Accounting Manager
- Compensation
- $155K–$180K / yr
- Location
- New York
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- You’ve owned a close. 5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including full ownership of a monthly close — calendar, entries, reconciliations, and the deadline.
- You’re credentialed. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA strongly preferred.
- Your GAAP and controls are real. Accruals, cutoffs, revenue recognition, inventory/COGS accounting, and internal controls you can apply without looking them up, and explain to a non-accountant.
- You have range. Equally credible posting a journal entry and writing the policy that governs it. Controller-level judgment, bookkeeper-level willingness.
- You’re strong with systems. Deep QuickBooks Online (or equivalent ERP) skills, comfort with integrated fintech stacks like Ramp and bill-pay tools, and ideally a migration or implementation under your
- You’re accurate under deadline. Detail-obsessed, tie-out disciplined, and calm when close week collides with an urgent ask.
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity. Processes are being built, not inherited. You’d rather write the SOP than ask for one.
Nice to have
- Inventory, manufacturing, commodities, or distribution accounting experience
- Asset-based lending or borrowing base reporting experience
- Public accounting foundation (audit) before moving into industry
- ERP evaluation, implementation, or migration experience
- Experience preparing for a first audit or investor diligence
- Hands-on use of AI tools in accounting workflows
Full description
ROLE DETAILSLocation
Onsite in New York, NY — 5 days per week in office
ABOUT OUTLAST
Outlast is building the technology infrastructure for the recycled commodities supply chain. We’re creating a more efficient, transparent, and sustainable market for secondary raw materials.
We’re a small, fast-moving team that uses technology and AI to do things the industry hasn’t seen before. If you’re looking for a role at a large company with established playbooks, this isn’t it. If you want to build something from scratch and see your work directly impact the business, keep reading.
THE ROLE
We’re looking for an Accounting & Controls Manager to own Outlast’s books end-to-end — and grow into our Controller. You’ll run the monthly close, keep the day-to-day transactional engine clean, own inventory accounting for physical metal, manage cash and our credit-facility reporting, and build the control environment a scaling company needs before its first audit, not after. You’ll be the primary point of contact for our external auditors and banks.
This is a hands-on role by design. Some days you’re setting an accounting policy, preparing a borrowing base certificate, or scoping an ERP migration; other days you’re posting a journal entry, chasing a vendor bill, or reconciling a bank feed. No task is beneath the role — but the trajectory is up: as the company roughly doubles in size, this seat becomes the Controller seat, and we want to hire the person who can make that climb.
You’ll report to our VP of Finance & Business Operations and partner with a Finance & Strategy Manager who owns the forecast, you produce the reconciled actuals everything else is built on. Our stack is deeply integrated: QuickBooks Online, Ramp, and our own platform sync invoices and bills automatically, and AI agents handle a growing share of the transactional work. You’ll supervise and improve that machine, not fight it.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own the monthly close. Run the close calendar end-to-end, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, flux review, and deliver reconciled financial statements on a fixed timeline, every month. Investigate and explain key variances. The trial balance ties, or you know exactly why not.
- Keep the books clean every day. AP and AR workflows, bill processing, billing and cash application, expense management. Hands-on bookkeeping when it’s needed, you’d rather fix it than file a ticket.
- Own inventory accounting. We buy, process, and sell physical metal. Cost per pound, inventory GL integrity, and the reconciliation between our operating platform and the ledger are core to this seat, this is where scrap gets hard, and where you earn your keep.