Corporate Accounting Manager

Company Overview

Property management is one of the largest, most important, and least modernized service industries. More than 35 million Americans live in the country's 20+ million apartment units, which are owned by investors, inhabited by residents, and managed by on-site employees, corporate teams, and external vendors.

Today, the industry is highly fragmented. Many operators still run on manual workflows, disconnected data, inconsistent processes, and subscale shared resources. It is a massive coordination problem hiding in plain sight.

Lightswitch is building the category-defining property management platform. We acquire leading regional operators, integrate them into a single operating company, and use purpose-built technology to improve service quality, decision-making, and profitability.

This is not a traditional private equity roll-up or pure software company. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and led by a founding team with roots in private equity, real estate, and technology, Lightswitch is combining acquisitions, operating discipline, permanent capital, and AI-native technology to transform a large, fragmented industry from the inside.

Role Overview

This role can be remote anywhere in the United States, with quarterly travel to New York City to work with the team. Employment visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Lightswitch is hiring a Corporate Accounting Manager to own the recurring accounting work behind a growing group of companies. Reporting to the VP, Accounting, you will run the corporate close, prepare multi-entity consolidations and eliminations, and review brand closes. Your work will give the business reliable financial information and give the VP capacity to focus on larger projects and acquisition integrations.

You will work directly in the books: preparing entries and reconciliations, resolving intercompany differences, reviewing brand submissions and following discrepancies through to resolution. You will also own recurring corporate cash and AP workflows, prepare reporting schedules and variance commentary, and maintain clear support for the numbers. You will prepare the corporate close and consolidated reporting for the VP's review and sign-off.

As Lightswitch grows, the accounting process needs to become more repeatable and less manual. You will improve how NetSuite is used, document workflows, and apply automation and AI where they make the work more accurate or efficient. You will partner with Engineering when a solution needs technical development and remain accountable for checking the accounting results.

This is an individual contributor role with direct ownership of the work and room to shape how the function operates. You will help build an accounting process that can absorb new companies, handle increasing complexity and deliver dependable reporting through growth.

Who You Are

• Accounting judgment: You care about the details behind the financial statements. You investigate an unexplained balance, distinguish a timing difference from an error, and know when an issue needs escalation.

• Hands-on ownership: You take responsibility for getting the work finished and supported. You prepare entries, reconcile accounts and close issues without waiting for someone else to chase them.

• Systems curiosity: You look for ways to use NetSuite, automation and AI to improve accounting work. You test ideas, check the outputs and keep the reasoning and support reviewable.

• Creative problem solving: You can turn an unfamiliar accounting or workflow problem into a practical solution, explain the tradeoffs and improve the approach as you learn.

• Growth mindset: You are comfortable with changing entity structures, incomplete processes and increasing transaction volumes. You build repeatable methods while keeping the current close moving.

• Clear communication: You can explain an intercompany discrepancy or close adjustment to a brand accountant or operating leader, make the required action clear and follow through to resolution.

What You've Done

• Multi-entity consolidation: You have prepared consolidated financial statements and elimination entries across multiple legal entities. You can explain how you reconciled intercompany activity, resolved mismatches and tied the consolidation back to the books.

• Accounting experience: You bring progressive accounting experience, typically 6+ years, with hands-on ownership of monthly close, journal entries, accruals, cutoff and balance-sheet reconciliations under US GAAP. You have prepared workpapers another accountant could review and rely on. Equivalent demonstrated depth of experience will be considered.

• Close review: You have reviewed reconciliations, entity submissions or financial statements, identified issues and worked with the preparers to resolve them before reporting.

• NetSuite accounting: You have used NetSuite in accounting or close work and are comfortable investigating transactions, reconciling reports and understanding how activity flows through the ledger.

• Scaling operations: You have worked in an organization where growth or acquisitions changed the workload, systems or entity structure, and helped keep the accounting accurate through that change.

• Process improvement: You have improved a recurring accounting workflow using better system configuration, spreadsheets, automation or AI. You can explain the problem, what you changed and how you verified that the result was better.

• Education and credentials: You have a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field, or equivalent practical accounting experience. A CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification is preferred, not required.

Preferred Experience

• Ramp: Hands-on experience using Ramp for corporate AP, cards or reimbursements, including reconciliation with the accounting system.

• Property management: Experience supporting accounting for a property-management operator or platform.

• Platform roll-ups: Experience in an acquisition-driven, multi-brand platform or roll-up, including onboarding acquired entities, standardizing accounting processes or integrating close and consolidation workflows.

• Public accounting and audit: Experience in public accounting or supporting external audits.