# Engagement Lead, Future Platforms (Accounting) | Housing

**Company:** [EliseAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/eliseai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $190k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** Accounting, General Ledger, Gl, Reconciliations, Chart Of Accounts, Coa, Vendor Management, Bank Account Onboarding, Workflow Configuration, Data Migration, Financial Systems, Implementation Playbooks
**Posted:** 2026-05-11

> Leads end-to-end accounting implementations for AI platform clients, configuring workflows, driving migrations, ensuring post-launch stability, and building scalable processes. Requires strong accounting expertise, client-facing project management, and execution in fast-paced environment.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

- Own accounting engagement success end-to-end
- Drive the accounting portion of multiple concurrent engagements, from late-stage sales handoff through post-launch stabilization
- Roll off accounts once they are fully live and operating successfully on the platform
- Ensure accuracy, completeness, and operational readiness across all accounting workflows

### Lead accounting discovery, scoping, and decisioning
- Partner with senior accounting stakeholders (Controllers, CFOs, Finance teams) to understand current-state workflows and define future-state processes
- Drive critical implementation decisions, such as:
  - Bank account onboarding strategy
  - Vendor onboarding and payment workflows
  - Chart of accounts structure and usage
  - Transaction and charge code design
- Translate ambiguous accounting needs into clear system configurations and requirements

### Own configuration and implementation
- Lead hands-on accounting setup, including:
  - Chart of accounts (COA) configuration
  - Vendor and entity setup
  - Mapping of transactions and workflows
- Manage detailed back-and-forth with clients to gather, validate, and refine data inputs
- Ensure integrity and correctness of client-provided materials (e.g., validating GL structures, identifying inconsistencies, resolving gaps)

### Drive migration and post-launch success
- Ensure full readiness for data migration and system cutover
- Lead post-launch activities, including:
  - Reconciliations and validation of financial data
  - Stabilization of accounting workflows in the new system
  - Kickstarting close processes and operational rhythms
- Act as the primary owner of a clean, accurate transition into the platform

### Enable adoption and training
- Run trainings, walkthroughs, and tailored demos for accounting teams
- Ensure end users are confident operating within the new system
- Identify and resolve adoption blockers early

### Build scalable systems and playbooks
- Turn implementation learnings into repeatable processes, templates, and best practices
- Partner with Product and Engineering to surface gaps and improve accounting workflows
- Help define what “great” looks like for accounting implementations at scale

## Requirements

- Background in accounting or finance (e.g., former Controller, Senior Accountant, accounting consultant, or accounting-focused operator), ideally in a high-growth or tech-enabled environment
- Experience managing complex, client-facing implementations or projects
- Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals (GL, reconciliations, close process, workflows)
- Comfortable getting into the weeds with data, configurations, and systems
- Excellent communicator who can build trust with senior finance stakeholders
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple concurrent engagements under tight timelines
- Autonomous, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week

## Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $250,000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits & perks package.

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