Senior Accounting Manager

Senior Accounting Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - 3-4 days in Presidio office)

Reports to: VP of Accounting

Compensation: 150k-185k/yr + equity

About Bungalow

Bungalow is a technology-driven property management platform consolidating a fragmented $100B+ industry. Through our Landmark brand, we acquire traditional property management companies and transform their operations using AI and automation, scaling while improving service quality. Backed by Khosla Ventures and other top-tier investors, we're scaling rapidly through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

The Role

We're hiring a Senior Accounting Manager to own corporate accounting as we scale through acquisitions and migrate to modern accounting infrastructure. This is a hands-on role with a clear trajectory: you'll start by owning a significant portion of our balance sheet and property-level reconciliations across multiple entities, then drive the automation strategy that eliminates manual work from the close entirely.

Reporting to our VP of Accounting and partnering closely with the Assistant Controller of Property Accounting, you'll join a small accounting team running an efficient close cycle. Your job is to take real ownership of that workload & help build the processes and tooling that let this function scale with our acquisition pace.

What You'll Do

Financial Statement Close (and supporting processes)

• Own the full Balance Sheet and Income Statement monthly close process, end-to-end, consolidating multiple entities and working towards a best-in-class close timing of Business Day 8
• Support the reconciliation of property-level accounts including tenant ledgers, security deposit ledgers, pre-paid rent, and owner payment schedules
• Represent Accounting in substantially all financial and operational processes, including review and approval
• Be the primary point of contact with the external auditors and tax team
• Assist with owner payment processing and property delinquency reporting as needed
• Identify and resolve variances independently — escalating to the VP of Accounting primarily for material or judgment-heavy items
• Support the close cycle, proactively flagging risks to completion

Systems & Automation

• Document current-state reconciliation processes to build the automation roadmap
• Manage and enhance Campfire operations — maintaining reconciliations and driving process improvements as well as reporting build-out of categorizations, classifications, and aggregations (particularly within the context of property management systems reporting, such as AppFolio)
• Identify and deploy AI and automation tools to eliminate manual close work (LLM-assisted matching, anomaly detection, auto-generated journal entries)
• Build repeatable workflows that reduce close cycle time every quarter
• Partner with finance and integrations teams to ensure new processes scale with acquisition volume (2-4 deals per year), including assisting with opening balance sheet reconciliations and system migrations for acquired companies
• Adapt reconciliation and property accounting processes as new entities are added to consolidated reporting

What We're Looking For

Required

• 6-8+ years of progressive accounting experience with at least 3 years as an auditor (Big 4 not required)
• CPA (active not required)
• Experience at a venture-backed or PE-backed growth company, ideally in tech
• Have lived through at least one system migration or ERP implementation, and can speak to best practices working with new accounting and non-financial personnel
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight — the goal is to reduce review burden, not add to it
• Multi-entity consolidation experience

Strongly Preferred / Not Required

• Interest in property management and/or real estate accounting — you are a quick learner and can adopt a strong understanding of tenant ledgers, owner statements, and property-level reporting (AppFolio experience is a plus)
• Genuine interest in AI and accounting automation — you've experimented with emerging tools or built your own workflow automations
• Familiarity with Campfire or similar modern cloud-based accounting platforms; an opinion on what ERPs and other systems you use as to benefits and detriments

Why Join Us

• Ownership: Own a critical piece of the close from day one, then own the automation strategy that transforms it
• Impact: Every acquisition we close adds complexity to the accounting function — your work directly enables our growth trajectory
• Growth: This role evolves fast — from hands-on reconciliations to systems ownership to potential team leadership as we scale
• Equity: Meaningful equity stake in a company with a clear path to significant value creation