Senior Financial Accountant

Summary

Join ThoughtExchange as a Senior Financial Accountant and play a crucial role in our Finance Team! Drive month-end and year-end financial close processes, prepare financial reports, and ensure accuracy in all accounting tasks. You will manage the annual financial audit, assist with corporate tax returns, and improve reporting systems. This is an 18-month fixed-term maternity leave cover position, with a possibility of extension. Candidates in the PST or MST time zone are preferred. ThoughtExchange offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work arrangements and a focus on employee well-being.

Requirements

• CPA Designation
• 3-5 years of accounting experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a senior accounting role
• Advanced knowledge of main accounting principles (ASPE & US GAAP)
• Ability to complete tasks with high accuracy by the deadline
• Ability to handle confidential data with a high degree of professionalism
• Self-starter with high initiative and ownership
• High attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Drive month-end and year-end close and respective reporting including supporting other team members in month-end tasks as necessary
• Use a strong understanding of TE financial statements, drivers, cash flow, profits and high attention to detail to analyze financial performance against budget and forecasts
• Drive the annual financial audit and assist with reconciliation of ASPE to US GAAP; Apply accounting principles to business activities, identify solutions and escalate issues to appropriate level to drive resolution
• Provide support to the VP, Finance in preparing investor and lender reporting, dashboards, annual budgets and forecasts to enable decision-making
• Ensure accuracy and efficiency in all accounting tasks by reviewing existing processes and providing recommendations for improvements
• Improve current reporting systems which includes making recommendations to the VP, Finance on sourcing and presentation of data and metrics
• Collaborates with Finance and other cross-functional teams (i.e. RevOps, People, Legal) to identify financial issues, generate solutions and understand impacts
• Demonstrate high proficiency as a superuser in accounting/finance systems and tools (i.e. Sage Intacct, BambooHR, Shareworks) and document system task processes and workarounds; administer and work in more complex finance systems
• Assist with Employee Shares & Options and Corporate Taxes
• Proactively determine own work schedule with guidance from VP Finance; identifies potential workload issues and effectively prioritizes to meet all financial and compliance deadlines
• Guide/mentor other junior accountants within team to share best practices and advice
• Demonstrate exemplary professional behaviour in role and can identify sensitive ethical situations and seek guidance where necessary. This includes working with finance leads to ensure a high level of integrity around financial statements and understanding high risk areas (i.e. revenue recognition, bonus calculations and other areas, etc)
• Use the utmost discretion when dealing with confidential, personal, or sensitive data

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-ledger accounting systems
• Experience with Shareworks and other relevant software
• Experience in SaaS
• Experience in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• From day one, you’ll receive a benefits package focused on health & wellness that includes a generous time off policy, flexible extended benefits plan options, and company-wide wellness days off scheduled through the year
• Our benefits package also includes maternity & parental leave top-up programs and access to Maple, Inklebot, and Headspace which support our employees' primary care, mental health, and wellness needs
• We’ve been remote-first for over ten years
• We’re contribution-focused and operate on mutual trust because we need you to feel empowered to be your best self
• We pay fairly, considering the complexities of market rates, experience, location, and demand
• We believe in pay transparency and pay equity
• In addition to competitive pay and benefits, employees receive share options when joining the company
• We host regular learning sessions
• You also have access to an annual Professional Development stipend & Company Coach to ensure you can grow in your role & advance your career