Jr. Controller

About the role

This is a finance role with real breadth. You will be embedded across the Leverage Companies platform — supporting private lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate financial records across Leverage Companies entities — lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across the platform, ensuring books are clean and reconciled on time
• Prepare and review financial statements across multiple entities, including consolidation support as the platform picture matures
• Execute journal entries and account reconciliations across QuickBooks entities with precision and proper documentation
• Identify discrepancies across systems and data sources early — flag them clearly, resolve them fast
• Track budgets and financials for company-level functions including Deals & Dollars and other in-house events, ensuring clean roll-up into the platform P&L
• Private Lending — Brick City Capital: Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management
• Aid in revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division — tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources
• Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures
• Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution
• Asset Management & Development: Support financial reporting across the ~300-door single and multifamily portfolio — property-level and entity-level
• Aid in entity accounting for active development projects across New Jersey as they move through construction, stabilization, and disposition phases
• Support acquisition entity accounting as Leverage Homes contracts are executed, assigned, or closed into the portfolio
• Aid in bank reconciliations, draw tracking, and cost accounting on active development and rehab projects
• Actively participate in financial system improvements — we use Salesforce and QuickBooks and we expect this person to understand how they connect, not just how to post
• Identify manual processes that should be automated or restructured and bring solutions, not just observations
• Actively explore and adopt AI tools and new Ramp features as they roll out — we move quickly on tooling that makes the team more precise and more efficient
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of internal controls as the platform and transaction volume scale
• Support audit preparation, tax coordination, and compliance requirements across entities
• Collaborate with external auditors and tax advisors; ensure documentation is clean and ready

Requirements

• 3–5 years of accounting experience — private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP and multi-entity accounting structures
• Proficiency in QuickBooks — not just data entry, but a genuine understanding of COA design, class-based tracking, and entity structure
• Comfort working across data exports, reconciliations, and multi-source financial tieouts
• Tech-forward mindset: you see broken processes and you want to fix them, not work around them
• Proficiency in Ramp or equivalent modern AP platform — we use Ramp for AP, expense management, and memo coding, and we actively adopt new features as they roll out
• Active and comfortable user of AI tools in your day-to-day finance workflow — drafting, research, reconciliation support, process thinking. This is how we work, not an add-on
• Ability to get into the details of a complex business quickly, ask the right questions, and operate with minimal hand-holding

Qualifications

• Experience with fund accounting — investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, NAV calculations
• Exposure to real estate entity accounting: acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios
• Familiarity with Salesforce or any CRM/ERP used as a financial source of truth
• Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics: origination, warehouse lines, loan-level economics
• CPA or active CPA candidate
• Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job
• Familiarity with Ramp’s AI-assisted features — memo coding, automated categorization, or AP workflow automation

Skills

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Time management and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$80,000 - $100,000/year (Exempt/Salary)

Schedule

Hybrid (minimum 3 days in office)