Accounting, Governance, and Controls, Senior Manager | Housing

Accounting, Governance, and Controls, Senior Manager | Housing About EliseAI At EliseAI, we're improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare, yet both are often harder to secure than they should be. By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows, we make them more efficient, reduce costs, and improve the experience for everyone. - Housing: We simplify how renters tour apartments, sign leases, submit maintenance requests, and stay connected with their property team—bringing everything they need for their home into one place. - Healthcare: We make it easy to schedule appointments, complete intake forms, and we help patients communicate with providers, so everyone can focus on health instead of paperwork. With EliseAI, organizations reduce manual work, improve accessibility, and deliver a seamless experience across essential services. We recently raised a $250 million Series E round https://www.eliseai.com/blog/eliseai-raises-250m-series-e led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate this mission. About The Role As an Accounting, Governance, and Controls - Senior Manager, you’ll ensure EliseAI’s customer products and internal operations meet the highest bar for audit-readiness and regulatory compliance. You will help to design SOX and SOC 1 programs, bring deep accounting insight to cross-functional teams, and serve as a trusted advisor to our management team. Key Responsibilities - Own the internal controls framework – Design, document, and maintain SOX 404 and SOC 1 Type II controls (business, ITGC, and automated) that scale with our business and platform - Embed safeguards in system workflows – Partner with engineering and product to translate requirements (e.g., role-based access, audit trails) into implementation - Lead AI governance initiatives – Draft and enforce model-oversight, data-provenance, and ethics policies alongside Legal and Security teams - Provide accounting expertise – Guide engineering teams to ensure sound product and operating decisions - Continuous improvement – Monitor regulatory changes and industry best practices, refreshing frameworks proactively Move at rocket speed, build something massive. We’re scaling fast, solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here, you own your impact; full autonomy, no micromanagement, no fluff. We hire the best, expect the best, and give you the masterclass of your career. It’s hard, it’s intense, and it’s the most rewarding work you’ll ever do. If you’re hungry, driven, and ready to build something massive, climb aboard. Requirements - 5–7 years of total experience, with 3-4+ years in accounting, internal audit, or controllership (Big 4 or top-tier accounting advisory or multi-family property management preferred) - Solid grounding in core accounting (US GAAP) knowledge and processes - Clear, concise communicator able to influence cross-functional teams and present to senior leadership, auditors, and external clients - Willingness to work in person at our NYC headquarters 4–5 days per week Preferred - Demonstrated ownership of SOX 404 or SOC 1 programs, ideally in a tech/software environment - Proven ability to convert control requirements into scalable system or process enhancements. - Familiarity with AI governance, model risk, or data-privacy regulations is a plus. - Professional certifications (CPA, CIA, CISA) preferred. - Real-estate or multifamily experience is advantageous but not required. Why Join Growth and impact. It’s not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn! https://www.eliseai.com/blog/eliseai-raises-250m-series-e) startup that’s scaling so fast. That means that instead of following a playbook, you’ll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. You’ll learn what works when you succeed and what doesn’t when you fail. Either way, the rest ... (truncated, view full listing at source)