Accounting Manager

About the Role

What You'll Do

• Own monthly bookkeeping and close across a growing portfolio of studio-built companies.
• Deliver accurate monthly financials on a timeline that gives portfolio leadership useful visibility into the business.
• Manage accounting onboarding and setup as new companies launch from the studio.
• Partner with fractional offshore accounting support to distribute work and manage increasing portfolio volume.
• Maintain consistent accounting practices across companies while adapting to the needs and maturity of each business.
• Serve as a day-to-day accounting partner to portfolio company leadership.

• Support the UP.Labs monthly close, including expense categorization, reconciliations, and other recurring accounting work.
• Support tax compliance and own the tax filing calendar, working directly with external tax advisors on federal and state tax matters.
• Support our financial audit readiness and interface with external auditors as UP.Labs moves through its first audit.
• Identify accounting issues, recommend the appropriate treatment, and flag areas where additional technical expertise is needed.

• Work across QuickBooks, which serves as the accounting system of record for UP.Labs and our portfolio companies.
• Manage workflows across Bill.com and Expensify for UP.Labs and Ramp across the portfolio companies.
• Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to drive efficiency across accounting and financial workflows.
• Improve close processes, reporting cadence, and accounting workflows as the organization scales.
• Bring structure and judgment to an environment where processes will not always be fully documented or systematized.

What We're Looking For

• CPA required.
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant accounting experience, with a strong foundation in public accounting/audit followed by operating experience.
• Ideally 2+ years of audit experience at a Big Four or comparable accounting firm.
• Meaningful accounting experience inside an early-stage, high-growth, or similarly fast-moving operating environment.
• Strong understanding of monthly close, financial reporting, and core accounting principles.
• Experience working with external auditors and tax advisors.
• Comfortable owning work independently and speaking up when something does not look right.
• Able to move between higher-level accounting judgment and detailed execution without seeing either as beneath the role.
• Comfortable operating across multiple entities and managing competing month-end priorities.
• High tolerance for ambiguity, changing processes, and one-off problems that require judgment rather than a playbook.