Senior Accountant, Investment Operations

About the role

Backflip is a venture-backed FinTech committed to becoming the leader in residential real estate investment financing. Our vision is to increase people's love for their communities by investing in housing and improving the physical world. To do that, we need people who are inspired to modernize real estate investing by connecting entrepreneurs with sophisticated capital. Backflip's capital product menu consists of fix and flip financing (RTL), single family rental loans (DSCR), and Ground-Up Construction. Backflip is seeking a Senior Accountant, Investment Operations with investment management and loan-securitization experience to help us bring key accounting and fund administration functions in-house. This experienced accountant will play a critical role in designing and implementing institutional-grade accounting and close processes for our investment management entities and public securitization vehicles. This role will lead the insourcing and institutionalization of accounting functions currently performed with third-party support, including bookkeeping, close support, servicing support, investor reporting support, and entity-level reporting including securitization. The Senior Accountant, Investment Operations will report to Backflip's Head of Accounting and will work closely with internal Finance and Capital Markets teams and with various external partners (eg, fund administrators, auditors, tax preparers) to build repeatable processes and institutional controls while meeting critical deadlines for accurate, comprehensive investment management and securitization reporting.