Accounting Lead

About The Role

EliseAI’s Finance team is responsible for building a scalable, high-integrity financial foundation to support the company’s rapid growth. As we scale, accounting cannot rely on manual processes—we are intentionally building a function that is automated, system-driven, and designed to operate efficiently at scale.

As an Accounting Manager/Lead you’ll play a central role in both operating and rebuilding how accounting works at Elise. You’ll 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. You’ll work within our existing tools and systems to implement automation, improve data flows, and create processes that can scale with the business. You’ll 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.

Requirements

We’re 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. It’s not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup that’s scaling so fast. That means that instead of following a playbook, you’ll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. You’ll learn what works when you succeed and what doesn’t when you fail. Either way, the rest of the team will be here to support you.

Benefits

In addition to the growth and impact you’ll 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
• We'll cover relocation packages and make the move exciting, not painful!

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000. 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.