We’re hir­ing a staff accountant

Har­bour Homes, LLC is seek­ing a Staff Accoun­tant to specif­i­cal­ly focus on our land acqui­si­tion and devel­op­ment (A&D) process­es. Estab­lished in 1983, we are a pri­vate­ly held, lean and grow­ing com­pa­ny. Our employ­ees are an active bunch; we run, ride bikes, hike, play sports and enjoy a casu­al, but entre­pre­neur­ial work envi­ron­ment, com­pet­i­tive com­pen­sa­tion and ben­e­fits and free park­ing. We believe in the syn­er­gies that hap­pen when every­one is work­ing togeth­er; so you won’t find any telecom­muters or peo­ple work­ing from home in our office. We are locat­ed in Seat­tle in the heart of the Fre­mont neighborhood.

Posi­tion Overview:

In sum­ma­ry, the A&D Staff Accoun­tant posi­tion will ini­tial­ly be respon­si­ble for work­ing exten­sive­ly inside of our Sage 300 CRE and Builder MT WMS sys­tems to:

• Set up A&D jobs
• Import A&D bud­gets for vari­ance tracking
• Set up accounts payable cod­ing templates
• Code A&D invoic­es monthly
• Pre­pare joint check requests for A&D projects
• Man­age our A&D mod­el tem­plate and revi­sions to it
• Pre­pare A&D loan draw requests
• Main­tain A&D budgets
• Report and com­mu­ni­cate bud­get to actu­al reports monthly
• Pre­pare A&D relat­ed entries and reconciliations
• Main­tain A&D sum­ma­ry reports; and, most importantly,
• Inde­pen­dent­ly inves­ti­gate and trou­bleshoot data when the account­ing does not pro­ceed as expected

In addi­tion to the A&D spe­cif­ic respon­si­bil­i­ties not­ed above, this posi­tion will assist with oth­er tasks with­in the account­ing depart­ment, pos­si­bly includ­ing: finan­cial state­ment prepa­ra­tion, new home com­mu­ni­ty bud­gets, and oth­er report­ing and projects as assigned.

Edu­ca­tion:

Bachelor’s degree in account­ing or a relat­ed field (i.e. Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion w/​Account­ing Emphasis)

Skills/​Experience:

• Three years of account­ing expe­ri­ence preferred
• Knowl­edge of the Sage 300 Con­struc­tion and Real Estate Account­ing Sys­tem (for­mer­ly Sage Tim­ber­line Office) is pre­ferred but not required
• Past expe­ri­ence in a res­i­den­tial or com­mer­cial con­struc­tion firm help­ful, but not required
• Strong com­put­er skills includ­ing MS Excel and Word
• Effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tor both ver­bal­ly (espe­cial­ly over the phone) and in writing
• Work eth­ic and dri­ve to get things done right and on time
• Abil­i­ty to work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with employ­ees at all lev­els of the organization

This posi­tion offers a com­pet­i­tive base salary, dis­cre­tionary bonus oppor­tu­ni­ties, free park­ing and med­ical and den­tal insur­ance ben­e­fits with pre­mi­ums that are 100% employ­er paid for Har­bour Homes employees.

Inter­est­ed can­di­dates may sub­mit resumes and cov­er let­ters by email­ing [email protected]​harbourhomes.​com. When sub­mit­ting your cov­er let­ter, please address the bul­let­ed respon­si­bil­i­ties above and include your salary requirements.

Resumes sub­mit­ted with­out cov­er let­ters will not be con­sid­ered. Resumes from staffing com­pa­nies and recruiters will not be con­sid­ered unless a con­tract is in place to fill this spe­cif­ic posi­tion. Har­bour Homes is an EOE.