Staff Accountant/Jr. Controller

Leveragecompanies; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Leverage Companies is a dynamic real estate private equity platform focused on growth and operational excellence. This finance role spans private lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and corporate operations, each with its own accounting structure and ERP setup.

You will help scale the books, controls, and processes across a multi-entity environment. You will be mentored by finance leadership, grow quickly, and help build the infrastructure to support the next phase of the

Qualifications

• Experience with multi-entity accounting and consolidated close.
• Ability to work across divisions and teams to improve processes.
• Familiarity with audit preparation and tax coordination.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate financial records across multiple entities (lending, acquisitions, asset management, development).
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close with clean, reconciled books.
• Prepare and review financial statements and provide consolidation support.
• Execute journal entries and reconciliations with proper documentation.
• Identify data gaps earlier and drive corrective actions.
• Support budgets and P&L roll-ups for corporate functions.

Skills

Accounting

Multi-Entity

ERP

Financial Analysis

Month-end close

Tools

Salesforce

QuickBooks

Job description

Leverage Companies is a dynamic real estate private equity platform on a mission to create millionaires through real estate. We operate a vertically integrated ecosystem comprised of these divisions .

Founded in 2018 proudly headquartered in Newark, NJ, we are scaling rapidly and building a world-class team committed to operational excellence, bold growth, and long-term impact.

At Leverage Companies, integrity, entrepreneurial drive, and a commitment to excellence shape everything we do. We move with accountability and ownership, pushing innovation forward through collaboration and a culture that’s truly out of this world. Fast-paced and mission-driven, we offer real opportunities for growth and a team environment where both collective wins and individual achievements are celebrated.

The Opportunity:

This is a finance role with real breadth. You will be embedded across the Leverage Companies platform - supporting private lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations - each with its own accounting structure, entity setup, and operational rhythm.

We operate with a straightforward standard: when we see a gap, we address it with speed and precision. That applies to the books, the processes, the systems, and the controls. This role exists because we are growing and we need someone who holds that standard too - someone who can step into a complex, multi-entity environment, get oriented quickly, and make things more accurate and more efficient than they found them.

You will be mentored directly by finance leadership with both deep accounting roots and extensive experience leading ERP and financial system transformations. The expectation is that you grow into this business fast, develop strong opinions about how things should work, and help build the infrastructure that supports the next phase of the platform.

What you will do:

Cross-Division Financial Operations

• Maintain accurate financial records across Leverage Companies entities - lending, acquisitions, asset management, development, and company-level operations
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across the platform, ensuring books are clean and reconciled on time
• Prepare and review financial statements across multiple entities, including consolidation support as the platform picture matures
• Execute journal entries and account reconciliations across QuickBooks entities with precision and proper documentation
• Identify discrepancies across systems and data sources early - flag them clearly, resolve them fast
• Track budgets and financials for company-level functions including Deals & Dollars and other in-house events, ensuring clean roll-up into the platform P&L

Private Lending - Brick City Capital

• Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management
• Assist with revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division - tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources
• Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures
• Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution

Asset Management & Development

• Support financial reporting across the ~300-door single and multifamily portfolio - property-level and entity-level
• Assist with entity accounting for active development projects across New Jersey as they move through construction, stabilization, and disposition phases
• Support acquisition entity accounting as Leverage Homes contracts are executed, assigned, or closed into the portfolio
• Assist with bank reconciliations, draw tracking, and cost accounting on active development and rehab projects

Systems, Process & Controls

• Actively participate in financial system improvements - we use Salesforce and QuickBooks and we expect this person to understand how they connect, not just how to post
• Identify manual processes that should be automated or restructured and bring solutions, not just observations
• Actively explore and adopt AI tools and new Ramp features as they roll out - we move quickly on tooling that makes the team more precise and more efficient
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of internal controls as the platform and transaction volume scale
• Support audit preparation, tax coordination, and compliance requirements across entities
• Collaborate with external auditors and tax advisors; ensure documentation is clean and ready