Accounting Manager

Bland•San Francisco, CA

3d•$90,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Bland AI is the voice AI platform built for enterprises with high-volume, complex call center operations. Bland started by solving the core infrastructure problem that made voice AI unusable for business: latency, reliability, and the inability to handle real-world complexity. Where early voice AI took 7 seconds to respond and could only handle basic FAQs, Bland built the entire stack from scratch. Today, Bland's platform fully resolves up to 65% of inbound calls autonomously – handling not just FAQs, but multi-step workflows, authentication logic, business-rule-based routing, and live data lookups. For large call center operators, each percentage point of resolution Bland drives is worth $500K–$1M+ per year in savings. Bland's biggest technical differentiator: they own and operate the entire voice AI stack in-house – transcription, LLM, and TTS – rather than relying on third-party API providers. This is a deliberate architectural choice that enables the uptime guarantees, data security standards, and customization depth that regulated industries require. The current finance team is small and nimble. This is our first internal accounting hire where you will have the ability to make an outsized impact on accounting processes, policies, and reporting. You will have ownership of the accounting close, partnering with our external providers, with the goal to deliver seamless, accurate, and consistent reporting standards . You will be a thought partner to other leaders across the company to enhance internal tooling and reporting. The right person for this role is someone who is interested in building processes, implementing tooling, willing to roll up their sleeves to dive into the details, and can operate in a fast paced environment.

Requirements

Operational experience and a deep knowledge of revenue and the broader accounting close.
Experience with financial audits and an understanding of internal controls.
Knowledge of accounting tooling and systems and a perspective of how to build strong reporting processes to handle a high-volume of transactions.
Experience in working with unstructured data with a strong knowledge of spreadsheet formulas and tooling.
Comfortable with ambiguity.
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related track
4+ years of accounting experience across public accounting, senior accountant, or accounting manager roles
Hands-on ownership of month-end close and account reconciliations
ASC 6060 revenue recognition experience
Audit experience — you have prepared PBC support and workpapers and worked in those tools
Highly self-directed — does not need heavy management or a fully built playbook to be effective
Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge with usage based recognition
CPA or progress toward one
Experience working with external partners in tax and accounting
Experience in a finance or accounting role at a high-growth startup

Responsibilities

Ensuring the monthly close is done consistently and timely each month.
Partnering with external providers on monthly close procedures, and reconciliations.
Partnering with department leaders on ensuring proper expense tagging, allocations, and reporting.
Preparing the reporting package once close is complete.
Building out revenue reporting processes with newly implemented tooling to drive automation of both self-serve and enterprise lines of business.
Overseeing day-to-day accounting operations: AP, vendor management, accounting policies, sales tax, and 1099s.
Putting internal controls in place, appropriate for the company's size, and keeping things documented and reconciled well enough that audit documentation is ready.
Establishing a world-class accounting function that delivers value across the company.