Onsite Financial Manager (CFL2025-7861)

GrandManors is a Division of RealManage, a company that specializes in the management of community associations with onsite staff. 

Our mission is to provide the best possible lifestyle HOA management services to our partner communities by encompassing the Best People, Best Technology, and Best Service reputation of RealManage and its CiraConnect division. The GrandManors professional staff has decades of experience managing age-restricted communities, luxury high-rise condominiums, co-ops, urban mixed-use, and large-scale single-family developments with complex amenities. Our focus is on customer service and lifestyle for the residents and the boards we serve- ensuring that the community receives the finest management in the industry.

RealManage is a values-based company with the following values as our guiding principles:

• Integrity: we always do the right thing.
• Respect: for our customers, employees and company; mutual respect is the cornerstone for every RealManage relationship.
• Selflessness: more than teamwork; we are part of something special and much larger than any of us.
• Personal Relationships: we are a professional services company; people do business with people they like.
• Always Improving: never satisfied, always learning and always growing; one is either getting worse or getting better...never staying the same. At RealManage, we are always getting better.

RealManage has earned the prestigious Certified™ recognition from Great Place to Work®, a global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership excellence. This accolade is a testament to the positive feedback from our employees about their RealManage experience.

Property Summary:

The Celebration Community was formed with the concept of building a better place and a better way to live. There’s a reason Celebration is not a town, but a community in every positive sense of the word.
Cornerstones

In order to draft a blueprint for fulfilling such a vision and oversee its creation, the Walt Disney Company founded The Celebration Company. Utilizing the combined experience of a specialized group of world-renowned city and social planners, as well as the best architects of our time, The Celebration Company conceived five principles that would guide every aspect of the community’s creation. Those five guiding principles known as the Celebration Cornerstones, consist of…

• SENSE OF COMMUNITY
• SENSE OF PLACE
• FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY
• FOCUS ON EDUCATION
• FOCUS ON HEALTH

This is an Onsite postion.

Responsibilities:

 The Financial Manager is responsible for providing general ledger, cash management, financial reporting, cash flow forecasting, customized reports, and financial management consultation services for a portfolio of elite onsite and high-rise community association clients. This position will interface with the General Managers, Director of Association Management, Regional Vice Presidents of Onsite Management, community association Board of Directors and third-party service providers on financial matters. This is a "hands-on" position from an accounting perspective. The Financial Manager will report directly to the Financial Director.

The Financial Manager will be responsible for:

• Client contractual service deliverables including review and approval of invoice workflows, production of monthly financial reports and review of annual budgets
• Managing the monthly pre-close and close processes for a portfolio of communities
• Managing the preparation process for annual budgets
• Relationship with client board of directors
• Managing the daily flow of financial service inquiries and requests
• Client billing for services performed outside the service level agreement
• Client satisfaction and retention
• Troubleshooting and resolving escalated accounting issues
• Liaison with Shared Services departments providing accounts payable, accounts receivable, property conveyances, community banking, collections, audit & tax, insurance, corporate accounting, Information Technology and transition services in the delivery of overall financial management services
• Process improvement recommendations and implementation
• Becoming a “subject matter expert” on the technology platform with respect to the delivery of accounting and financial management services
• Projects as required to increase our ability to service our clients

Required:

• Accounting degree from a 4-year accredited college / university
• Willing to learn new software and various state legislation that applies to common interest realty associations
• Teamwork Perspective
• The desire to have fun in the workplace while meeting and exceeding expectations

Desired:

• Real estate, property management and/or outsourced accounting / bookkeeping industry experience strongly preferred
• Hands on experience with a mid to upper tier accounting software package
• Exceptional computer skills (power user)
• Graduate degree a plus
• Excellent grasp of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Strong interpersonal/communication (written and verbal) skills
• Ability to work efficiently in a dynamic, challenging, high change/growth environment
• Advanced Excel Skills – more than just pivot tables and vlookup

Pay: $90K to $105K depending on education and experience

Benefits include:

• Medical Insurance - Company will pay the premium for Employee Only Tier on the HSA plan
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• HSA (Required High Deductible Medical Plan to be eligible)
• FSA 
• Education Reimbursement 
• 401K matching 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11 paid Holidays