# Engagement Lead, Future Platforms | Housing

**Company:** [EliseAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/eliseai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $160k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** accounting, finance, general ledger, reconciliations, chart of accounts, data migration, system configuration, Vendor Management, payment workflows, implementation management, close processes, Product Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Leads client accounting platform implementations from discovery and configuration through migration, launch, stabilization, and adoption. The role requires accounting or finance expertise, experience managing complex client-facing projects, and the ability to build scalable implementation playbooks.

## Job Description

## 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 Decision-Making
- Partner with Controllers, CFOs, and finance teams to understand current-state workflows and define future-state processes.
- Drive implementation decisions involving bank account onboarding, vendor onboarding and payment workflows, chart of accounts structure and usage, and transaction and charge code design.
- Translate ambiguous accounting needs into clear system configurations and requirements.

### Own Configuration and Implementation
- Lead chart of accounts configuration, vendor and entity setup, and transaction and workflow mapping.
- Gather, validate, and refine client data inputs.
- Validate general ledger structures, identify inconsistencies, and resolve gaps.

### Drive Migration and Post-Launch Success
- Ensure readiness for data migration and system cutover.
- Lead post-launch reconciliations and financial data validation.
- Stabilize accounting workflows in the new system.
- Kickstart close processes and operational rhythms.
- Own 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 effective accounting implementations at scale.

## Requirements

- 5–8 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, product management, and/or founder/operator roles at high-growth startups.
- Background in accounting or finance, such as former Controller, Senior Accountant, accounting consultant, or accounting-focused operator; experience in a high-growth or technology-enabled environment is preferred.
- Experience managing complex, client-facing implementations or projects.
- Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals, including general ledger, reconciliations, close processes, and workflows.
- Comfortable working with data, configurations, and systems in detail.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build trust with senior finance stakeholders.
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements under tight timelines.
- Autonomous, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
- Willingness to work in person at the office 4–5 days per week.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Salary range: **$160,000–$250,000**.
- Competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits and perks.
- Equity in the company.
- Medical, dental, and vision premiums covered at 100%.
- Fully paid parental leave.
- Commuter benefits.
- 401(k) benefits.
- Fitness and home services stipend.
- Collaborative in-office environment with meals provided.
- Unlimited vacation and paid holidays.
- Relocation packages.

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