Senior Accounting Manager

Title: Senior Accounting Manager Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - 3-4 days in Presidio office) Reports to: VP of Accounting

Compensation: 150k-185k/yr + equity About Bungalow Bungalow is a technology-driven property management platform consolidating a fragmented $100B+ industry. Through our Landmark brand, we acquire traditional property management companies and transform their operations using AI and automation, scaling while improving service quality. Backed by Khosla Ventures and other top-tier investors, we're scaling rapidly through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

The Role We're hiring a Senior Accounting Manager to own corporate accounting as we scale through acquisitions and migrate to modern accounting infrastructure. This is a hands-on role with a clear trajectory: you'll start by owning a significant portion of our balance sheet and property-level reconciliations across multiple entities, then drive the automation strategy that eliminates manual work from the close entirely. Reporting to our VP of Accounting and partnering closely with the Assistant Controller of Property Accounting, you'll join a small accounting team running an efficient close cycle. Your job is to take real ownership of that workload & help build the processes and tooling that let this function scale with our acquisition pace.

What You'll Do Financial Statement Close (and supporting processes) Own the full Balance Sheet and Income Statement monthly close process, end-to-end, consolidating multiple entities and working towards a best-in-class close timing of Business Day 8 Support the reconciliation of property-level accounts including tenant ledgers, security deposit ledgers, pre-paid rent, and owner payment schedules Represent Accounting in substantially all financial and operational processes, including review and approval Be the primary point of contact with the external auditors and tax team Assist with owner payment processing and property delinquency reporting as needed Identify and resolve variances independently — escalating to the VP of Accounting primarily for material or judgment-heavy items Support the close cycle, proactively flagging risks to completion Systems & Automation Document current-state reconciliation processes to build the automation roadmap Manage and enhance Campfire operations — maintaining reconciliations and driving process improvements as well as reporting build-out of categorizations, classifications, and aggregations (particularly within the context of property management systems reporting, such as AppFolio) Identify and deploy AI and automation tools to eliminate manual close work (LLM-assisted matching, anomaly detection, auto-generated journal entries) Build repeatable workflows that reduce close cycle time every quarter Partner with finance and integrations teams to ensure new processes scale with acquisition volume (2-4 deals per year), including assisting with opening balance sheet reconciliations and system migrations for acquired companies Adapt reconciliation and property accounting processes as new entities are added to consolidated reporting