Accounting Manager

About the role

As our Accounting Manager, reporting to our Head of Finance, you'll own two things that matter a great deal right now: supporting external financial statement audits, and running the multi-entity close and consolidation as we add entities, currencies, and licenses. This is a hands-on role on a small team. You'll be in the detail, preparing schedules, writing technical memos, and reconciling settlement activity, while also building the process and documentation that lets us scale past the current setup.

Responsibilities

• Audit management: Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for our external auditors, managing the PBC list, fieldwork logistics, and issue resolution through to signed opinion. Build audit-ready support: reconciliations, roll-forwards, and workpapers with clear tie-out to the general ledger. Draft technical accounting memos on judgment areas, such as principal vs. agent revenue presentation under ASC 606, reserve and loss estimates, capitalized software, and equity and stock compensation. Identify control gaps surfaced during the audit and drive remediation.
• Multi-entity accounting and consolidation: Own the monthly close across our legal entities, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, and the consolidated reporting package. Manage foreign currency remeasurement and translation under ASC 830. Maintain the intercompany framework, including transfer pricing entries, cost allocations, and settlement between entities. Produce consolidated financial statements with variance analysis and commentary.
• Payments-specific accounting: Account for settlement activity: merchant payables, in-transit funds, sponsor bank and FBO account reconciliations, and restricted cash presentation. Manage interchange, network, and processing cost accounting. Own chargeback, refund, and merchant credit loss reserve methodology.
• Process and systems: Tighten the close calendar and reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy. Improve reconciliation automation between processor data, banking partners, and the GL. Contribute to an ongoing assessment of the accounting and tax tech stack.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting at a mid-tier or Big 4 firm.
• Direct accounting experience at a payments company, fintech, bank, lender, or other regulated financial services business.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-entity consolidation, including intercompany eliminations and multi-currency reporting.
• Experience running or playing a lead role in an external financial statement audit.
• Advanced Excel, with real comfort working with large transaction-level datasets from processors or core banking systems.
• Some experience applying AI to accounting workflows.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments without an established playbook.
• A builder mentality with a strong bias toward action.
• Excited to use AI and automation to work smarter and rethink existing processes.
• Comfortable getting into the details and doing the work, regardless of seniority.

Nice to Have

• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
• CPA or equivalent.
• Familiarity with money transmitter licensing, FBO account structures, or crypto and stablecoin settlement accounting.
• Experience with multi-book, multi-currency ERPs, plus tools like Modern Treasury or Ramp.
• BigQuery or comparable ability to pull your own data.

What Success Looks Like

• 90 days: You own the close for your entities, know where the reconciliation pain lives, and have a documented audit readiness plan.
• 6 months: Audit fieldwork is underway with clean support, and close runs on a repeatable process with visible improvements.
• 9 months: Audit complete. Close cycle materially shorter and technically deeper. The accounting function is one an investor or lender can diligence without surprises.

Benefits

• Health coverage: Breeze covers 100% of employee premiums on our competitive base plan and 75% of dependent premiums.
• PTO: 21 days, plus applicable company holidays.
• 401(k): Breeze covers all plan administration fees.
• Equity: Meaningful ownership in the company you're helping build.
• Equipment: A new MacBook Air and whatever else you need to do your best work.
• Office & education allowance: An annual budget for your workspace, tools, and professional development.
• Wellness: A monthly reimbursement to support your well-being.
• Annual global offsite: We bring the global Breeze team together every year.

Pay

Estimated Compensation: $130k – $150k salary + Bonus and Equity Options

Schedule

This role is hybrid and based in New York City. We believe there is real value in building together in person. This role is expected to work from our NYC office at least 3 days per week.