at Evernest

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer | Location: Remote — Mexico | Engagement: Full-time independent contractor | Compensation: $75,000–$100,000 USD per year, plus 10% annual incentive paid quarterly.

Company Overview

Evernest is a full-service real estate and property management company with a national presence and an outstanding reputation. We operate in more than 50 of the nation's most investable markets and manage approximately 12,000 homes. Our team is high-performing, our culture is second to none, and our core values drive collaboration, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of excellence.

Our people, proprietary technology, and commitment to continuous improvement are reshaping an industry. Our goal is to manage 250,000 homes by 2030, and we are looking for driven individuals who share our vision and want to shape the future of property management while making a lasting impact on our clients and communities.

Position Overview

At Evernest, property accounting is not back-office work. We are building a brand that residents, owners, and vendors genuinely trust, and for accounting, that trust is built one clean, on-time statement at a time. You and your team will own some of the most important deliverables in the company: reporting that owners, clients, and our own teams never have to question.

We are seeking an ambitious, high-ownership accounting leader to own the books behind every door we manage. This is the single seat accountable for the close and trust accounting across all three client segments (Retail SFR, Institutional SFR, and Multifamily) and for the work of a team of roughly 25 U.S.-based and international accountants and specialists. You will report to the Chief Operating Officer as the most senior client accounting leader in the organization.

This is a strategic-doer seat. As the technical authority in property accounting, you will personally own our most complex institutional client books until the team and processes maintain your standards without your day-to-day involvement. You will also be the technical escalation path for every accountant in the department. It is also a builder’s seat. Our processes and team are good; your job is to make them best in class. AI is changing how we work, and it must be core to how the department operates, not an occasional experiment: eliminating manual work, catching exceptions before they become variances, and tightening the close. In addition to paving the way with AI, you will partner with our data and technology teams to build durable processes, designed with the client in mind, that close the books earlier every month.

This is a growth seat. We are as interested in the rising accounting leader as the seasoned one, because the scale we are building toward will demand more of this role every year. There is no status quo.

This role is open to candidates based in Mexico working US Central Time business hours. Because your team, your clients, and the books themselves are American, deep hands-on experience with US property management accounting is required. Compensation is benchmarked to the market in Mexico and quoted in USD.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the close on time, every month. Owner statements, client packages, reconciliations, disbursements, and 1099s across all three segments, from a door’s onboarding through its disposition.

• Keep every trust dollar clean and provable. 100% of trust and operating accounts reconciled monthly across more than 50 markets, no unexplained variances, clean audits, and full compliance with every state’s broker trust rules.

• Own institutional client accounting. Client-specific mappings, funding requests, lender and DSCR reporting, capex policy, and fee analysis. Be the person on the call when a number is challenged.

• Build the bench. Coach the Retail, Multifamily, and Institutional accounting leaders and develop the team beneath them so the function never depends on one person.

• Run the operating rhythm. Weekly leadership meetings, one-on-ones, and a close-status review where every metric has a named owner and input metrics flag a missed close before it happens.

• Inspect what you expect. Document every recurring workflow, measure adherence, and rebuild anything that depends on individual effort.

• Run the department like a business. Own the scorecard and quarterly plans, drive cost per door down and productivity per accountant up, and stay inside budget.

• Never cost us a door. Zero accounting-related client churn.

What You Bring

• Experience at scale. Property accounting leadership at a multi-market, multi-entity third-party property manager, with direct accountability for thousands of doors and experience managing managers.

• Hands-on US trust accounting expertise. You have personally owned trust reconciliations, security deposits, owner disbursements, and 1099 reporting for US property management portfolios, and you designed the controls rather than operating inside someone else’s.

• Institutional client accounting. You have owned institutional reporting and defended your numbers directly to sophisticated clients.

• Fluent professional English. You will present to institutional clients, auditors, and our executive team.

• Committed to US Central Time business hours. This team and its clients run on a US close calendar.

• Extreme ownership. You have stayed on a hard problem until it was solved when it would have been easier to escalate, and you can tell us about it.

• A builder’s track record. Processes you built that held up after you moved on, with before-and-after results you can point to.

• A partner, not a gatekeeper. Operations leaders want to work with you, and you can collaborate and hold the line on controls when it matters.

• Drive to lead with AI. You are excited by what AI can do for accounting and want to be the one who brings it into the department, not the one who waits to see how it plays out.

• Fluency in the tools. AppFolio (or an equivalent property management accounting platform), Excel, Google Workspace, and treasury management banking platforms.

• Credentials. A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; Contador Público or CPA a plus.

• Range. As comfortable in transaction-level detail as you are presenting to executives, institutional clients, and auditors.

• Ability to travel to the United States periodically is a plus, as is an existing US business visa.

Compensation

This is an independent contractor engagement for candidates based in Mexico. The rate is $36.00–$48.00 USD per hour, benchmarked to the Mexican market for a US-facing leadership role, plus a 10% quarterly incentive tied to department performance.

Core Values

To be considered for this position, you must connect deeply with Evernest's core values:

• Win Together – We put our team, the company, and our clients first. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

• Do the Right Thing – We hold ourselves to the highest level of accountability and are transparent with each other, our clients, and our customers.

• Own the Outcome – We are results-obsessed and continuously improve our clients' experience.

• Embrace the Grind – We do whatever it takes to deliver meaningful results.

• Grow Daily – We are committed to improving ourselves and Evernest. We don't accept mediocrity.

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field; deep US property management accounting experience; trust accounting expertise; leadership managing managers; fluent English; US Central Time hours; AppFolio, Excel, Google Workspace; CPA or Contador Público a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• managing accounting team
• delivering monthly close
• ensuring trust compliance

Skills & Tools

AppFolio, Microsoft Excel, Google Workspace

Job Details

• Category: Finance and Accounting
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time, Contract
• Workplace: Remote — Mexico
• Salary: USD 74,880 – 99,840 / year
• Languages: English

About Evernest

A full-service real estate and property management company managing thousands of homes across the nation. — Industry: Finance