AI-Focused Accounting Manager / Senior Account / Controller

ShopLevers; Virginia; On-site; USD 65,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ShopLevers is seeking a Senior Accountant to own the closings across multiple auto repair shop clients and to lead the bookkeeping team. You will standardize processes so junior bookkeepers and AI agents can execute them consistently, ensuring accurate monthly closes by fixed dates.

You’ll manage close reviews, implement accounting standards, and scale operations with AI tools while maintaining high-quality control for all client sets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in accounting for US small businesses.
• 2+ years reviewing work or leading a team.
• Own the monthly close for multiple clients or entities.

Responsibilities

• Review and sign off every client’s monthly close.
• Own technical accounting including accruals, prepaids, assets, depreciation, loans, inventory and COGS.
• Perform hard reconciliations and manager customer payments and shop costs.
• Set and maintain accounting standards and close checklists.
• Lead and coach the bookkeeping team and balance workloads.
• Onboard new clients and write runbooks for automation.
• Design systems and write processes so AI agents and juniors can run them.
• Use AI tools (Claude, etc.) in daily work.

Skills

Accounting experience

Team leadership

US small business accounting

QuickBooks Online

AI in accounting

Education

CPA or equivalent

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Job description

ShopLevers provides financial operations support for independent auto repair shops. We are an AI-native firm, meaning we run our own software and AI agents alongside our accountants, so shop owners get accurate numbers by a fixed date every month without building a back office.

The role

We need the person who owns accounting quality across every client. Today our bookkeepers handle the day-to-day, and the technical accounting, close review, and hard judgment calls all run through our founder, who isn't an accountant. You'll take that over.

You’ll be the senior accountant on every set of books we deliver and the manager of the bookkeepers who prepare them. You’ll also turn how we work into a system, written down clearly enough that a junior bookkeeper or an AI agent can run it, so the team can serve more shops without lowering the bar.

What you’ll do

Own the close and the accounting

• Review and sign off every client’s monthly close before it goes out
• Own the technical accounting: accruals, prepaids, fixed assets and depreciation, loans, inventory and COGS, payroll entries
• Work the hard reconciliations: clearing accounts, customer payments through processors and lenders, parts costs against the shop system
• Set and maintain our accounting standards: chart of accounts, close checklist, review standards

Lead the bookkeeping team

• Assign and balance work across clients and bookkeepers
• Review work, coach judgment calls, and raise the team's first-pass accuracy
• Be the escalation point for technical questions from shop owners

Bring on new clients

• Assess a new client’s books and plan their onboarding
• Run or oversee clean-up projects when books arrive behind or broken
• Hand each client off with a written runbook the team can follow

Build the system

• Review what our AI agents produce (categorization, reconciliations, journal entries), catch errors, and fix the instructions behind them
• Turn repeated work into written processes an agent or a junior can run
• Use AI tools like Claude daily in your own work

Today much of this is hands-on. Over time the job shifts from doing and reviewing the work to designing how it gets done.

What success looks like

• 30 days: You’ve learned our standards and every client’s books, and you’re reviewing each close alongside our founder.
• 60 days: You sign off every close on your own. You’ve written our close checklist and review standard.
• 90 days: Every client closes on time with no rework after delivery. You’ve onboarded at least one new client, and one recurring task runs through an AI agent with your review step built in.
• 12 months: Our founder is out of the books entirely. The team serves more shops per person, with fewer errors, than when you started.

What you bring

Required

• 5+ years in accounting for US small businesses, including 2+ years reviewing others’ work or leading a team
• You’ve owned the monthly close for multiple clients or entities at once
• Strong accrual accounting: accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, loan amortization, inventory and COGS
• Expert in QuickBooks Online, including cleaning up books that are behind or wrong
• You already use AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT in real accounting work

Nice to have

• CPA or equivalent
• Experience at an outsourced accounting or bookkeeping firm
• Experience writing SOPs or training material
• Any automation work (Zapier, scripts, advanced spreadsheets). Not required.

How you’ll work

• You can’t leave an unexplained balance alone.
• When something is wrong, you say so the same day.
• You write down how you did something so you never have to explain it twice.
• You’d rather fix a process than fix the same mistake every month.

Salary Range

$65,000 - $150,000 per year, based on experience, location and skillset.