About Proper
Proper is an AI-first accounting service built for property managers and real estate operators. We combine automation, our own technology and a global team of accounting experts to run financial operations that are faster and more accurate than what the industry has settled for.
We are 480 people across the US, Colombia and Mexico, serving 175 property management and real estate clients. We are a San Francisco based company and most of our accounting organisation is in Latin America. The role You will run a pod: roughly 20 client accounts, 4 to 6 direct reports, and the 20 or so people who sit under them. Your direct reports are Senior Accountants and Principal Accountants, and each of them leads a small team and owns a set of clients.
You are accountable for three things. Whether those clients stay. Whether the work reaching them is right. Whether the pod makes money.
What makes this job different from most accounting management roles is where you sit. You are not the client's day-to-day contact, and you are not the last person to review every deliverable. Your Senior Accountants do that work and report to you on it. Your job is to know independently whether their picture is accurate, and to coach what you find. That means opening the books yourself, listening to recorded client calls, and forming your own view of an account rather than accepting a status update. If that sounds like less control than you are used to, it is actually more responsibility, and it is the part of the role we care most about.