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Arboreal Management
Accounting Manager — AI & Automation
Remote · Contract · Philippines
- Compensation
- Not defined
- Category
- AI engineering
- Employment
- Contract
- Workplace
- Remote
Technologies
- SQL
About the role
- Are you an accounting leader who is obsessed with AI?
- We're looking for an experienced accountant who believes AI is going to fundamentally change how accounting gets done — and wants to be at the forefront of that transformation. Arboreal manages more than 10,000 apartments, and we've built our own property-management software platform, Maynard, with extensive APIs and MCP tools that let AI agents work directly in our accounting systems. This role is your chance to prove how much more a great accountant can accomplish when the manual work is handed to AI and the judgment stays with you.
- The Role
- This is a new kind of accounting role, built for how Arboreal intends to run its accounting function going forward. Rather than managing a team of people, the Accounting Manager oversees the accounting for a book of work primarily through AI agents operating on Maynard in conjunction with AppFolio. The focus is judgment and review: directing and supervising automated workflows, tackling complex reconciliations and investigations with AI, preparing and reviewing journal entries, validating what the agents produce, and standing behind the accuracy of the financials. You'll be one of four Accounting Managers who work side by side to make sure financials go out on time and accurately and that balances are reconciled across the portfolio. A shared pool of accountants performs a limited set of manual tasks and AI-assisted supporting reconciliations; these accountants do not report to this role. You'll have direct access to the CFO, the engineering team, and our AI-enabled accounting tools — and you'll be encouraged to experiment, improve processes, and figure out how much more is possible. This position reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and spans accounts payable and receivable, corporate accounting, client onboarding and offboarding, and the review of property financials.
- Oversee Accounting Through AI Agents & Automation
- Own the accounting for an assigned book of work, executed primarily through AI agents running on Maynard alongside AppFolio — directing, supervising, and quality-controlling their output rather than performing each task by hand.
- Use AI to tackle complex reconciliations, investigate accounting problems, and automate work that traditionally takes hours of manual effort.
- Prepare and review journal entries and reconciliations, and review AI- and system-generated entries and reports for accuracy, completeness, proper coding, and compliance with U.S. GAAP before they are relied upon.
- Identify, investigate, and resolve exceptions the agents flag or that review surfaces, and determine when a human needs to step in.
- Experiment with and improve agent workflows, prompts, rules, and controls — partnering with the CFO and engineering team so the system produces reliable results and keeps getting better.
- Act as a knowledgeable check on automation — understanding what the agents are doing well enough to catch when an output is wrong, and never signing off on numbers that have not been verified.
- Timely & Accurate Financial Reporting
- Work alongside the other three Accounting Managers to ensure financial statements go out on time and accurately for the assigned portfolio each period.
- Coordinate the close calendar and hand-offs across the manager group so there are no gaps or duplicated work, and so dependencies are met.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close and produce financials in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
- Provide the CFO with variance explanations, supporting schedules, and management reporting for lenders, owners, and external tax preparers and auditors.
- Reconciliations & Balance Integrity
- Ensure balance-sheet accounts are reconciled and that balances are supported, reviewing the AI-assisted reconciliations prepared on the platform and by the accountant pool.
- Confirm that AP and AR subledgers tie to the general ledger, and that cash, prepaids, accrued liabilities, intercompany, and int