Accounting Lead, Customer Success

Propra; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A Calgary-based startup is seeking an Accounting Lead, Customer Success, to guide customers through onboarding and maximize product value. This role involves building relationships, mentoring team members, and overseeing customer satisfaction metrics. Ideal candidates have experience in property management or financial services and strong leadership skills. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration in transforming property management while ensuring customers thrive with their products.

Benefits

Opportunities for growth

Collaborative environment

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of leadership experience managing team members.
• Experience with property management or financial services preferred.
• Ability to devise creative solutions to customer challenges.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Mentor and train junior team members in accounting knowledge.
• Lead customers through onboarding processes.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Account management

Problem-solving

Leadership

Technical accounting knowledge

Tools

HubSpot

Intercom

Job description

Company Description

Are you looking to transform an industry stuck in outdated systems and processes? Join Propra, an early-stage startup based in Calgary, on a mission to revolutionize property management and put it on autopilot. Propra is reimagining property management with a focus on using technology to alleviate the administrative burden for landlords and property managers, allowing them to focus on growing their business and delivering an exceptional living experience for their residents. Leading the team, you have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on both the resident and landlord experience. We’re a highly collaborative and customer-focused team, eager to welcome individuals who are ready to stretch beyond traditional roles to drive innovation and excellence.

Job Description

We’re looking for a proactive and customer-focused Accounting Lead, Customer Success to join our team. With your experience in accounting, you can lead the team by setting standards and best practices while acting as a primary client contact to guide and advise customers through their onboarding journey and as they use the software. You will be responsible for ensuring our customers achieve success with Propra’s products and services, especially the accounting and financial tools – spearheading processes and driving product adoption, and ensuring that our solutions provide maximum value.

Areas of Focus

• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships through regular check-ins, providing guidance, and addressing concerns.
• Mentor and train junior Customer Success Managers, ensuring the team has the technical accounting knowledge required to succeed.
• Provide exceptional customer support, serving as the final point of escalation for complex accounting discrepancies and critical client disputes, ensuring timely case resolution, including addressing queries about accounting and financials.
• Lead and support customers through onboarding their businesses including from an accounting perspective, ensuring they are fully trained and set up to achieve quick wins, and identifying opportunities to streamline parts of the process.
• Own team-wide KPIs. Track and report on key metrics such as customer satisfaction, retention rates, and platform adoption, analyzing the data to identify training gaps or systemic issues.
• Document unexpected bugs and work with the tech team to test and communicate fixes.
• Oversee the quality and structure of Propra’s resource hub for customer support and platform documentation.
• Drive cross‑functional strategy as the voice of the customer within the company, collaborating with Product, Sales, and Marketing to meet customer needs.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the department and identify opportunities for upselling and cross‑selling additional services, ensuring customers derive maximum value from the platform.

Qualifications

• Prior experience with property management (residential rental and/or condominium / strata), financial services, operations, or bookkeeping solutions is preferable.
• Familiarity with and/or any experience in customer success or a related field, preferably in a B2B SaaS/software environment.
• Proven ability to manage customer relationships and ensure satisfaction.
• Minimum 1-2 years of leadership experience. Ability to coach team members, review their work, and provide constructive feedback to improve team performance.
• Experience with customer success software and CRM tools (eg. HubSpot, Intercom) is a plus.
• Experience writing help center articles, video tutorials, product documentation, or internal SOPs.
• Experience leading and growing a team.
• Ability to think outside the box and develop creative solutions to customer challenges, leveraging available resources and collaboration to find the best outcomes.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to identify trends in customer data (e.g., recurring bugs or churn risks) and propose strategic solutions to the Product team.
• Empathy and strong interpersonal skills to build trust with customers, understand their challenges, and provide timely solutions.
• Adaptable and flexible to the fast‑paced, ever‑changing demands of a growing startup.
• Strong team player who is willing to go the extra mile for the customer.

Additional Information

At Propra, we believe in fostering a collaborative environment where everyone is empowered to contribute ideas and challenge the status quo. We value creativity, teamwork, and a customer‑first mindset, and offer a dynamic, fast‑paced work environment with plenty of opportunities for growth and learning. We’re looking for someone who shares our vision of transforming property management through innovation. If you’re passionate about solving problems, driving customer success, and leveraging technology to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you! At Propra, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We appreciate the interest of all applicants, and while we may not be able to contact everyone, we will reach out to those selected for an interview. Please note that successful candidates may undergo a security screening, including a criminal records check.