Senior Accountant

About us

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

About the role

As Accounting Lead, you will own the accounting foundation for Garage as we scale a transaction-heavy marketplace across essential industries. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll partner closely with the Finance Lead to keep the books accurate, the close reliable, and the accounting operations ready for the next stage of growth.

In this role, you will

• Own Garage’s books in QuickBooks Online, including accurate financial statements, account reconciliations, and month-end close.

• Lead GAAP accrual accounting across AP, AR, payroll coordination, vendor payments, expenses, sales commissions, and related workflows.

• Reconcile marketplace transactions, payments, settlements, and funds movement across internal systems and external partners.

• Build and improve accounting processes, close calendars, review routines, documentation, and controls that can scale with the business.

• Partner with the Finance Lead to provide clean, reliable accounting inputs for planning, reporting, and business decision-making.

• Identify and resolve accounting operations issues quickly, bringing structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous workflows.

• Help Garage prepare for future audits, diligence requests, systems upgrades, and a more mature accounting function as the company grows.

What we're looking for

• Loves being hands-on with the details while also building systems that make the whole company more reliable.

• Feels excited by the accounting complexity of a fast-growing marketplace, including high transaction volume, money movement, and operational edge cases.

• Enjoys creating order from ambiguity and can move quickly without sacrificing accuracy or judgment.

• Gets motivated by owning the accounting function at an early-stage company where the foundation you build will matter for years.

• Has a high bar for precision, follow-through, and financial integrity, especially when money movement and customer trust are involved.

• Works well with founders and cross-functional teams, translating accounting needs into clear actions and practical processes.

• Brings an operator mindset from a lean finance or accounting team and prefers solving real business problems over adding unnecessary complexity.

Required

• 3+ years of accounting experience, ideally including ownership of accounting operations in a lean or high-growth environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.

• Strong experience with QuickBooks Online and proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

• Strong knowledge of GAAP accrual accounting, including AP, AR, month-end close, reconciliations, and financial statement management.

• Excellent reconciliation skills across multiple bank accounts, payment flows, systems, and vendors.

• Ability to build, document, and improve accounting processes rather than only execute existing ones.

• Strong organizational judgment and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple accounting workstreams at once.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity and taking ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Nice to have

• CPA or CPA-track.

• Experience in marketplaces, fintech, payments, lending, or other transaction-heavy businesses.

• Experience at an early-stage startup or on a finance/accounting team of fewer than five people.

• Experience preparing for audits, diligence requests, or stronger internal controls.

• Experience implementing or improving accounting systems, bill pay tools, payroll workflows, expense management, or close processes.

Our values

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.

• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.

• Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.

• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

Why Garage?

• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.

• We have a talent-dense, high-performance team where everyone joining now has an outsized impact.

• What we’ve built works. We’re backed by world-class vendors: Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more.

• You’ll be one of our first 40 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options

• 100% covered health, dental and vision insurance (with additional buy-up options)

• Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)

• Daily lunch & dinner

• $100/month wellness stipend

• 401(k) w/ employer match to help save for your future

• Pre-tax commuter benefits

• Bi-annual team offsite

• Relocation assistance