Finance Engineer

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rillet in San Francisco is seeking a senior accountant to own month-end close and begin automating it for top customers. The role blends hands-on GAAP close work with designing agent-based processes, ensuring controls, audit trails, and clear escalation paths.

The position sits in a fast-evolving AI-enabled finance space, requiring comfort with both accounting detail and building scalable automation that serves multiple clients. Remote work is available from San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Seasoned accountant with month-end close ownership.
• Strong GAAP knowledge and audit defense experience.
• Experience building automated agents with controls.
• Ability to turn field patterns into product features.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end close process end-to-end and drive improvements.
• Automate close workflows using agent-based approaches with audit trails.
• Collaborate with customers to embed finance processes in product features.
• Translate field learnings into scalable accounting automation solutions.

Skills

Month end close ownership

GAAP knowledge

Audit defense

Agent design and controls

Job description

Finance & Legal · San Francisco · Remote · FullTime · Senior level

This role asks for a seasoned accountant who has owned month end close and can now automate it for top customers. A strong candidate brings deep GAAP knowledge, hands on close experience, and the ability to build agents and turn field lessons into product. The work blends customer embedding with shipping features, so comfort with both accounting detail and building is key.

How it fits the AI era

AI shifts the manual parts of close, like coding, reconciliations, and accruals, toward agents that run with review steps and audit trails. What stays human is judgment: defending an entry to an auditor, deciding where a person must stay in the loop, and spotting which patterns deserve to become product. The role sits where accounting expertise meets automation design.

How it builds AI experience

Building agents that do real accounting work with controls and audit trails gives direct experience in agentic finance. Working across several customers and turning repeated workarounds into reusable playbooks and product features builds practical skill in applied AI for accounting. This grows from close expertise rather than prior AI work.

Worth showing

• Month end close ownership
• GAAP and audit defense
• Agent design with controls
• Turning field patterns into product

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About Rillet

An AI-native ERP and general ledger that automates bookkeeping and month-end close, built to replace NetSuite for fast-growing companies.