Senior Accountant

Retail Specialists is the premier real estate services firm in the South, committed to earning long-term relationships with clients to better serve the communities around us. We treat every asset and client project as if it were our own and provide creative solutions that maximize success in leasing and brokerage, property management, tenant representation, and development.

We are looking for an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our growing team. The position will analyze and organize financial data, prepare reports and financials, and maintain internal controls procedures. The Senior Accountant will work directly with the CFO and Director of Finance on the day-to-day oversight of company finances and cashflow. This role is critical to the growth and success of our team and relies on excellent communication, proactive thinking, and precise execution of tasks.

What Sets Us Apart?

Our entrepreneurial mindset and culture of collaboration enable us to tailor our services to create unrealized potential, rewarding opportunities, and unique real estate solutions for our clients. All team members contribute their specialized knowledge, and we are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels empowered to achieve their potential.

Sister Company: Our sister company, Retail Strategies, is the nation’s leading municipal advisory firm focused on helping communities across the country attract businesses. Together with our passion for people, we exist to measurably improve the quality of life in communities through innovation and entrepreneurial pursuits and can leverage a nationwide network that no other company can match.

Company Culture: At Retail Specialists and Retail Strategies, our culture is paramount to our success. Our core values of being committed, collaborative, respected, and innovative are the foundation to everything we do. We believe that our people are our single best and most important asset, and we expect our team to show up every day ready to hustle, open to learn, and eager to contribute to the collective success of our companies. We work hard and we play hard and are equally serious about both.

The Senior Accountant will:

• Prepare monthly profit and loss statements, balance sheet, cash flow, and other monthly closing reports for distribution to management
• Monitor budgets to actuals
• Produce and analyze financial reports for accuracy and completeness
• Analyze and advise on business operations including revenue and expenditure trends, financial commitments, and future revenues
• Prepare weekly reports and dashboards for the CFO
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and documenting financial transactions
• Handle vendor invoices and other accounts payable functions
• Handle company invoices and other accounts receivable functions
• Calculate commissions on a monthly basis
• Assist with tax return preparation and filings

Qualifications

• Five+ years’ experience in an Accounting role
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• Experience with QuickBooks required
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Office applications including Outlook, Word, and Excel required
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Someone who is a self-starter, takes initiative, proactively addresses issues, can work with minimal oversight, and has high attention to detail

At Retail Specialists and Retail Strategies, we know that success depends on all of us. To learn more about our companies, check out this short video highlighting our history and our culture.

If you feel this position or our Company are a fit for you, let’s talk. We are always looking for talented people to join our team.

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Leasing & Broker Associate

• Transaction management experience
• Proven skills in contract review, lease/purchase, and sale negotiations
• Solid understanding of financial and accounting impacts
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent negotiating, communication, collaboration, organizational, planning, and process skills
• Experience working with corporate clients to achieve real estate objectives
• Strong ability to interpret and communicate business intelligence and data analytics
• Ability to build relationships and interact effectively with businesses and clients at a senior level
• Ability to think strategically and act proactively

• Prefer a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or Real Estate
• A minimum of 2-3 years of relevant real estate experience
• Real estate brokerage or salesperson license required

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Tenant Rep

Retail Specialists is the premier real estate services firm in the South, committed to earning long-term relationships with clients to better serve the communities around us. We are a trusted advisor to national, regional, and local retailers in market development, site selection, and contract negotiations. We treat every asset and client project as if it were our own, and our focus is on building long-term relationships with our clients to achieve maximum success and market potential.


What Sets Us Apart?


Our entrepreneurial mindset and culture of collaboration enable us to tailor our services to create unrealized potential, rewarding opportunities, and viable real estate solutions for our clients. We operate with a uniquely collaborative process that delivers a team-wide depth of expertise that street brokers and siloed mega-firms cannot match. Every team member is encouraged to contribute specialized knowledge, and we are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels empowered to achieve their potential.


Our sister company, Retail Strategies, is the nation’s leading municipal advisory firm focused on helping communities across the country attract retail. By fostering those relationships and providing our entrepreneurial approach to projects within those communities, we are able to leverage a nationwide network that no other real estate company can match. In addition, we are able to generate invaluable community-specific data that allows us to help our clients navigate as far into the future as possible.


Position Details


We are currently looking for experienced Tenant Representation Brokers to join our client-dedicated team in our Birmingham and Atlanta offices. The ideal candidate would have an established book of business, proven real estate strategy experience, a self-starter attitude and strong work ethic, the ability to recruit and manage a portfolio of clients, and the capacity to handle all transaction-related details.


This position will report to the Executive Vice President/Principal and the individual will be responsible for all transactional details including site selection, strategy development, negotiation, and deal closing. Support will be provided from team members in marketing, site selection packaging, and accounting.


Responsibilities


Business Development: Our brokers are talented and strategic in acquiring new clients. Although we provide a number of house accounts when applicable, our Tenant Representation brokers are expected to bring in new business and will be supported accordingly.


Client Consulting: Our brokers serve as consultants for our clients in order to gauge both their present and future needs. We ultimately consider ourselves an extension of our clients’ real estate team and work tirelessly to identify the right spaces, negotiate deal terms on their behalf, introduce our network of service providers, and facilitate a smooth and successful transaction.


Collaborative Mindset: We not only encourage collaboration, but we also require it. We know that outcomes are elevated through collaboration and have found that the greatest results come from utilizing the unique backgrounds of our team members.


Company Culture:

At Retail Specialists, our culture is paramount to our collective success. We live by our Core Values of being committed, collaborative, respected, and innovative. We believe that our people are our best and most important asset, and we expect our team to show up every day ready to hustle, ready to learn, and eager to contribute to the overall success of the team and company.


Knowledge and Skills Required

• Transaction management skills
• Proven skills in contract review, lease/purchase, and sale negotiations
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent negotiating, communication, collaboration, organizational, planning, and process skills
• Experience working with corporate clients to achieve real estate objectives
• Strong ability to interpret and communicate business intelligence/data analytics
• Ability to build relationships and interact effectively with businesses and clients at a senior level
• Strong multi-market knowledge of trade areas, landlords, and retailers

Education and Experience

• Prefer a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or Real Estate
• 5 to 7 years of relevant real estate experience, ideally working for a retailer or in a Tenant Representation role
• Real estate brokerage or salesperson license required

Retail Specialists is committed to growing our team and our footprint in a way that is smart, strategic, and scalable. Our success depends on all of us, so if you feel this position and this company are a fit for you, let’s talk.

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