Staff Accountant/Jr. Controller

The Opportunity:

This is a finance role with real breadth. You will be embedded across the Leverage Companies platform — supporting private lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations — each with its own accounting structure, entity setup, and operational rhythm.

We operate with a straightforward standard: when we see a gap, we address it with speed and precision. That applies to the books, the processes, the systems, and the controls. This role exists because we are growing and we need someone who holds that standard too — someone who can step into a complex, multi-entity environment, get oriented quickly, and make things more accurate and more efficient than they found them.

You will be mentored directly by finance leadership with both deep accounting roots and extensive experience leading ERP and financial system transformations. The expectation is that you grow into this business fast, develop strong opinions about how things should work, and help build the infrastructure that supports the next phase of the platform.

What you will do:

Cross-Division Financial Operations

• Maintain accurate financial records across Leverage Companies entities — lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across the platform, ensuring books are clean and reconciled on time
• Prepare and review financial statements across multiple entities, including consolidation support as the platform picture matures
• Execute journal entries and account reconciliations across QuickBooks entities with precision and proper documentation
• Identify discrepancies across systems and data sources early — flag them clearly, resolve them fast
• Track budgets and financials for company-level functions including Deals & Dollars and other in-house events, ensuring clean roll-up into the platform P&L

Private Lending — Brick City Capital

• Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management
• Assist with revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division — tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources
• Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures
• Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution

Asset Management & Development

• Support financial reporting across the ~300-door single and multifamily portfolio — property-level and entity-level
• Assist with entity accounting for active development projects across New Jersey as they move through construction, stabilization, and disposition phases
• Support acquisition entity accounting as Leverage Homes contracts are executed, assigned, or closed into the portfolio
• Assist with bank reconciliations, draw tracking, and cost accounting on active development and rehab projects

Systems, Process & Controls

• Actively participate in financial system improvements — we use Salesforce and QuickBooks and we expect this person to understand how they connect, not just how to post
• Identify manual processes that should be automated or restructured and bring solutions, not just observations
• Actively explore and adopt AI tools and new Ramp features as they roll out — we move quickly on tooling that makes the team more precise and more efficient
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of internal controls as the platform and transaction volume scale
• Support audit preparation, tax coordination, and compliance requirements across entities
• Collaborate with external auditors and tax advisors; ensure documentation is clean and ready

Location: Newark, NJ — Hybrid (minimum 3 days in office)

Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000/year (Exempt/Salary)

What we are looking for:

• 3–5 years of accounting experience — private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP and multi-entity accounting structures
• Proficiency in QuickBooks — not just data entry, but a genuine understanding of COA design, class-based tracking, and entity structure
• Comfort working across data exports, reconciliations, and multi-source financial tieouts
• Tech-forward mindset: you see broken processes and you want to fix them, not work around them
• Proficiency in Ramp or equivalent modern AP platform — we use Ramp for AP, expense management, and memo coding, and we actively adopt new features as they roll out
• Active and comfortable user of AI tools in your day-to-day finance workflow — drafting, research, reconciliation support, process thinking. This is how we work, not an add-on
• Ability to get into the details of a complex business quickly, ask the right questions, and operate with minimal hand-holding

What we Prefer to Find:

• Experience with fund accounting — investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, NAV calculations
• Exposure to real estate entity accounting: acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios
• Familiarity with Salesforce or any CRM/ERP used as a financial source of truth
• Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics: origination, warehouse lines, loan-level economics
• CPA or active CPA candidate
• Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job
• Familiarity with Ramp’s AI-assisted features — memo coding, automated categorization, or AP workflow automation

What we look for in all our employees:

• A demonstrated track record of winning; we never stop at "just enough"
• An insatiable eagerness to continuously learn and to be coached; we are lifelong learners and always make ourselves available to others to teach us something new
• A possession of strong entrepreneurial spirit; we have a burning passion for building something great out of nothing
• A big vision for themselves and those around them; we always strive to be the best version of ourselves and help those around us do the same
• An unwavering sense of integrity; an individual who roots oneself with a core belief that how one does anything is how one does everything

Additional Information:

Leverage Companies is an equal opportunity and an E-verify employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce and do not discriminate based on characteristics of any kind. Leverage Companies is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for any candidates with disabilities who may need assistance during the talent acquisition process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email

hr@leveragecompanies.com

Leverage Companies highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. Under certain circumstances, a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 3 days in office in Newark, NJ may be arranged.