Sr. Accountant
Digital Realty

Job Info

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Position Title: Sr. Accountant

Location: Dallas, TX or San Francisco, CA

Your role

This role will give you the opportunity to expand your skills as a Senior Accountant in an exciting, specialized industry where you'll work independently and be in control of your assigned properties from an accounting standpoint. Under general supervision, you will have responsibilities related to a portfolio of properties, variance analysis, general ledger reconciliations, and presenting the data to Asset and Corporate Management with insights for better decision-making. If you want to bring your Property Management expertise to a successful venture where you'll receive strong support from your supervisor and the accounting team, where everyone is open and willing to help each other, and where new opportunities are being created as due to strong company growth, then this could be the right role for you.

What you'll do

This role assists the Accounting Manager with overseeing Joint Venture accounting, month end close and reporting functions.

• Preparing routine and non-routine journal entries, including accrual, management fee, capital contribution and distribution etc.
• Prepare account reconciliations and analysis, including cash, investment and equity, identifying potential issues and following up with resolutions.
• Prepare month end, quarter end and year-end income statement flux preparation and analysis for joint ventures. Process includes a thorough investigation of changes in, for instance, operating revenues and expenses.
• Prepare and analyze Joint Venture financial statements to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting packages for joint ventures managed by Digital Realty.
• Ongoing support of internal customer needs, specifically Asset Management, Operations, Sales, FPA, and Legal teams.
• Assist with external auditors to ensure correct and timely closing and reporting at year-end.
• Performing ad hoc project as needed.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• BS in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• Solid knowledge of US GAAP accounting and reporting. Knowledge of JV reporting is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of financial applications, concepts, and theories.
• Demonstrated proficiency in journal entry preparation, account reconciliation and analysis.
• Demonstrated aptitude with ERP systems, experience with Yardi is a plus.
• High degree of comfort and strong desire to work in fast, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written. A quick learner.
• Advanced Excel knowledge is a must as this position will work with complex Excel spreadsheets on a monthly basis.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Team player and ability to work independently.
• Strong understanding of authoritative accounting literature that covers Real Estate and Corporate accounting groups.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team

Finance

Our Finance team works in one of the world's fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization. From managing budgets to financial planning, we deliver a full range of finance and accounting services to help our business stay on track and meet our goals. We also have other specialist areas of expertise including Portfolio Management and Lease Administration.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.

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