About

• Description
• We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Overhead Accountant to join our corporate accounting team. This role is responsible for managing various aspects of overhead accounting, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting, and supporting audit and budget processes. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments.

Key Responsibilities

• Overhead/Land/Ranch Accounting: Maintain accurate records of entries for various overhead departments, Land portfolio and Ranch. This includes review of financial statements, posting reclassifications and journal entries for these departments.
• Invoice Management: Review coding and approve invoices for payment in accordance with company policies.
• Budget Preparation: Assist various overhead, land, and ranch departments in their annual budget process.
• Reconciliations: Coordinate consolidated balance sheet reconciliation process for all financial statement accounts between accounting team members. In addition, perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations for Corporate AR, ad-val taxes, and other various overhead and corporate general ledger accounts.
• Budget Oversight: Process budget exceptions and assist in quarterly variance reporting.
• Policy Compliance: Perform monthly compliance task of company’s various policies.
• Audit Support: Assist with year-end audit requests and provide necessary documentation to external auditors.
• Overhead Allocations: Assist with the recording of monthly overhead allocations to the various property portfolios.
• Collaborate with various department heads and personnel, as required.
• Perform or assist in various accounting duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in corporate or real estate environments.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Adobe.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Applicable experience in Accounting Software, preferably MRI.
• Demonstrate strong analytical capabilities with high attention to detail.
• Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in corporate or real estate environments.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Adobe.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Applicable experience in Accounting Software, preferably MRI.
• Demonstrate strong analytical capabilities with high attention to detail.
• CORE COMPETENCIES: ALL Employees
• Team Oriented: The ability to work effectively with others and to add value within the dynamics of the Company’s group endeavors. Tangible behaviors include trust, healthy conflict, active commitment, peer-to-peer accountability and a focus on the results.
• Relationship Builder: Establish healthy and respectful working relationships with all shareholders and customers sharing knowledge and support, contributing to team goals, and collaborating to solve problems.
• Legacy Mindset: Thinks long-term, protects organizational heritage, and contributes to a lasting impact.
• Transparency: Demonstrates openness in communication and decision-making; fosters trust across the organization.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication skills include professionalism, active listening, adaptability, and collaboration.
• Problem Solving: Ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment that relies on knowledge, experience, facts and data.
• Initiative: Ability to proactively identify and address customer needs, anticipate potential issues, and take action to resolve problems within the framework of the Company’s processes and procedures; demonstrates a willingness to go above and beyond standard duties to ensure positive experience.
• Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient and cost-effective manner.

• CORE VALUE BASED COMPETENCIES: ALL Employees
• Integrity: Ethical, diligent, and conscientious in all that we do.
• Ethical: Guided by strong moral principle; truthful and accountable; does the right thing, even when no one is watching
• Diligent: Precise and thorough; avoids shortcuts; committed to the highest standards; uses resources wisely
• Conscientious: Careful and intentional; considers impact before acting; seeks input and earns buy-in; owns decisions and actions
• Trust: Reliable, honest, and humble in all dealings.
• Reliable: Responsive and consistent; follows through so others can depend on you; keeps commitments
• Honest: Open and candid with colleagues; willing to share feedback, voice concerns, and challenge ideas respectfully, even in tough situations
• Humble: Approachable and collaborative; puts the team above self, shares credit, and admits mistakes; willing to do what’s needed, even the behind-the-scenes work that often goes unseen
• Impact: Results-oriented, driven, and innovative in all pursuits.
• Results-Oriented: Gets things done with urgency and composure; rallies others to vision and purpose; delivers meaningful results for teammates, tenants, and guests
• Driven: Decisive and confident; takes action without perfect information; takes ownership of problem and solution; uses all resources available to accomplish the goal pursues solutions with determination
• Innovative: Curious and creative; embraces new ideas; committed to continuous improvement
• Legacy: Forward-thinking, resilient, committed to building on our foundation to create lasting value for the future.
• Forward-Thinking: Makes intentional choices for the future while honoring the past; resists short-term fixes to ensure lasting progress
• Resilient: Passionate, strong, and unwavering; upholds quality and values through adversity
• Builder: Embraces a growth mindset; develops people, teams, and communities; leaves things better than they were found, fulfilling our commitment to Build Better Lives

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Requires sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, to permit the employee to function in a general office environment and accomplish tasks and duties as outlined above.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

• ABOUT METRONATIONAL

MetroNational is a private, family-owned real estate investment, development, and management company located in Houston whose core interest is the Memorial City mixed-use development. The cornerstones of our business philosophy are teamwork, loyalty, integrity, and professionalism, which have led to winning several awards

• Houston Chronicle Top Workplaces
• Houston Business Journal Healthiest Employers
• Houston Business Journal Best Places to Work
• Cigna Well-Being Award
• American Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksite
• Mother-Friendly Worksite