Accounting Manager

Handsome Homebuyer is one of Long Island’s fastest growing real estate investment companies, specializing in acquiring, renovating, developing, and selling properties. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a results-driven Accounting Manager to oversee key accounting functions, strengthen financial processes, and support the company’s continued growth and success.

The Accounting Manager will be the operational leader of Handsome’s accounting function and a key partner to the VP of Finance. This is a hands-on role for someone who can own the general ledger and month-end close while also designing stronger processes, controls, and documentation. The Accounting Manager will supervise and develop the A/P Specialist, coordinate with property and operations leaders, and help transition recurring accounting activities from the company’s outsourced provider to a sustainable internal model.

The right candidate combines strong technical accounting judgment with an operator’s mindset. You should be comfortable moving between detailed reconciliations, multi-entity accounting, process improvement, team leadership, and explaining financial issues clearly to non-accounting partners.

• Lead the monthly close across multiple legal entities and QBO instances, with a goal of delivering a controlled financial package by business day five.
• Own general-ledger integrity, including account reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, debt, cash, revenue recognition, WIP, intercompany activity, allocations, and consolidation support.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account analyses, roll forwards, and supporting schedules; ensure every material balance has complete and auditable support.
• Build and maintain the close calendar, checklist, preparer/reviewer assignments, daily issue log, and escalation process.
• Supervise, coach, and cross-train the A/P Specialist; establish priorities, review work quality, and create reliable backup coverage.
• Administer disciplined procure-to-pay controls, including vendor setup, invoice coding, approval evidence, payment-batch review, duplicate-payment prevention, and vendor bank-change verification.
• Prepare bank and credit-card reconciliations independently from employees who process deposits or payments; investigate unusual or stale reconciling items.
• Reconcile property-management activity, tenant receipts, receivables, deposits, and the general ledger by property and legal entity.
• Maintain and reconcile intercompany balances across the organization; ensure both sides are recorded in the same period and support elimination entries.
• Maintain debt, investor obligation, notes-receivable, fixed-asset, insurance, property-tax, and entity-compliance schedules.
• Support project and renovation accounting through job-cost, committed-cost, change-order, WIP, capitalization, and margin-at-completion reviews.
• Review payroll registers and approved employee changes; coordinate accurate payroll entries and funding while preserving access segregation.
• Develop documented accounting policies, standard operating procedures, reconciliation standards, and evidence-retention practices.
• Execute and test internal controls; maintain the control exception register and drive timely remediation.
• Partner with the VP of Finance on monthly financial packages, variance analysis, audit/tax support, forecasts, KPI reporting, and leadership requests.
• Lead knowledge transfer, shadowing, reverse-shadowing, and ownership transition from the outsourced accounting provider.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will…