Senior Accountant (12 month contract)

Overview

This role manages regional accounting operations with the primary objective of ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting. The position supports confident business decision-making by maintaining compliance with accounting standards and internal policies, strengthening internal controls, and ensuring operational integrity.

The Senior Accountant supports a team of accounting professionals by providing technical oversight, streamlining core accounting processes, and helping deliver consistent, high-quality outputs for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting.

Responsibilities

Accounting Operations & Financial Reporting

• Lead the regional month-end close process to ensure financial results are timely, accurate, and complete for internal and external reporting.
• Review and approve journal entries, supporting calculations, and account reconciliations to maintain data integrity and audit readiness.
• Oversee accounts payable and billing activities, ensuring timely processing, correct application of charges, and alignment with internal controls and vendor/customer agreements.
• Maintain and continuously improve regional accounting processes and internal controls to improve operational efficiency and mitigate risk.
• Prepare and deliver internal financial reports, including variance analyses and commentary, to support leadership and finance stakeholders.
• Review and reconcile intercompany transactions to ensure accurate consolidated reporting.
• Own and complete the month-end regional checklist to ensure process consistency and completeness across accounting functions.
• Serve as the regional accounting system administrator, maintaining data integrity, access control, and system optimization.

Regional Financial Ownership & Accountability

• Act as the primary accounting owner for each region’s financial results, ensuring financial activities are accurately reflected and compliant with accounting policies and standards.
• Partner with the Assistant Controller to validate and explain regional financial data and support consolidation and senior leadership reporting readiness.
• Proactively identify and resolve accounting issues, discrepancies, or risks; implement corrective actions and strengthen internal processes.
• Uphold IFRS and regional GAAP compliance, and internal accounting policy adherence across all regional activities.
• Support external audits by owning regional reconciliations and supporting documentation; serve as the point of contact for audit-related inquiries.
• Provide actionable insight into regional financial performance by linking operational activity with financial outcomes.
• Recommend and implement improvements to regional accounting practices to increase accuracy, control, and scalability.

Team Leadership & Development

• Provide day-to-day guidance and technical oversight to a regional accounting team.
• Promote continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the team and regions to enhance operational resilience and consistency.

Strategic Financial Oversight & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with Finance and FP&A teams to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning through timely and accurate actuals.
• Contribute to the development of financial policies and scalable accounting processes that support business growth and operational agility.
• Deliver data-informed insights and identify cost-saving or efficiency opportunities to support sound financial decisions.
• Align accounting practices with operational goals by partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure financial impacts are accurately captured.
• Support preparation for board reporting, investor communications, and strategic finance initiatives by delivering reliable, well-supported financial data.

Compliance, Tax & External Liaison

• Manage timely filing of GST, PST, Employer Health Tax, and other statutory remittances in accordance with regional regulatory requirements.
• Liaise with external accountants and advisors on annual corporate tax filings, SR&ED claims, and audit engagements, providing accurate documentation and timely responses to requests.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA designation (completed or in final stages of completion).
• Strong technical accounting knowledge (including GAAP/IFRS where applicable).
• Advanced Excel proficiency (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, formula logic).
• ERP/accounting software experience (e.g., NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct—adaptable to your stack).
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities, especially in reconciling data and identifying financial discrepancies.
• Effective communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and audit preparation.
• People leadership skills, including the ability to mentor, delegate, and coach accounting staff.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and execute end-to-end month-end activities with minimal supervision, including preparing and reviewing journal entries, performing account reconciliations, verifying accruals and adjustments, and meeting reporting deadlines.
• Familiarity with close checklists and workflow coordination across departments (e.g., billing, AP, payroll) to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Demonstrated experience preparing full sets of financial statements—including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement—in accordance with applicable accounting frameworks such as IFRS, US GAAP, UK GAAP, or Australian Accounting Standards, depending on jurisdictional or consolidated reporting requirements. Includes compiling supporting schedules, ensuring consistency with accounting policies, and aligning financial presentation with audit, tax, or group consolidation needs.
• Familiarity with both standalone entity and group-level reporting is an asset.
• Ability to compile and validate supporting schedules such as deferred revenue, prepaid expenses, intercompany accounts, and FX revaluations, with strong understanding of impact on financial reporting.
• Practical experience preparing or reviewing indirect tax filings and statutory submissions tailored to regional requirements.
• Comfort working with auditors, tax advisors, or regulatory bodies to provide supporting documentation, respond to queries, and meet deadlines.
• Working knowledge of ERP/accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage, etc.), including navigating subledgers, running reports, and ensuring proper coding of transactions.
• Experience identifying process improvements or implementing control procedures to increase accuracy, efficiency, or audit readiness.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality outputs through attention to detail, double-checking work, and proactively flagging inconsistencies.
• Sound judgment in complex reconciliations and ability to connect financial data to operational activity.

Preferred Qualifications

• IFRS experience (asset).
• NetSuite experience (asset).

Compensation & Benefits

• 32 days of paid time off per year.
• Company-paid benefits that start on day 1.
• Work-from-home allowance.
• Professional development budget.

Location

• Remote-first with remote-friendly and supportive flexible remote arrangements.

Additional Information

• The selected candidate will be required to complete a background check.
• If you meet most (but not all) qualifications, you are encouraged to apply.
• Accommodations are available for special needs during the recruitment process.