teams/departments for any information deemed missing, or unclear.
• Other accounting team projects as necessary, which will require the same skills outlined below.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in accounting, auditing, or tax.
• A Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, or finance.
• CPA license preferred.
• Have a natural inclination towards systems, technology, and automation.
• Ability to research independently for information and answers before asking questions.
• Experience working with auditors and/or tax firms is preferred.
• Organizational skills to be able to easily track multiple tasks, questions, and responses.
• Demonstrated the ability to calmly manage multiple requests, and prioritize them well while maintaining a great attitude during tight deadlines.
• Solution-oriented approach to research and problem-solving, preferring to place focus on the best way to solve problems rather than focusing only on the problems themselves
• Advanced skills in Excel: the ability to do embedded formulas using IF( AND( OR( VLOOKUP( SUMIFS(, etc., and display information concisely and with high readability.
• Prior experience with working for a company with many subsidiaries would be preferred.
• Experience with NetSuite is preferred.

Pay & Benefits:

• Compensation range: $95,000 - $115,000 Base
• 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

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits .
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.

Skills Required