Corporate Accounting Manager

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.

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 Net Suite 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.

• 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 Net Suite, 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…