Accounting Manager

Obvio•San Carlos, CA

26d

About The Position

We're hiring Obvio's first in-house accounting hire — an Accounting Manager who will take ownership of a function that has been run by an outsourced accounting firm and bring it in-house as we scale. This is a builder's role: you'll stand up the systems, controls, and processes a growing hardware-enabled-services company needs, while managing the day-to-day close, reporting, and compliance work yourself. You'll be the first full-time accountant in the building, working directly with Finance leadership to design how Obvio's books get run for the next several years — not just maintain what's already there. You'll be a strong fit if you've done this transition before (outsourced → in-house), you're comfortable being a hands-on doer and a systems builder, and you're excited by the accounting complexity of a company that sells enforcement-as-a-service to municipalities — recurring, revenue-share, and multi-year government contracts across dozens of jurisdictions.

Requirements

5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including time in an Accounting Manager, Senior Accountant, or Controller-track role.
Direct experience transitioning a company's books from an outsourced provider to an in-house function — you've done this before and know where the landmines are.
Hands-on ERP/accounting system implementation experience (Campfire, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, or similar) — chart of accounts design, migration, and rollout.
Full-cycle month-end close ownership, from journal entries through finalized financial statements.
Comfort operating without a large team around you — you're equally happy doing the transactional work yourself and building the process that eventually lets you delegate it.
Strong Excel skills and a genuine interest in efficient, well-documented processes.
Experience in a hardware, hardware-enabled-services, or similarly operationally complex business (physical asset deployment, field operations, multi-site billing) is a strong plus.
CPA or CPA-track strongly preferred.

Nice To Haves

Experience with revenue-share, usage-based, or percentage-of-completion revenue models.
Experience with government or municipal contracts and public-sector billing/collections.
Prior experience preparing a company for its first financial statement audit.
Exposure to AI/automation tools for close, reconciliation, or reporting workflows.

Responsibilities

Own the transition from outsourced to in-house accounting — take over books, processes, and vendor relationships (bookkeeping firm, tax preparer) currently run externally, and rebuild them as an internal function with proper controls.
Run month-end and year-end close — journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and a close calendar that gets faster and tighter each cycle.
Lead implementation of Campfire as our accounting system of record — chart of accounts design, data migration, integrations, and internal training, following a project plan you help define.
Manage revenue recognition for Obvio's municipal contracts — including revenue-share arrangements and percentage-of-completion structures that don't fit off-the-shelf SaaS revenue models, in partnership with Finance leadership.
Own AP, AR, and payroll processing — vendor payments, municipal billing and collections, expense management, and payroll/benefits administration (directly or via a payroll provider).
Prepare accurate, timely financial statements — P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow, with account-level detail Finance leadership can trust for board and investor reporting.
Build the internal controls and documentation a growing company needs — policies, SOPs, and audit-ready workpapers ahead of Obvio's first financial statement audit.
Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Sales, and Operations to track unit economics and contract terms across Obvio's growing footprint of municipal ATE programs.
Manage sales/use tax and multi-jurisdiction compliance as Obvio's municipal footprint expands across states.