Staff Accountant & Automation Engineer (AI-Driven)

Masterworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Masterworks, a fintech platform, seeks an accountant-builder who blends accounting expertise with automation and AI fluency. You will automate routine closes, build reliable data pipelines, and drive scalable financial processes across hundreds of SPVs and corporate entities.

You will work with a lean team to deliver accurate reporting, leverage AI copilots, and own key aspects of SEC reporting and reconciliations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher in accounting or equivalent
• 1–3 years of accounting experience (close work, reconciliations, financial statement prep)
• Evidence of building: a script, automation, or workflow that saved real time
• Fluency using AI to get things done programmatically (prompt-to-working-code)
• Detail orientation and deadline discipline, the close calendar as heartbeat of the team

Responsibilities

• Keep our financial engine running across hundreds of art investment vehicles and corporate entities
• Execute monthly, quarterly, and annual closes with reconciliations and clean supporting entries
• Lead preparation of SEC annual and semi-annual reports (1-K and 1-SA)
• Own pay-in/pay-out reconciliations and the supporting files for investor payment runs
• Maintain and extend the accounting automation stack: scripts, data pipelines, AI agents
• Identify and eliminate manual, fragile steps through automation and document the work

Skills

Accounting basics

Automation mindset

AI fluency

Attention to detail

Education

Degree in Accounting

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Python

Claude

ChatGPT

GitHub

SQL

APIs

Alteryx

GitHub Actions

Zapier

Job description

Masterworks, a fintech platform, seeks an accountant-builder who blends accounting expertise with automation and AI fluency. You will automate routine closes, build reliable data pipelines, and drive scalable financial processes across hundreds of SPVs and corporate entities.

You will work with a lean team to deliver accurate reporting, leverage AI copilots, and own key aspects of SEC reporting and reconciliations.