VP, Accounting

🕒 August 14

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $225k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧾 Accounting Manager

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Better

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

💰 $155M Post-IPO Debt - Better.com on 2025-04

Fintech • Real Estate • Finance

<Better> Better is a digital mortgage and homeownership platform offering online mortgage origination (purchase and refinance), cash-out refinance and HELOC options, mortgage rate information and calculators, VA loan support, title and closing services, insurance offerings, and agent/attorney matching to help consumers buy, refinance, and manage home equity.

📋 Description

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across all legal entities, including the general ledger, consolidation, intercompany, and chart of accounts • Lead technical accounting for mortgage banking instruments, including loans held for sale, mortgage servicing rights, interest rate lock commitments, hedge positions, and loan sale and transfer accounting under ASC 860 • Partner with Capital Markets and Secondary on gain-on-sale, hedge results, and pair-offs • Reconcile loan origination and servicing systems to the general ledger at the loan level • Manage repurchase and representation-and-warranty reserves, including supporting assumptions, models, and documentation • Own SEC reporting, including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, XBRL tagging, and disclosure committee support • Serve as the desk of record for Audit Committee accounting questions • Run SOX and internal control over financial reporting design, documentation, testing, and remediation • Liaise with internal audit and external auditors • Oversee regulatory and counterparty reporting, including agency seller/servicer requirements, HUD/FHA audited financials, state licensing filings, NMLS Mortgage Call Reports, and facility covenant certificates • Own accounting for stock-based compensation, equity instruments, leases, fixed assets, payroll, accounts payable, and coordination of the income tax provision • Write technical accounting memos and defend accounting positions with auditors • Partner with FP&A on budget-versus-actual reviews, forecasting, and long-range planning • Develop and scale the accounting team across the US and India • Improve close speed, accuracy, automation, and data quality by partnering with Operations, Capital Markets, and Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Active CPA • 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting experience at a Big 4 or national firm and industry experience • 3+ years in mortgage banking, specialty finance, or financial services accounting • Hands-on exposure to loans held for sale, mortgage servicing rights, interest rate lock commitments, hedging, and gain-on-sale • Experience as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Director of Accounting at an SEC registrant • Personal ownership of SEC reporting and SOX 404 • 5+ years leading accounting teams, including managing managers • Deep technical judgment across ASC 860, ASC 815, ASC 820, ASC 825, and ASC 718 • Track record of improving an accounting function through systems implementations, close acceleration, or reconciliation automation • High degree of integrity and sound escalation judgment • Comfort with speed, ambiguity, and rapidly changing business conditions • Public company transition experience, ERP implementation or optimization, securitizations, MSR sales or financing, or sub-servicer oversight and servicing accounting are nice to have • Authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus HSA and FSA options with employer matching contributions • Pre-tax Dependent Care FSA, plus commuter benefits with employer matching contributions • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Flexible PTO program and company-paid holidays • Paid parental leave • Remote and hybrid work arrangement options [role dependent] • Discounted pet insurance and additional perks • PerkSpot employee discount program • SoFi financial wellbeing platform with 1:1 advice • Employee assistance program supporting mental and emotional wellbeing • Equity • Bonus