
Roger Colby
Director of Accounting @ WinnCompanies
United States
Hudson
Real Estate
General Ledger, Cash Flow, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Budgets, MRI Software, Yardi, Construction Accounting, Accounts Payable, Forecasting, Budgeting, Kardin, Yardi Voyager, Troubleshooting, Leases
Experience

Director of Accounting
Lowell, MA
• Manage Accounting Team to ensure financial integrity. Ensure monthly accounting calendar, checklists and exception reporting are completely timely and accurately. Review bank reconciliation and financial reports for all monthly and quarterly reporting requirements. Organize and conduct accounting financial review calls with operation teams and clients as needed. Review and approve the annual properties’ accounting budgets. Assist Corporate Controller with the annual accounting budget process. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on acquisition, disposition, consolidation and refinancing of properties. • Responsible to direct the overall accounting activities and to oversee financial management of assigned portfolio. Identify and implement new accounting processes or systems in line with strategic business initiatives and functional goals to continually drive process improvements and cost effectiveness. Develop, implement and document policy, procedure and best practices for new initiatives. • Responsible for all aspects of talent management, including: hiring, onboarding, training, coaching and assigning workload to staff. Hire, develop and mentor accounting team members for professional growth, quality work production and departmental goals. Train team members on accounting policies and procedures. Manage a robust onboarding process for new employee orientation and responsible for the overall accounting team members’ level of employee engagement. • Supports company’s strategic alliances, partnership and clients both internal and external as required. Maintain strong relationships with our clients, partners, alliances and third-party audit firms to ensure that accounting needs are addressed and handled effectively. Act as the main contact for external auditors, oversee the audit process and to ensure overall audit delivery meets the internal and external timelines.

Portfolio Controller
Lowell, MA
• Oversee the overall financial management of assigned portfolios. Ensure financial integrity. Liaise with Winn business partners. Manage relationship with internal and external clients. Review and approve the annual accounting budget. Act as the accounting team leader by collaborating with cross-functional teams for the acquisition, disposition, consolidation and refinancing of properties. • Manage team of accountants in all aspects of talent management, including: hiring, onboarding, training, coaching and assigning workload to staff to ensure financial integrity. • Oversee the audit process. Act as Winn intermediary with external auditors by researching, compiling, and responding to all audit requests to ensure completion and meeting internal and external timelines. • Act as team leader/member of corporate, departmental or cross-functional projects. Implement new financial software. Develop, implement and document policy, procedure and practices. Drive continuous process improvement. • Reviewed settlement statements for new acquired properties, sold properties, re-syndications, and refinances. Prepared opening and closing entries as needed. • Key participant in the software conversion from Yardi to RealPage.

Sr Property Accountant
• Prepares monthly financial reports for assigned portfolio including journal entries, general ledger reviews, cash reconciliations, supporting documentations, bank reconciliations, and balance sheet reconciliations. • Reviews all subsidiary reports and reconciles to the general ledger monthly, including a review of the rent roll and gross potential rent (“GPR”) for assigned portfolio. • Monitors security deposit cash and ensures that all accounts are fully funded. • Provides and prepares work papers for annual audit and annual tax returns. • Reviewed settlement statements for new acquired properties, sold properties, re-syndications, and refinances. Prepared opening and closing entries as needed. • Prepares for payment monthly management fees, monthly mortgages, escrow payments, insurance payments, and real estate taxes. • Participates in creation of annual property budgets. • Provides support and assistance to the Property and Asset Management departments. • Designed and implemented several winning ideas that saved several departments many hours. • Tested and reviewed functionality for the accounting software conversion from Yardi 6 to Yardi 7s. • Trained several accountants on proper procedures. • Assisted with implementation of new business.

Sr. Corporate Accountant
Winstanley Enterprises LLC
Prepares monthly financial reports for a portfolio comprising commercial properties and corporate entities including journal entries, general ledger reviews, cash reconciliations, and supporting documentations and reconciliations. Provides monthly constructions accounting services for commercial properties which includes budget to actual tracking, project completion close outs, expected life allocations, third party billing calculations, journal entries, and asset set up in FAS. Reconciles monthly transactions from company credit card and creates billing from corporate entity to commercial entities for appropriate transactions. Prepares monthly cash flows for active properties. Involved monthly in the preparation, implementation and validation of the monthly distributions from 40 commercial entities to over 184 investors across several ownership structures involving complex waterfall calculations. Provides and prepares information for the annual property budget/reforecast process. Provides and prepares work papers for annual audit and annual tax returns. Reviews settlement statements for new acquired commercial properties and sold properties and prepares opening and closing entries. Prepares and files the Monthly Sales and Use tax filings. Managed a Sales and Use tax Audit performed by the state of Connecticut. Prepares monthly loan draws for several commercial properties. Maintains intercompany reconciliations for multiple properties across the portfolio. Provides backup support to the supervision of the combined Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable department. Assisted in the writing and the implementation of several SOPP’s across the company. Assists in administration of the accounting system by editing financial reports. Assisted in the implementation of a new distributions process. Assisted in a chart of accounts conversion. Currently involved with an accounting system conversion from MRI to Yardi.

Sr. Property Accountant
Prepares monthly financial reports for a portfolio of third party commercial properties including journal entries, general ledger reviews, cash reconciliations, and supporting documentations and reconciliations. Reviews for completeness and accuracy and communicates the results to the management group and external parties ensuring that the completion is in accordance with due dates and appropriate reporting requirements. Sets up in new assets FAS. Prepares monthly cash flows for active properties. Prepares monthly loan draws for several commercial properties. Calculate CPI rent increase and monthly tenant escalation billings and annual escalation true-ups. Calculated the monthly distributions for portfolio of commercial properties. Provides and prepares information for the annual property budget/reforecast process. Provides and prepares work papers for annual audit and annual tax returns. Reviews settlement statements for new acquired commercial properties and sold properties and prepares opening and closing entries. Performed backup responsibilities for daily cash transfers, positive pay uploads to the bank, and downloading BAI files for daily bank reconciliation.
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