Accounting Manager

About the role

We're transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we're here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That's why we're building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end close across assigned GL areas — journal entries, reconciliations, and flux analysis — with a relentless focus on accuracy, speed, and reducing manual effort close-over-close.
• Develop and maintain deep understanding of Engine's revenue model and business economics — enough to anticipate the accounting implications of product and commercial decisions before they hit the GL.
• Apply deep expertise in revenue recognition to ensure GAAP-compliance in both accounting for existing revenue streams and in building frameworks for new streams if they launch.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Engineering, Finance, and Operations on accounting for new and evolving areas of the business — often before a playbook exists.
• Work directly with large, complex datasets to support accurate and complete accounting records, navigating and manipulating data across systems to drive close deliverables and substantiate positions.
• Build and maintain automation workflows using AI tools (Claude, Gemini, Cowork, or equivalent) and reporting platforms to eliminate recurring manual work and compress close timelines.
• Partner with the data team to investigate issues at root cause, assess full population impact, and implement solutions that hold up at scale.
• Communicate accounting findings, data investigations, and process changes clearly to Finance, Product, and business leadership — translating complexity into actionable insight and empowering data-driven decisions.
• Prepare timely, well-organized support for financial audits, quarterly close packages, and technical accounting memos.

Requirements

• CPA strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with manager-level ownership over complex close processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong technical accounting foundation, especially in ASC 606 and revenue recognition.
• Demonstrated experience building or deploying AI/automation tools to reduce manual accounting work.

Qualifications

• Experience working with large, complex datasets to validate accounting outcomes, investigate discrepancies, and support scalable close processes.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous situations: you move quickly, explain your reasoning clearly, and back your decisions with documentation.
• Strong ability to collaborate with product and data engineers — you understand how systems work well enough to ask the right questions, identify gaps, and ensure accounting requirements are built in, not bolted on.
• Start-to-finish ownership mentality — you don't leave work in someone else's inbox. You close the loop.
• You understand the economics behind the numbers, not just how to post the entry.
• You are self-directed: you surface problems with proposed solutions attached, escalate the right things at the right time, and manage multiple deliverables to completion under deadline pressure.
• Proficiency in NetSuite or comparable ERP.

Skills

• Strong technical accounting foundation, especially in ASC 606 and revenue recognition.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets to validate accounting outcomes, investigate discrepancies, and support scalable close processes.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous situations: you move quickly, explain your reasoning clearly, and back your decisions with documentation.
• Strong ability to collaborate with product and data engineers — you understand how systems work well enough to ask the right questions, identify gaps, and ensure accounting requirements are built in, not bolted on.
• Start-to-finish ownership mentality — you don't leave work in someone else's inbox. You close the loop.
• You understand the economics behind the numbers, not just how to post the entry.
• You are self-directed: you surface problems with proposed solutions attached, escalate the right things at the right time, and manage multiple deliverables to completion under deadline pressure.
• Proficiency in NetSuite or comparable ERP.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Pay

Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Schedule

Hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed.