Senior Associate - Real Estate Audit

Role Summary:

Real Estate audit team is a part of the Grant Thornton INDUS. As a professional in this team, you will work with GT US teams to audit various clients with businesses in real estate industry.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in auditing public real estate companies, including REITs
• Familiarity with accounting for rental income under ASC 842 – straight-line rent, collectibility assessment
• Experience in performing a full audit of rental income producing properties
• Experience in auditing acquisitions of operating real estate, including testing the inputs into a purchase price allocation, dispositions of real estate, impairment.
• Working knowledge of relevant accounting standards per US GAAP e.g., ASC 842. ASC 606, ASC 360 etc.
  
• Understanding and experience of performing SOX 404 procedures.
• Proactive while communicating operational challenges to US teams regarding availability of team members, utilization of hours, actively seeking and providing feedback.
• Collaborate with engagement team staffs on client issue resolution and make recommendations for any legal, regulatory and accounting issues that arise during an audit engagement.

Location: Bangalore/Kolkata, India.

Skills

• Proficiency in US GAAP, GAAS, and PCAOB rules and standards.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office tools.
• Excellent written and oral communications
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong people and project management skills
• Agile: Ability to adapt and accept challenging situations and tasks and perform with the utmost professionalism.

Professional Experience / Qualifications

• CA/CPA qualified
• Minimum 2-3 years of progressive audit experience in a medium to large public accounting firm or equivalent
• Big 4 experience a plus