Accounting Lead

bree

Toronto

On-site

CAD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Top of the market compensation

Health, dental, and vision benefits

$1,500 annual learning & home-office $

$1,000 annual wellness stipend

Monthly Lunch Stipend

Commuter Benefits

Paid Parental leave

20 annual PTO days + unlimited sick*

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Job summary

Bree is transforming its Finance & Accounting team by bringing in-house close processes and leading a major ERP implementation. This role owns AP/AR end to end, brings journal entries in-house, and drives the month-end close for two Canadian entities, under ASPE, with close collaboration to ensure accuracy and timeliness.

You will build management reports, support audits, and help automate finance workflows using SQL/Snowflake and Metabase.

Qualifications

4+ years of full-cycle accounting including owning a month-end close.
ASPE grounding; work through unusual items and document positions.
Multi-entity experience with consolidations and intercompany.
Attention to detail to catch subtle variances.
Strong Excel/Sheets at scale; SQL aptitude or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

Own AP and AR end to end, ensuring aging is current and vendors are paid on time.
Bring journal entries in house with supporting documentation for auditors.
Run month-end and year-end close under ASPE with reconciliations and working papers.
Produce financial statements for two entities and intercompany schedules for management reporting.
Take the lead on ERP implementation, including configuration, data validation, and testing.
Automate workflows to reduce manual tasks using available tooling.
Support the audit through schedules preparation and answering auditor queries.

Skills

AP/AR ownership

Month-end close

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

High agency

Concise communicator

Low ego

SQL literacy

Education

4+ years full-cycle accounting

ASPE grounding

CPA is a plus

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

SQL

Snowflake

Metabase

Job description

About Bree

Bree is a consumer finance platform that brings better, faster, and cheaper financial services to over half the Canadian population who live paycheck to paycheck. We operate in a huge, but overlooked market in a country with the least amount of financial technology innovation in the developed world. Our first act is to become the cheapest and best provider of short-term credit to the 20 million people in Canada who live paycheck to paycheck.

More than 800,000 Canadians have already signed up with Bree and we believe we are just scratching the surface. We are in an exciting place where we have product market fit, explosive growth, and a clear path to becoming one of the most important FinTechs in Canada.

We have had zero voluntary employee churn. We were part of Y Combinator in 2021 and raised a $2M seed round shortly after.

About the Role

Finance & Accounting at Bree is a small team supported by an external bookkeeper. That setup has served us well, but as the business grows we want more of the accounting sitting in house, where the person doing the work is close to the business and can move at the same speed as everyone else.

We're also moving off QuickBooks onto a new ERP. That gives whoever takes this role a rare opening: a chance to revamp the close alongside the new system rather than work around a process that's already set. It's a meaningful project on top of the day-to-day, and the person in this seat will help shape how we do things going forward.

This is the role for someone who wants to own a close end to end, not be the third reviewer on one.

What you'll actually do

Own AP and AR end to end. Review what comes in, resolve what doesn't tie, chase vendors who go quiet, and keep aging current on both sides so nothing gets paid late and nothing gets collected late.
Bring the journal entries in house. Recurring and one-off, each one posted with support you'd be comfortable handing to an auditor without explanation. Much of this sits with our bookkeeper today and will shift to you over time.
Run the close. Accruals, account analysis, reconciliations, working papers - month-end and year-end, under ASPE, on a calendar people can plan around.
Produce the statements. We run two entities. You'll build the financials, the intercompany, and the schedules behind the management reporting package our stakeholders actually read.
Take the lead on the ERP implementation. Configuration, data validation, testing, documentation, and deciding how the workflow should run once we're live. The Controller will be in it with you, but this is yours to drive.
Automate what shouldn't be manual. We use LLMs day to day. You'll spot the workflows that don't need a person and automate them.
Support the audit. Prepare the schedules, answer the questions, and close the loop on anything the auditors raise. Finance is a two-person team, so this is shared work between you and the Controller.

Who we're looking for

CPA is a plus, not a requirement. We care more about what you've actually done. Strong hands-on experience beats a designation on its own.
4+ years of full-cycle accounting, including owning a month-end close rather than contributing to one.
Real ASPE grounding. When something unusual shows up, you work through it, land on a position, and write down why — before anyone asks.
Multi-entity experience. Consolidations, intercompany, and the discipline to keep two sets of books clean at the same time.
Extreme attention to detail. You chase a $400 variance because you don't know yet whether it's $400 or the first $400 of something bigger.
Technically literate. Excel and Google Sheets at scale are table stakes. SQL, or the appetite to learn it fast — our data lives in Snowflake and we query it through Metabase, and the good questions get answered there, not in a report someone exports for you.
High agency. Nobody is going to hand you a close checklist. If you spot a gap on Monday, it's documented by Tuesday.
Concise communicator. You use the minimum number of words to get a message across.
Low ego. You'll build a financial statement in the morning, chase a vendor invoice at lunch, and test an ERP workflow in the afternoon. None of it is beneath you.