Senior Accountant

Field Effect; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their dynamic finance team. This role involves overseeing daily financial activities, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and preparing detailed financial reports. You'll collaborate with talented professionals in a hybrid work environment, contributing to exciting projects that shape the future of cybersecurity. The company values personal and professional growth, offering competitive compensation and extensive benefits. If you're ready to make a significant impact and thrive in a supportive culture, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Generous paid vacation

Competitive compensation

Opportunity for professional growth

Workplace of opportunity

Qualifications

• 3+ years of accounting experience with strong knowledge of GAAP and IFRS.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills are essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day finance activities including reconciliations and project billing.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting and maintain documentation for bookkeeping.

Skills

Accounting experience

GAAP knowledge

SEC knowledge

IFRS knowledge

MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving mindset

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Chartered Professional Accountancy designation (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Business Central ERP

Job description

Field Effect is looking for a Senior Accountant to join their growing finance team. Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Senior Accountant will oversee:

• Day to day finance-related activities, including bank reconciliations, project billing, project revenue and expense tracking and analysis, sales tax reconciliations and reporting
• General accounting duties including revenue recognition assessments, project profitability monitoring, and sales tax filing and compliance
• Prepare elements of monthly financial reporting variance analysis and summary charts
• Maintain an accurate and complete trail of supporting documentation for all financial and bookkeeping activities
• Support company sales initiatives, including preparation and submission of invoices to partners and customers
• Supporting other finance-related activities, including audits and ad-hoc cross-functional reporting
• Participate in meetings as required with colleagues and clients
• Please note that this is a hybrid role.

Experience & skills we look for:

• 3+ years of accounting experience
• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Advanced knowledge of core MS Office suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint)
• Hands-on experience working with journal entries and account reconciliations
• Experience with year-end and reporting
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written including report writing
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Solution-oriented mindset with a desire to take initiative to solve problems
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize and manage deliverables
• Solid organizational skills, and critical thinking skills with a strong attention to detail
• Adaptable and flexible to changing priorities
• Ability to work well within a team and individually
• Flexible working hours may be required

Added Bonuses:

• Working towards Chartered Professional Accountancy designation is preferred, but not required
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Microsoft Business Central ERP (financial reporting system)

What You’ll Get by Joining Our Team:

• Your brilliance will get a runway
• You will be surrounded by industry leading cyber security experts
• You will help shape the future of cybersecurity
• A workplace of opportunity
• Competitive compensation & Extensive Benefits such as generous paid vacation

If this sounds exciting, we would love to hear from you! Please note that only the candidate(s) selected for the next phase of the hiring process will be contacted directly.

About Us:

People rarely can say that they work at a job they truly love—unless, of course, they work at Field Effect. We believe in investing in the personal and professional success of our employees. We want our teammates to feel great about the work that they do and about themselves when they are with us. That is our culture.

We have an all-star team with industry leading cyber security knowledge and analytical thinking that is engaged, motivated, genuinely curious, and has the willingness to be as diligent as possible. Field Effect is a rapidly growing company with an increasingly distributed global workforce that provides world-class managed cyber security solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company was founded by the brightest talents in cyber security, with a mission to remove the complexity of securing endpoints and networks by delivering monitoring and threat protection services that are easy to use and provide actionable insights.

Field Effect has earned their outstanding reputation through innovation, ingenuity and drive to change the cyber security industry. As a result of the exceptional workplace and culture they have built, Field Effect has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Small and Medium Employers in 2023. In addition, they have been consistently named one of the top employers in Ottawa, by Invest Ottawa. This team is committed to helping businesses simplify and improve their cyber security by empowering their employees to collaborate, grow and thrive in their fields.

Field Effect is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, colour, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us.