Senior Accounting Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of essential month-end and year-end accounting functions, which include journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.

• Supervise accounting activities across all legal entities, ensuring precise consolidation and intercompany eliminations.

• Uphold strict separation of trust (client funds) and operating accounts to comply with regulatory standards and internal policies.

• Manage financial exposure reporting related to payment losses, chargebacks, and disputes, collaborating with Risk and Operations to assess, provision for, and mitigate losses.

• Oversee foreign exchange exposure across multi-currency entities and guarantee proper documentation for hedging.

• Create and enforce a framework for internal controls across all accounting processes, paying particular attention to the segregation of duties and the safeguarding of payment funds.

• Lead the year-end audit, SRED submission, tax filings, and all regulatory reporting responsibilities.

• Ensure compliance with ASPE/IFRS and maintain up-to-date accounting policies for every entity.

• Actively identify control deficiencies and implement remediation strategies prior to them becoming audit issues.

• Oversee and support payroll operations in North America, including payroll accounting, reconciliations, and compliance considerations.

• Supervise AP-related processes and controls, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and robust reconciliation practices.

• Manage the accounting technology stack, assessing, implementing, and optimizing tools (Xero, Plooto, and others) to reduce manual effort and enhance accuracy.

• Collaborate with Business Intelligence and Engineering to automate reconciliations, reporting, and closing processes.

• Establish and maintain a continuous improvement roadmap for the accounting function, monitoring efficiency gains and reporting results to leadership.

• Lead the FinOps best-practices group, working with team leaders to govern and optimize variable usage-based costs like cloud and infrastructure expenditures.

• Work closely with FP&A on internal and investor reporting, ensuring accounting outputs are ready for investors.

• Act as the main accounting liaison for external auditors, tax advisors, banking partners, and payment processors.

• Deliver clear and timely financial reports to the Accounting Director and executive team.

⛳️ Requirements

• CPA designation or actively pursuing CPA completion.

• Strong technical accounting expertise, particularly in financial accounting and audit support.

• In-depth knowledge of ASPE and IFRS; experience in the tech or payments SaaS sectors is highly preferred.

• Proficient in Xero, Plooto, and BI/analytics tools; advanced skills in Excel are essential.

• Excellent analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail.

• Proven interest in process enhancement, automation, and scalable finance operations.

• Comfortable navigating dynamic, fast-paced environments with changing priorities.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

• A natural problem-solver who excels in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.

• Interest in AI, automation tools, or contemporary finance technology is considered an asset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• Paid time off.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Professional development opportunities.