Senior Accountant

Overview

This role strengthens the accounting function by owning key areas of the accounting cycle, improving revenue accounting and reporting, supporting audit readiness, and helping modernize accounting systems. The position is fully remote and open to candidates anywhere in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Own significant areas of the accounting cycle, including complex journal entries and reconciliations, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, and audit support.
• Review reconciliations and supporting schedules prepared by the team; investigate unusual items and ensure the close is complete and ready for Controller review.
• When accounting issues are complex or do not reconcile, investigate root causes and recommend the right path forward using sound judgment.
• Strengthen revenue accounting and reporting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting.
• Coordinate with teams responsible for invoicing, receivables, and recurring revenue schedules to connect business activity with accounting records.
• Review accounting outputs, investigate discrepancies, and resolve complex or unusual transactions to ensure revenue is recognized appropriately and schedules reconcile to the general ledger.
• Ensure recurring revenue metrics are accurately prepared and reconciled, supporting reliable financial and business reporting.
• Contribute accounting context and insights to budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Support cash management, including short-term cash forecasting and cash flow variance analysis, with visibility into upcoming cash requirements.
• Contribute to a transition to a new accounting platform, including defining requirements, improving workflows, data validation, testing, and migration.
• Identify recurring problems, unnecessary manual work, and opportunities to simplify processes, strengthen controls, and apply automation or AI thoughtfully.
• Turn improvement opportunities into practical changes; strengthen documentation and knowledge sharing across the team.

Requirements

• Strong technical accounting expertise and sound judgment; ability to independently own complex work.
• Experience independently owning significant areas of month-end and year-end close, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, working papers, and general ledger accounting.
• Experience preparing or supporting financial reporting, ensuring underlying records are accurate, complete, and well supported.
• Experience working across revenue recognition, invoicing, receivables, or other core accounting activities, including understanding how these connect through the accounting cycle.
• Ability to investigate complex accounting questions and discrepancies and determine an appropriate path forward using professional judgment.
• Experience supporting external audits with strong documentation, controls, and audit readiness.
• Experience improving accounting processes, workflows, or systems to reduce manual work, strengthen reliability, and improve efficiency.
• Ability to work independently in evolving environments, knowing when to decide, collaborate, or escalate.
• Comfortable working with cloud-based accounting systems and learning new technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with recurring revenue reporting and deferred revenue.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash management, or accounting system implementations.
• Recurring revenue reporting, deferred revenue, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, or accounting system implementations.
• CPA designation, or progress toward one (asset, not required).

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $95,000–$105,000 CAD (aligned to role scope, experience, and internal equity).
• Annual learning budget: $3,000.
• Employee stock options.
• Fully remote within Canada; up to six weeks per year to work internationally.
• Self-directed vacation (most teammates take 4–6 weeks annually).
• Monthly team time off (“Acity Days” – a collective Friday off).
• Two-week company-wide closure each December.
• Health benefits from day one for you and your dependents.
• 2% GRSP matching program.
• 16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI, available to all parents.

Location

• Fully remote role open to candidates anywhere in Canada.

Interview Process (Summary)

• Hiring process typically takes 2–4 weeks.
• Includes application review, an intro conversation, a conversation with the Controller, team conversations, and reference checks.

Notes for Applicants

• AI may be used thoughtfully when preparing your application and conversations, but shared content must reflect your own experience, thinking, and judgment. During live conversations, please do not use AI to generate responses unless invited to do so.
• Baseline requirements include Canadian residency and valid work authorization, which may affect eligibility for consideration.