Accounting Lead

About EliseAI

At EliseAI were improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare yet both are often harder to secure than they should be.

By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows we make them more efficient reduce costs and improve the experience for everyone.

• Housing: We simplify how renters tour apartments sign leases submit maintenance requests and stay connected with their property teambringing everything they need for their home into one place.

• Healthcare: We make it easy to schedule appointments complete intake forms and we help patients communicate with providers so everyone can focus on health instead of paperwork.

With EliseAI organizations reduce manual work improve accessibility and deliver a seamless experience across essential services. We recently raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate this mission.

About The Role

EliseAIs Finance team is responsible for building a scalable high-integrity financial foundation to support the companys rapid growth. As we scale accounting cannot rely on manual processeswe are intentionally building a function that is automated system-driven and designed to operate efficiently at scale.

As an Accounting Manager/Lead youll play a central role in both operating and rebuilding how accounting works at Elise. Youll own key areas of the close while also identifying opportunities to automate streamline and redesign workflows across the team

Day to day that means owning core accounting operations while continuously pushing toward a faster more reliable and lower-touch close. Youll work within our existing tools and systems to implement automation improve data flows and create processes that can scale with the business. Youll bring strong accounting judgment attention to detail and a builder mindset to reduce complexity and drive efficiency across the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Own core areas of the month-end close (GL reconciliations accruals reporting) while actively redesigning how the close is executed

• Identify manual fragmented workflows and replace them with automated system-driven processes

• Build automation across accounting operations (recs journal entries data ingestion reporting) with the goal of reducing human intervention

• Take full ownership of improving close speed reliability and scalability while continuously pushing toward a low-touch close

• Design and implement standardized workflows that eliminate inconsistency and reduce dependency on tribal knowledge

• Own and optimize financial systems (ERP and adjacent tools) as a core part of the role not just usage but how they are structured and leveraged

• Ensure financial data is clean structured and flows correctly across systems proactively fixing root causes

• Rethink and evolve core structures (chart of accounts mappings reporting logic) to support scale from first principles

• Actively seek out inefficiencies and build solutions end-to-end rather than working around broken processes

• Balance speed and automation with strong controls ensuring systems are both efficient and audit-ready

Move at rocket speed build something massive.

Were scaling fast solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here you own your impact; full autonomy no micromanagement no fluff.

We hire the best expect the best and give you the masterclass of your career. Its hard its intense and its the most rewarding work youll ever do. If youre hungry driven and ready to build something massive climb aboard.

Requirements

Were looking for someone who combines strong accounting fundamentals with a builder mindset:

• Background in accounting (e.g. public accounting Big 4 or in-house at a high-growth company) with strong understanding of core processes (close GL reconciliations reporting controls)

• Strong inclination toward automation and efficiency; you naturally look for ways to eliminate manual work and reduce complexity

• Experience working with ERP systems and accounting tools with an understanding of how systems should be structured to scale

• Comfortable working with large datasets data flows and identifying root causes of discrepancies

• High attention to detail with strong ownership over accuracy and outcomes

• Bias toward action and ability to independently drive improvements end-to-end

• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating in ambiguity

• Ability to balance speed automation and strong controls in a high-growth environment

• Excited to help build a modern system-driven accounting function from the ground up

• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week

Why Join

Growth and impact. Its not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup thats scaling so fast. That means that instead of following a playbook youll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. Youll learn what works when you succeed and what doesnt when you fail. Either way the rest of the team will be here to support you.

Benefits

• In addition to the growth and impact youll have at EliseAI we offer competitive salaries along with the following benefits:

• Equity in the company

• Medical Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%

• Fully paid parental leave

• Commuter benefits

• 401k benefits

• Monthly fitness stipend

• A collaborative in-office environment with an open floor plan fully stocked kitchen and company-paid lunch

• Fun company social events through our Elise and the City program

• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays

• Well cover relocation packages and make the move exciting not painful!

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $160000 - $230000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary equity and a comprehensive benefits & perks package. Exact compensation is determined based on a number of factors including experience skill level location and qualifications which are assessed during the interview process. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided by our Recruiting Team during the hiring process.

EliseAI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Please note that employment with EliseAI is on an at-will basis which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the employment relationship at any time with or without cause or notice.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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