Property Accounting Expert, Future Platforms | Housing

EliseAI • New York, NY

20h • Onsite

About The Position

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. The Future Platforms team is responsible for executing on the next generation of AI products and business lines. This team will blend go-to-market, product, operations, and strategy with a mandate to push the frontier of AI and own everything required to take them from idea to market leadership. Our goal is to take Elise from agentic AI to truly end-to-end autonomous operations, fundamentally transforming how housing operators run their businesses and how residents experience their homes. We are looking for a Property Accounting Expert to ensure accounting integrity across features that touch our clients’ resident ledgers and accounting workflows. You will be the in-house authority on multifamily accounting, helping teams deliver products that interact seamlessly with our client accounting teams and systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years in multifamily property accounting or controllership at a PMC/owner-operator/REIT (ideally multifamily)
• Deep knowledge across GL & sub-ledgers, resident ledgers, deposits, and close; strong US GAAP grounding
• CPA or similar credentials
• Comfortable communicating with client accounting/operations/leasing teams
• Crisp stakeholder communications, including writing & presentations
• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a software / SaaS environment
• Familiarity with leading multifamily systems and data handoffs
• Familiarity with AI and/or automation as they relate to accounting workflows

Responsibilities

• Advise on core scenarios - Guide treatment of rent, concessions, deposits/refunds, subsidies/HAP, delinquencies, utilities, move-in/out, and month-end close
• Translate workflows into requirements - Turn real-world accounting cases into clear requirements and acceptance tests; pressure-test features before release
• Review calculations and language - Validate prorations, allocations, adjustments, and charge/credit logic for accuracy and explainability
• Lead testing and validation - Develop representative test cases, run UAT with client accountants, and confirm outputs reconcile to expectations
• Define standards and terminology - Establish consistent event lifecycles, terms, and concise reference guides for controllers and onsite teams
• Capture best practices - Distill patterns and edge cases from enterprise customers into durable standards and playbooks

Benefits

• Equity in the company
• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
• Fully paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits
• 401k benefits
• Fitness & home services stipend to cover part of your expenses so you can focus on what matters
• A collaborative in-office environment with an open floor plan, fully stocked kitchen, and all meals covered in the office
• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays
• Relocation packages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior