Accounting Manager

Twenty One Pines, Inc.

Twenty One Pines provides accounting, operational, and advisory support across a portfolio of operating companies including property management, logistics, construction services, consulting, and related service businesses.

We are seeking a high\-caliber accounting professional who thrives in a dynamic environment where financial accuracy, critical thinking, and operational awareness matter. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both owning the accounting function and executing the work itself.

This is not a traditional management role where work is delegated to a large team. The individual in this seat will be both the financial steward and the primary doer, ensuring accounting across multiple entities is accurate, compliant, and operationally sound.

What This Role Is Not

This role is not designed for someone seeking a narrow bookkeeping position or a purely task\-driven accounting role.

This is not an environment where transactions are simply entered and processed without understanding the underlying financial activity.

Because our companies operate across multiple industries and frequently interact financially, this role requires someone who can evaluate transactions, apply sound accounting judgment, and recognize when financial activity requires further investigation before being recorded.

This role is also not a position where all work is delegated to a team. While the title is Accounting Manager, the individual in this role will be deeply involved in the day\-to\-day accounting work and will often be the person executing the activity.

Candidates who prefer highly repetitive accounting environments with limited variability may find this role challenging. The person who will thrive here is someone who enjoys complexity, takes pride in solving accounting problems, and values maintaining exceptionally accurate financial records.

Role Overview

The Accounting Manager will oversee and execute accounting functions across several operating companies within the Twenty One Pines portfolio. This role requires someone who can move fluidly between brands, understand complex financial activity between entities, and apply strong judgment when evaluating how transactions should be recorded.

Our companies frequently interact with one another financially, which requires someone who can pause, evaluate the nature of a transaction, and apply sound accounting judgment before processing.

This role requires someone who does not simply record transactions but understands the financial story behind them. The individual in this role must be comfortable pausing to evaluate financial activity before recording it, ensuring transactions are accurate, appropriate, and properly classified across entities.

The right person will have exceptional attention to detail, strong critical thinking ability, and the confidence to identify when something does not look right.

Core Responsibilities

Multi\-Entity Accounting Execution

• Maintain accurate and well\-organized accounting records across multiple operating companies
• Process and record complex financial activity between entities, ensuring transactions are properly classified and documented
• Evaluate intercompany financial activity and determine appropriate accounting treatment before processing transactions
• Maintain accurate general ledger records and supporting documentation across all brands
• Prepare and review journal entries and perform regular account reconciliations to ensure financial accuracy
• Monitor financial activity for inconsistencies, missing activity, or transactions requiring investigation

Accounts Payable \& Accounts Receivable

• Manage vendor invoices, approvals, and payment processing
• Oversee invoice preparation and collection activities
• Track receivables and follow up on outstanding balances
• Ensure accurate posting of payables and receivables across entities

Asset \& Liability Management

• Maintain accurate tracking of company assets and liabilities
• Monitor loan balances, intercompany activity, and financial obligations
• Ensure liabilities are properly recorded and reconciled

Payroll Administration

This role is responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payroll for multiple operating companies within the Twenty One Pines portfolio.

Responsibilities include:

• Processing payroll for several businesses while ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable payroll regulations
• Reviewing payroll entries prior to submission to ensure correct pay rates, hours, deductions, and adjustments are applied
• Maintaining accurate payroll records and supporting documentation
• Coordinating payroll\-related accounting entries to ensure payroll expenses, liabilities, and reimbursements are properly recorded across entities
• Ensuring payroll deadlines are consistently met
• Assisting with resolution of payroll discrepancies or corrections when necessary
• Supporting year\-end payroll reporting requirements including W\-2 preparation and reconciliation activities
• Ensure payroll activities remain compliant with applicable federal and state payroll regulations

The individual in this role must demonstrate strong attention to detail and maintain a high level of accuracy when handling payroll activity across multiple companies.

Tax Reporting \& Compliance

The individual in this role must possess a working understanding of federal and state tax reporting requirements associated with multi\-entity operations and property management environments.

Responsibilities include ensuring proper documentation, reporting, and compliance related to:

• 1099 reporting requirements for vendors and contractors
• 1042\-S reporting requirements related to payments made to foreign individuals or entities
• California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) nonresident withholding requirements, including waivers, reductions, and exemptions
• California Form 592 / 592\-B reporting and compliance
• Proper collection and maintenance of required tax documentation including:
• W\-9 forms
• W\-8ECI forms
• W\-8BEN forms
• Understanding and applying federal withholding requirements for foreign property owners and investors

This role is responsible for ensuring that required tax documentation is properly collected, maintained, and applied so that all reporting and withholding obligations are executed accurately and in compliance with applicable regulations.

Trust Accounting \& Property Management Compliance

Because several portfolio companies operate within property management, this role requires a strong working knowledge of trust accounting principles and regulatory compliance requirements associated with the management of client funds.

Responsibilities include ensuring proper handling, recording, and reconciliation of trust\-related financial activity, including adherence to applicable state regulatory requirements governing trust accounts.

The individual in this role must understand the fiduciary nature of trust accounting and ensure that client funds are maintained, recorded, and reported with the highest level of accuracy and integrity.

Accuracy, transparency, and strict adherence to trust accounting standards are critical in this role.

Financial Oversight \& Exception Monitoring

• Review financial activity across companies for accuracy and completeness
• Identify irregularities, missing activity, or transactions requiring correction
• Investigate discrepancies and resolve accounting issues
• Maintain strong internal controls to prevent financial errors

Month\-End Close \& Financial Accuracy

• Own the month\-end close process across supported entities
• Ensure financial records are complete, accurate, and reconciled prior to close
• Confirm all revenue, reimbursements, payroll allocations, and intercompany activity have been properly recorded
• Identify and resolve discrepancies prior to finalizing financials

Coordination With External Accounting Support

• Work closely with third\-party bookkeeping partners
• Review their work to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Provide clarification and guidance on financial activity
• Ensure external accounting support has the information needed to perform their work effectively

CPA Coordination \& Financial Support

• Serve as the primary point of contact for outside accounting professionals
• Provide supporting documentation and financial data as requested
• Ensure financial records are maintained in a manner that supports accurate reporting and tax preparation

Systems \& Technical Requirements

• Strong proficiency in QuickBooks (required)
• Experience managing multi\-entity accounting environments
• Experience in AppFolio Property Manager is ideal
• Ability to track and reconcile complex financial activity
• Experience working with external bookkeeping services and CPAs

Process Development \& Operational Improvement

• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or breakdowns in accounting workflows and operational processes
• Independently conceptualize, design, and implement accounting processes that improve financial accuracy, efficiency, and internal controls
• Develop clear procedures that support consistent financial operations across multiple entities
• Continuously evaluate existing accounting practices and recommend improvements where processes are unclear or ineffective

What Success Looks Like in This Role

The right person will:

• Maintain exceptionally accurate financial records
• Quickly identify when something in the financials does not make sense
• Apply critical thinking before processing transactions
• Be comfortable working in a dynamic, multi\-entity environment
• Take ownership of accounting outcomes across companies

Most importantly, this person will notice when something did not occur that should have occurred.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for someone who:

• Possesses exceptional attention to detail
• Demonstrates strong critical thinking and problem\-solving ability
• Is comfortable handling complex financial activity across multiple entities
• Has strong professional integrity when managing financial records
• Takes pride in maintaining clean, accurate, and well\-organized books
• Has the ability to identify operational gaps in accounting workflows and independently design, implement, and improve processes to support accurate and efficient financial operations
• Does not simply follow processes; they recognize when processes are missing or ineffective and take initiative to build better ones

This role requires someone who enjoys being deeply involved in the financial operations of a business, who is motivated by getting the details right, and who can take ownership of building systems that ensure financial processes run smoothly and reliably.

Most importantly, this person will notice when something did not occur that should have occurred.

This Role Is Ideal For Someone Who

• Enjoys complex financial environments
• Takes pride in clean and accurate books
• Notices details others overlook
• Is motivated by solving accounting problems others find difficult

Why This Role Matters

The accounting function at Twenty One Pines supports multiple operating companies with significant financial movement between them. Accuracy, attention to detail, and sound judgment are essential to maintaining the financial health of these businesses.

The individual in this role will play a critical part in ensuring that financial activity across the organization is properly recorded, understood, and managed.

This role offers the opportunity to build, refine, and steward the accounting systems that support a diverse group of operating companies. The right person will have the ability to bring clarity to complex financial activity and play a meaningful role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the organization.

Pay: $68,000\.00 \- $82,000\.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• On\-the\-job training
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote