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We replaced the need for one.\nBelong is the operating system for rental homeownership. One system that runs rent, maintenance, finances, residents, and visibility end to end. Not a person juggling disconnected tools. A system that gets smarter every single day, with every home we add.\nWe've survived Covid, the tech crash, and the toughest capital markets cycle in a generation. We are growing fast, we are AI-first, and we are building something that has never existed before.\nOur 200+ Belongers are strong, curious, and unreasonably ambitious. If you want a passive role at a company that's okay with average, this is not it.\nThe Role\nBelong needs an experienced accountant who combines technical depth, hands-on execution, and leadership in a lean team. You lead an automation-enabled close, work alongside teammates who own payroll and payables as well as receivables and collections, handle the complex entries and edge cases, and remain accountable for accurate, timely books and reporting.\nAs an Accounting Lead, you are the day-to-day accounting lead for Belong's Buenos Aires finance team. You own the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the books and coordinate the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across the Finance Operations Specialist, the AR & Collections Specialist, and our automated workflows.\nMuch of the recurring volume is automated or prepared by the team. You supervise those processes, review the work and exception queues, personally handle complex and non-recurring accounting, and make sure every material balance can be explained and supported.\nThis role combines full-cycle accounting, team leadership, and systems ownership. You define accounting treatment and review standards, preserve the audit trail, resolve issues that require judgment, and partner with our Finance Data Engineer to make the close faster and more reliable as Belong grows.\nWhat You'll Own\nLead an Automation-Enabled Close\nOwn the close calendar and orchestrate a coordinated close across the finance team and automated processes. Set deadlines and account ownership, review team deliverables and system-generated outputs, personally prepare complex and non-recurring entries, resolve exceptions, and deliver an accurate, repeatable close on schedule.\nOwn the Balance Sheet\nSet the reconciliation standard for every material balance-sheet account. Prepare the most complex reconciliations, review material reconciliations completed by the team, investigate differences, clear aged items, correct errors at the source, and ensure every balance is supported.\nProduce Reporting That Explains the Business\nPrepare monthly financial statements and budget-versus-actual reporting. Identify the drivers behind material variances, work directly with budget owners to understand them, and turn the close into a clear explanation of what happened, why it happened, and where action is needed.\nLead the Audit from Inside Belong\nLead Belong's side of the external audit. Organize and review PBC schedules and supporting documentation, respond directly to auditor questions, coordinate requests across the team and company, resolve accounting issues, and keep the books audit-ready throughout the year.\nLead the Team and Set the Accounting Standard\nServe as the day-to-day accounting lead for the Finance Operations Specialist and AR & Collections Specialist. Set priorities, review standards, and close responsibilities; provide practical guidance; and help the team grow. Apply US GAAP consistently and document policies, procedures, account ownership, and key controls.\nBuild a Better Finance Machine\nPartner with our Finance Data Engineer to improve automated postings, transaction matching, reconciliations, and close workflows. Define the accounting logic, review thresholds, and exception rules; test the output; supervise the exception queue; and keep human judgment and a clear audit trail at the center of the process.\nWhy This Role Matters\nThe person in this seat owns the accounting engine that lets Belong run as a system instead of a collection of manual processes. When the close ties on schedule instead of slipping into next month, that is this role. When an auditor's question gets a clear, well-supported answer instead of a scramble, that is this role. When a budget owner finally understands why a number moved, that is this role.\nEvery close, reconciliation, and financial statement delivered is a brand moment. Each one either strengthens confidence in the Belong OS, or weakens it. The decisions made in this role affect how fast Belong can close its books, how well it withstands audit scrutiny, and how much the business can trust its own numbers to make real operating decisions.\nWhy Belong\nYou get a front-row seat at a venture-backed company redefining one of the largest and most broken industries in America. This is a high-ownership role in our Buenos Aires office, working closely with teammates who solve problems in real time rather than across time zones and handoffs.\nBelong is AI-first in a way that actually means something: automation removes the repetitive work - routine postings, transaction matching, reconciliations - so you can focus on the complex entries, judgment calls, and audit readiness that actually need you.\nThis role can grow into Assistant Controller as you deepen ownership of the close, controls, audit, and team, with longer-term potential to grow toward Controller as Belong scales. That path is available to anyone who builds the track record here.\nWe do not manage properties. We run an operating system. And the people who represent that system to the world are not just employees. They are Belongers.\nRequirements\nWhat We're Looking For\nOn Experience\n5 to 9 years of progressive, full-cycle accounting experience, including substantial general-ledger and close ownership.\nHands-on accounting experience in a venture-backed startup, scale-up, or similarly fast-growing company is required. You understand the pace, ambiguity, evolving systems, and incomplete processes that come with growth.\nA demonstrated record of leading a close in a lean team while personally owning complex journal entries, material reconciliations, schedules, and financial statements.\nStrong command of US GAAP, accrual accounting, cut-off, balance-sheet substantiation, and financial-statement preparation.\nDirect experience supporting or leading an external audit, including PBC schedules and auditor follow-up.\nExperience preparing budget-versus-actual reporting, working with non-finance budget owners, and coordinating the close work of a small accounting team.\nStrong accounting-systems experience (NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage, or similar) and the ability to learn new workflows quickly.\nAdvanced Excel / Google Sheets skills. Complex formulas, pivots, lookups, tie-outs, and data validation are routine tools for you.\nExcellent written and verbal English communication skills.\nBachelor's degree in Accounting or a Contador Público qualification. Experience supporting a US company or multi-entity environment is strongly preferred.\nEligibility to work in Argentina.\nNice to Have\nReal estate, proptech, fintech, or marketplace experience.\nBenefits\nPerformance-based upside tied directly to what you deliver.\nThis role can grow into Assistant Controller as you deepen ownership of the close, controls, audit, and team, with longer-term potential to grow toward Controller as Belong scales.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7507,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Upper-Intermediate (B2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Property Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T19:36:42Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":107,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/belong-accounting-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/belong-accounting-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T17:38:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27060,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":669310},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=669310"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbelong-accounting-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbelong-accounting-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbelong-accounting-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/belong-accounting-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbelong-accounting-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3701384}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"belonghome.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3701384},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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