_{06th July, 2026}

Vice President of Finance
Industry: Commercial Real Estate
Location: Miami
 
ttg Talent Solutions is conducting a confidential search for a Vice President of Finance on behalf of a privately held commercial real estate owner-operator specializing in commercial real estate. With over four decades in the market, the company has built a strong reputation in the acquisition, renovation, leasing, and active management of commercial properties, with a growing portfolio across multiple states.
 
The organization operates with a hands-on, long-term ownership philosophy focused on creating value for investors, tenants, lenders, and the communities served by its centers. This is a high-impact opportunity for a seasoned financial executive and CPA who understands commercial real estate and can bring accounting discipline, capital markets fluency, lender credibility, technology orientation, and strategic financial leadership to a growing owner-operator platform.
 
Position Summary: The Vice President of Finance will lead finance, accounting, treasury, reporting, tax coordination, lender reporting, and financial analysis across a multi-entity, multi-property commercial real estate platform. The successful candidate must bring strong accounting and controllership fundamentals, deep commercial real estate knowledge, meaningful lender and banking experience, and the ability to operate at both the strategic and tactical levels.
 
This leader will be responsible for accurate property-level and consolidated financial statements, stronger controls, a disciplined monthly close process, CAM reconciliations, lease-related accounting matters, acquisitions and dispositions, banking and lender relationships, and partnership with ownership, asset management, leasing, property management, tax advisors, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders.
 
The right person will understand the financial architecture of a real estate owner-operator, including property-level accounting, entity structures, debt facilities, lender reporting, debt service covenants, debt yields, SWAP agreements, commercial lease terms, capital expenditures, CAM reconciliations, tenant billing, investor reporting, acquisition modeling, cash flow forecasting, cap rates, property valuations, and portfolio-level performance analysis.
 
Key Mandate The next Vice President of Finance will play a central role in four priorities:

• Strengthen the company's finance, accounting, reporting, tax coordination, treasury, and control environment.
• Bring disciplined commercial real estate finance expertise to acquisitions, dispositions, refinancing, lender relationships, covenant compliance, and valuation analysis.
• Build a scalable finance function capable of supporting growth, investor visibility, fundraising, and operational discipline.
• Use technology, Excel, financial systems, and AI-enabled tools to improve communication, workflows, reporting, and decision-making speed.

 
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted financial partner to the CEO, ownership, and executive leadership team.
• Lead finance, accounting, treasury, reporting, tax coordination, lender reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Ensure timely, accurate financial statements at the property, entity, consolidated, portfolio, and ownership levels.
• Strengthen the monthly close process, balance sheet discipline, reconciliation rigor, reporting cadence, and financial statement preparation process.
• Oversee property-level accounting across shopping centers and related ownership entities.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages covering property performance, NOI, cash flow, occupancy, leasing activity, debt, capital expenditures, debt service coverage, debt yield, and key operating metrics.
• Provide financial analysis, reporting, and insight to support ownership, asset management, leasing, property management, and executive decision-making.
• Partner with asset management, leasing, and property management to improve NOI, occupancy, collections, leasing economics, and profitability.
• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, variance analysis, and property-level projections across the portfolio.
• Support and lead acquisition and disposition analysis, including deal modeling, valuation review, cap rate analysis, financing assumptions, due diligence, negotiations, and post-closing integration.
• Bring the financial sophistication to negotiate commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions with ownership, legal counsel, lenders, brokers, and external advisors.
• Manage banking and lender relationships, maintaining regular communication to stay close to spreads, credit appetite, financing structures, and the broader lending environment.
• Negotiate, evaluate, and manage real estate mortgage financing, refinancing, loan terms, covenants, debt yields, debt service coverage requirements, and lender reporting obligations.
• Understand and support the evaluation of SWAP agreements, interest rate risk, debt structuring alternatives, and related treasury considerations.
• Partner with leadership on capital strategy, refinancing, debt management, covenant compliance, and investment community communications.
• Support fundraising efforts and communicate effectively with external high-net-worth individuals, investors, lenders, and capital partners.
• Strengthen processes around commercial lease terms, CAM reconciliations, tenant billing, receivables, payables, property taxes, insurance, and capital project tracking.
• Review annual tax returns and coordinate effectively with external tax accountants, CPA firms, and other tax advisors.
• Assess and improve the company's chart of accounts, reporting architecture, systems flow, financial structure, and internal controls.
• Evaluate current team structure, talent capability, role clarity, and operating cadence within finance and accounting.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Controller, property accountants, and finance and accounting team members.
• Create a finance environment that is compliant, well-controlled, audit-ready, scalable, and aligned with the standards expected of a sophisticated commercial real estate owner-operator.
• Use technology, Excel, financial systems, and AI tools to improve workflows, reporting quality, communication, bottleneck resolution, and finance productivity.
• Partner with outside CPA firms, tax advisors, auditors, lenders, legal counsel, brokers, and other external advisors.
• Help define the roadmap toward a strategic finance function that supports growth, capital deployment, fundraising, financing strategy, and executive decision-making.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• CPA required.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; MBA or advanced finance degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, controllership, or CFO-level experience.
• Rent Manager experience preferred, including both the accounting module and multifamily property management functionality.
• Significant commercial real estate experience, preferably in retail, shopping centers, multi-property ownership, asset management, real estate investment, or owner-operator platforms.
• Strong experience preparing and reviewing financial statements, financial analysis, management reporting, and property-level financial packages.
• Strong understanding of property-level accounting, multi-entity structures, debt, cash flow, lender reporting, investor reporting, and ownership reporting.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating real estate mortgages, refinancing transactions, lender terms, and debt structures.
• Meaningful banking and lender relationships, with regular market awareness of lending spreads, financing conditions, credit appetite, and capital availability.
• Working knowledge of SWAP agreements, interest rate exposure, debt service covenants, debt yields, and lender compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of property valuations, cap rates, NOI, occupancy, leasing economics, capital expenditures, and shopping center profitability.
• Experience with commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, including due diligence, financial modeling, valuation, financing, negotiation support, and closing coordination.
• Ability to communicate effectively with high-net-worth individuals, investors, lenders, ownership groups, and external advisors.
• Comfortable supporting fundraising, investment community communications, and capital partner relationships.
• Strong knowledge of commercial lease terms, CAM reconciliation processes, tenant billing, property tax, insurance, and lease-related accounting matters.
• Ability to review annual tax returns and interact effectively with external tax accountants and CPA firms.
• Proven experience leading finance in a multi-entity, multi-property, or portfolio-driven environment.
• Strong accounting fundamentals, including close, reconciliations, controls, reporting, audit readiness, financial statement integrity, and balance sheet discipline.
• Advanced Excel proficiency required.
• Strong technology orientation, with the ability to quickly assimilate new technologies, software, systems, and process changes.
• AI orientation required: knowledgeable of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and similar platforms, with a practical mindset for improving communication, workflows, reporting, analysis, and productivity.
• Experience with real estate accounting systems, property management systems, investor reporting platforms, or related financial technology strongly preferred.
• Ability to improve systems, processes, reporting views, and financial workflows without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Leadership experience supervising Controllers, property accountants, accounting managers, or finance teams.
• Professional demeanor and presentation, with credibility to represent the company with lenders, investors, ownership, advisors, and sophisticated external parties.

 
Leadership and Cultural Profile
The right person for this role will be a true financial professional with the maturity, judgment, discipline, and presence to serve as a trusted partner to ownership and senior leadership. This leader must be technically strong, commercially aware, team-oriented, and driven to operate at a very high level.

• Strategic, but close enough to the details to ensure execution and accountability.
• Hungry: operates with urgency, discipline, ownership, and strong self-drive.
• Smart: technically strong, resourceful, practical, and able to use knowledge, tools, systems, and relationships to achieve results.
• Humble: understands that the organization wins as a team, earns trust consistently, and does not operate with an outsized ego.
• Mature, credible, and effective as a partner to ownership, senior leadership, lenders, investors, and external advisors.
• Comfortable operating in a hands-on, entrepreneurial commercial real estate environment.
• Highly organized, disciplined, thoughtful, and analytical in planning and execution.
• Strong in accounting fundamentals, while able to see the broader business, investment, financing, and valuation picture.
• Able to translate financial information into practical business insight for real estate operators, investors, lenders, and leadership.
• Comfortable building structure, controls, and reporting discipline without slowing down the business unnecessarily.
• Proactive, accountable, and capable of improving processes, teams, workflows, and reporting standards.
• Clear, direct, respectful, and professional in communication.
• A team player who can lead the Controller and property accountants while building trust, alignment, and accountability across finance.
• Able to support both immediate priorities and the long-term development of a stronger, more scalable finance organization.

 
Why This Opportunity
This is an opportunity to join a respected, privately held commercial real estate owner-operator with a decades-long track record, a clear investment focus, and a growing portfolio of neighborhood and community shopping centers across multiple states. The Vice President of Finance will shape the financial infrastructure of the business, strengthen accounting and reporting discipline, support acquisitions and capital strategy, partner with lenders and investors, and serve as a key financial leader as the company continues creating long-term value for its investors, tenants, and communities.
 

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