Accountant

Index Exchange; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global advertising supply-side platform is seeking a Revenue Accountant in Toronto to enhance billing and payment accuracy. You'll facilitate alignment between Sales, Finance, and Accounting, driving transparency in financial reporting. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of accounting experience and strong analytical skills, with a CPA preferred. Enjoy comprehensive health benefits, flexible schedules, and a workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans

Paid time off and flexible work schedules

Competitive retirement matching plans

Equity packages

Annual well-being allowance

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of progressive accounting and finance experience in a Big Four public accounting firm or large multinational company.
• Familiarity with revenue accounting processes.
• Experience in complex business processes within a global company.

Responsibilities

• Sustain processes enhancing visibility and accountability in customer payments.
• Streamline and automate processes for revenue recognition and reporting.
• Complete monthly reconciliations of contractual arrangements.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management

Technical expertise

Education

CPA or finance and accounting experience

Tools

Salesforce

Looker

Job description

About Index Exchange:

Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen. As a trusted partner and ally, we connect leading experience makers with the world’s largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers.

We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we’re committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large.

What’s it like to work at Index?

Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work. You'll be able to feed your ambition, lean into trust and transparency, and feel genuine support from your colleagues. We’re built on our core values and live them each day. They're not just buzzwords.

We pride ourselves on our independence and openness, not only in our technology, but in our teams, too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, and we’re looking for talented professionals to help take us to the next level.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution?

We are looking for an Revenue Accountantto join Index Exchange (“Index”), one of the world’s largest independent supply-side platforms providing a marketplace for Digital Advertising. Index Exchange is a global company with offices in 15 countries and has experienced rapid growth. This role will focus on aligning Sales, Finance and Accounting through extensive cross-collaboration to drive accuracy, transparency and timely reporting in our billing and payment of publisher remittances.

This role will work out of our Toronto, Canada, Office and report to the Senior Manager, Revenue Accounting.

What We’re Looking For:

• Trusted Collaborator:Work in a world-class team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability. Provide mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities to team members.
• Technical Expertise:Possess a good understanding of processes and controls, with a focus on working collaboratively with Sales, Services and Finance.
• Reporting and Metrics: Maintain meaningful performance metrics and reporting mechanisms to track the accuracy and completeness of financial records. Use data-driven insights to guide decision-making and triaging.
• Project Management: Collaborate with subject matter experts and with a network of peers to ensure on-time, quality delivery of various time-sensitive and critical projects.
• Driver of Outcomes: You are intentional in your path, establishing a vision or hypothesis, setting a direction, and are intentional in working with your team through execution.

Here’s What You’ll be Doing:

• Actively working to sustain processes that enhance visibility and accountability around the processing of standard and non-standard customer payments, by ensuring consistency across systems and operations.
• Find opportunities to streamline and automate processes to compile and analyze information from various sources and systems, while maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the accounting records. This will be facilitated by partnering with Sales, Accounting and IT teams to refine processes for revenue recognition and reporting.
• Work with Sales and Customer Success leadership to ensure there is clear visibility of the contract pipeline and to ensure it aligns with financial goals. Ensure all contract opportunities are vetted, onboarded and reported on in a centralized repository
• Work closely with the Publisher payments team to integrate processes to align with the monthly financial reporting close process.
• Maintaining dashboards for all custom agreements to ensure the accuracy of the administration of the relevant contract terms by Index.
• Continuously monitor specific revenue share metrics with a good understanding of Index-specific key performance indicators and how they can be impacted.
• Complete monthly reconciliations of both standard and non-standard contractual arrangements between Index and the Buy/Sell-side, to ensure that adjustments and payments are accurately processed for payment.
• Monitor and report on adjustments monthly, and investigate and resolve any discrepancies and unusual trends as they arise.
• Exhibits a professional demeanor, attention to detail and a sense of urgency to achieve outcomes.

Here's What You Need:

• Minimum 3 years of progressive accounting and finance experience in a Big Four public accounting firm or in a large multi-national company.
• Familiarity with completing processes associated with revenue accounting
• CPA or finance & accounting experience preferred
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical and data manipulation skills, with the ability to track metrics and key performance indicators and with the appropriate guidance, turn them into actionable strategies
• Must be able to present and share data in a clear and engaging manner
• Experience in working within complex business processes in a dynamic global company with a proven track record of success
• Ability to build trust with cross-functional stakeholders to create trust and foster an environment for collaboration, knowledge and information sharing.
• Familiarity with CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce) and their administration is a plus
• Working knowledge and moderate proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g. Looker), to be able to manage dashboards for monitoring and reporting.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation, pleasesharethe details of your request and any information how we can assist you with thehiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts toensure accommodation requests are metthroughoutthe recruitment process.

Index Everywhere, Index Anywhere

Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

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