Senior Accounting Manager

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Accounting Manager ready to own accounting, payroll, and day-to-day people operations end to end, someone who would rather rebuild a process than defend one. This is a player-coach role. You report to our Chief Administrative Officer and run the function with a small team: a staff accountant (AP and utility rebates) and an office/people-ops administrator. You will close the books, review payroll, answer benefits questions, and then make each of those faster and more automated the next time around.

What you'll own

• Systems and automation. You'll implement and re-implement tools, kill spreadsheets, wire integrations (Ramp, Gusto, HubSpot, QuickBooks), and use AI agents for reconciliations, variance analysis, and reporting. Where a step can be automated, we expect you to automate it.
• Month-end close. A clean, GAAP-basis close in QuickBooks Online that lands within five business days and keeps getting faster: reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue, fixed assets, and a financial package leadership consumes.
• Cash. Daily cash visibility, the weekly cash forecast, bank reconciliations, and a tight partnership with project coordinators on invoicing and collections (target DSO under 19 days on homeowner invoices).
• Revenue and job economics. Revenue recognition on multi-visit installs, job-level margin, utility-rebate receivables (Mass Save and partner programs), and customer financing flows.
• Accounts payable and spend. Vendor bills, corporate cards, and approvals in Ramp, tied out to QuickBooks every month.
• Payroll. Salaried and hourly runs in Gusto, built from Connecteam timecards: overtime, PTO, commissions, bonuses, retro pay.
• Day-to-day people operations. Onboarding and offboarding across Gusto and Google Workspace, benefits enrollment and changes, headcount and comp changes, compliance recordkeeping (I-9s, workers' comp, state filings), and logistics for review and raise cycles.
• Year-end and outside parties. Tax package for our outside CPAs, 1099s, insurance audits, and lender or investor requests as they come.

You'll thrive here if

• You have at least 4 years of progressive accounting experience, including real ownership of a monthly close at a company of roughly our size. CPA is a nice to have; not required.
• You have run payroll hands-on.
• You've led at least one system migration or implementation and would happily do another.
• Constant change energizes you. Our processes are drafts; the person who improves them wins.
• You already use AI tools in your daily work and want to push further.
• You can explain a number to a field supervisor, a salesperson, and a CEO, and hear what they need in return.
• Job costing, construction, field service, or climate-tech exposure is a plus. Curiosity about how heat pumps get sold, installed, and paid for is required.

What we offer

• Compensation: $100,000 to $140,000 base, depending on experience.
• Benefits: Health and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, PTO and paid holidays.
• Hybrid work: At least three days a week in our Newton office; remote the rest.
• Real ownership: You will continue to build the finance and people-ops functions for a company determined to grow: the systems, the cadence, the playbook. We expect this seat to grow into broader finance leadership as we scale.
• Small, direct leadership team: You'll work with the CEO, CRO, and CAO every week. Decisions are made fast and explained.

How we hire

We move quickly: a 15-30-minute phone conversation with our Recruiting team, an interview with the CAO, a working session on a case study drawn from our business, and a final round with the CEO and CRO. You'll hear back on next steps along the way.