Senior Staff Accountant

Senior Staff Accountant

About Mark Spain Real Estate:

Mark Spain Real Estate (MSRE) is a top rated residential real estate brokerage in the US, helping families buy and sell their homes. MSRE is the #1 real estate team in the industry for client satisfaction, with over 12,000 5-star reviews. The brokerage serves thousands of families each year and closes billions of dollars of real estate transactions annually by offering homeowners several home selling programs, including getting the best possible Guaranteed Offer for qualified clients. MSRE is poised to more than double the volume of homes sold annually by leveraging technology to better serve clients and pursuing geographical expansion to serve even more families. 

Position Overview:

The Senior Staff Accountant supports the month-end close, owns key reconciliations and journal entries, and drives automation of routine close activities using AI tools. This role partners across the business to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, with additional focus with the Marketing team to support media accruals for the company’s wide-ranging investments in D2C advertising. The Senior Staff Accountant reports to the Accounting Manager and works closely with the broader finance team supporting MSRE's brokerage and title businesses. The position is located at the company's headquarters in Alpharetta, GA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Month-End Close: Executes assigned close tasks against the close calendar, including journal entry preparation, accrual booking, and subledger tie-outs. Identifies opportunities to compress the close timeline.
• Media & Marketing Accruals: Partners directly with the Marketing team each month to gather spend data, validate vendor invoices against committed campaigns, and book accurate media accruals across digital, brand, and lead-gen channels.
• Account Reconciliations: Prepares monthly reconciliations for assigned balance sheet accounts, including bank, prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, fixed assets, and intercompany. Researches and resolves reconciling items.
• Flux Analysis: Performs monthly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis against budget, prior month, and prior year. Documents drivers and escalates unusual variances to the Accounting Manager and CFO.
• AI-Enabled Automation: Uses AI tools (primarily Gemini) to automate recurring close activities — reconciliation preparation, variance commentary drafting, journal entry templating, and supporting documentation. Identifies new automation opportunities across the close.
• Journal Entries: Prepares and posts recurring and non-recurring journal entries, including accruals, prepaid amortization, allocations, capital asset entries, and reclassifications. Maintains supporting documentation.
• Intercompany & Subsidiary Accounting: Supports accounting for Evergreen Settlement Services and Nine Street Insurance, including intercompany transactions and eliminations.
• AP & Expense Support: Reviews coding on AP invoices and Ramp credit card transactions to ensure accurate GL classification.
• Audit Support: Prepares assigned PBC schedules and reconciliations for external audit and responds to auditor requests.
• Process Documentation: Maintains written procedures for assigned close tasks and reconciliations. Updates documentation as processes change.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Supports special projects, including operational analyses, system implementations, and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally including month-end close ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP.
• Proficiency with accounting systems (QuickBooks experience preferred) and advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas).
• Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) for accounting or analytical work strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ramp, Paylocity, or similar systems a plus.
• Real estate, brokerage, or title industry experience a plus.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain accounting topics to non-finance partners (particularly Marketing).

Expectations:

• • Hybrid, in-office role in Alpharetta, GA.
  • No business travel is expected.
  • Curious, self-directed, and willing to challenge existing processes to find a better way.
  • Positive attitude and a team player.

Salary and Benefits Information:  

• Compensation will be a combination of base salary and quarterly performance-based incentives.  

Benefits include but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• 401k with company match  
• Paid time off and company holidays