Senior Staff Accountant

Overview

This role supports a growing, fast-moving organization as a hands-on Senior Staff Accountant. The position owns key accounting activities while also providing support across financial analysis, payroll, and special projects as business needs evolve.

The role is suited to someone comfortable operating independently in a lean environment, bringing disciplined accounting standards while remaining flexible and willing to roll up their sleeves.

Responsibilities

• Own key elements of the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and help produce accurate, timely financial statements and management reporting.
• Analyze results, investigate variances, identify trends and underlying drivers, and translate findings into clear business insights.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow analysis, and other financial planning activities.
• Partner with payroll providers and internal stakeholders to support accurate payroll processing, reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution.
• Support the controller with special projects.
• Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, expense management, tax, audit, and compliance activities as needed.
• Take on special projects that may extend beyond traditional accounting, using sound judgment and analytical skills to solve practical business problems.
• Help strengthen controls, documentation, reporting, and processes while keeping solutions fit for the size and stage of the organization.
• Collaborate across functions and geographies, communicating financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Work effectively with external auditors, tax advisors, payroll partners, banks, and other service providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Five to seven years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful ownership of close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Hands-on, team-first mindset, with the ability to lead when needed and complete detailed work.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build effective working relationships across different cultures, geographies, functions, and professional backgrounds.
• Experience working in treasury, travel and expense processing and management, and procurement.
• Experience in a small company, high-growth business, or start-up environment where priorities shift and team members contribute beyond their core remit.
• Experience in a larger, well-established organization that provided exposure to strong controls, disciplined processes, and high-quality financial reporting.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including variance analysis, forecasting, data interpretation, and clear communication of conclusions.
• Advanced Excel or spreadsheet skills.
• Experience working in NetSuite; comfort learning new tools quickly.
• Working knowledge of IFRS.
• Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Reliable and discreet handling of sensitive financial and payroll information with sound judgment and integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent designation (helpful but not required).
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency, or cross-border operations.
• Global accounting, international payroll, or geographically dispersed business experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including base + bonus.
• Benefits including medical, dental, life, and 401K matching.
• Additional supplemental benefits.

Location

This role may be based in Montreal, Atlanta, New Jersey, New York, or Dallas.

• If in Montreal: hybrid basis out of a downtown office.
• If in the U.S.: remote with the potential for quarterly travel, which in some cases with be international.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the country where they will be employed. Unfortunately, we are unwilling to sponsor work visas.