Controller

Bree Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Toronto is seeking a Controller to establish robust accounting processes and ensure the accuracy of financial statements. The ideal candidate will have a CPA designation, 4-8 years of experience, and a passion for automating accounting workflows. Competitive compensation, generous annual stipends, and unlimited PTO are offered.

Benefits

1,500 annual learning stipend

1,000 annual wellness stipend

250 monthly lunch stipend

Annual company retreats

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Qualifications

• 4-8 years total experience, including public-practice audit or assurance.
• Experience in high-growth fintech or tech-enabled lender.
• Familiarity with Canadian financial-services regulation and tax.

Responsibilities

• Build the General Ledger and document accounting policies.
• Drive a 5-day month-end close process.
• Prepare lender packages and lead annual audits.

Skills

CPA designation

Hands-on month-end close

Command of accounting for consumer-lending products

Fluency in Excel / Google Sheets

Attention to accuracy and detail

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SQL

BI tools

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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. Our first act is becoming the cheapest and best provider of short-term credit to the 20 million people in Canada who live paycheck to paycheck.

More than 400,000 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 fintech companies in Canada.

We have 8-figures of annualized revenue, double-digit monthly growth, profitability, and had 0 voluntary employee churn. We were part of Y Combinator in 2021 and raised a $2M seed round shortly after.

About the Role

We’re hiring our first Controller to build a rock-solid accounting foundation and own the integrity of Bree’s financial statements. You’ll set up and automate end-to-end accounting processes, close the books fast and clean every month, and ready us for lender and audit scrutiny—while partnering with leadership on decision-critical insights.

What You’ll Own

• Build the General Ledger – design, implement and document accounting policies and internal controls
• Month-End Close – drive a 5-day close : reconcile cash, loans, funding lines, revenue, fees and reserves to the cent
• Regulatory & Investor Reporting – prepare lender packages; lead annual audit and tax filings
• Systems & Automations – partner with engineering to integrate transactional data streams and eliminate manual work
• Treasury Management – maintain A / R and A / P aging, and cash-flow forecasts
• Finance Ops Partnership – support operations / finance teams with timely actuals and variance explanations; refine the financial model as needed

What You’ll Bring

CPA designation (required) with 4–8 years total experience, including public-practice audit or assurance

Hands-on ownership of month-end close, controls and audit prep—ideally at a high-growth fintech or tech-enabled lender

Command of accounting for consumer-lending products

Fluency in Excel / Google Sheets; comfort digging into SQL or BI tools to validate data

Obsession with accuracy, detail and process design—automating whenever possible

Growth mindset, low ego, bias for action, and alignment with Bree’s core values of Customer Empathy, Ownership, and Results-Oriented

Preferred

Experience scaling from Series A / B to >

100 M loan book

Familiarity with Canadian financial-services regulation and tax

Top of the market compensation for top performers

1,500 annual learning and WFH office setup stipend

1,000 annual wellness stipend

250 monthly lunch stipend

Annual company retreats, unlimited PTO, parental leave

If you’re an accounting nerd who loves building systems from scratch and wants to shape the financial backbone of a category-defining fintech, we’d love to meet you.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Accounting / Auditing and Finance

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