Senior Technical Accountant

SurveyMonkey; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SurveyMonkey seeks a Technical Accountant to join their finance team in Ottawa. The ideal candidate will handle financial reporting, compliance, and accounting standards using U.S. GAAP. With a focus on collaboration, this role supports strategic financial operations while fostering career growth within an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Community service week

C.H.O.I.C.E Fund

Qualifications

• 3+ years of accounting or audit experience required.
• Experience applying U.S. GAAP and internal controls is essential.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial reporting including monthly statements and annual reports.
• Coordinate with external auditors and gather validation across the organization.
• Support monthly closing activities related to debt and lease accounting.

Skills

U.S. GAAP

Internal Controls

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA license preferred

Tools

Netsuite

Job description

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.

Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com .

What we’re looking for

We're looking for a sharp, organized, analytical, and curious Technical Accountant to join our small but mighty finance team. From accounting to tax, treasury, planning and budgeting, our group supports the business to make sure SurveyMonkey grows and stays healthy, whilst providing opportunity to be challenged and learn across a depth of areas. Reporting to the Senior Technical Accountant, you are a self-motivated contributor with working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SEC Reporting, and internal controls. If you're ready to bring your strategic finance skills to SurveyMonkey, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll be working on

• Help prepare all internal and external financial reporting, including monthly financial statements, internal board reporting, regulatory/covenant compliance, and annual reports.
• Prepare workpapers supporting footnote disclosures, strategic planning and management reporting.
• Coordinate the information gathering and validation process across the organization and work with external auditors, including preparing the annual U.S. GAAP disclosure checklist.
• Support the monthly closing activities, with a focus on debt accounting (ASC 470), lease accounting (ASC 842), equity accounting (ASC 718), and capitalized software (ASC 350). This includes preparing journal entries and monthly balance sheet account reconciliations as well as ad-hoc analysis.
• Assist in maintaining processes behind internal control scoping, rationalization, and compliance.
• Help evaluate new accounting standards (new ASUs) and non-standard transactions (e.g. equity grants, lease modifications, acquisitions, impairment assessments).
• Help with ad-hoc technical accounting issues; research, document, record and communicate technical accounting matters.

We’d love to hear from people with

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3+ years of accounting or audit experience
• Experience applying U.S. GAAP and internal controls
• Experience with Netsuite is preferred
• CPA license preferred (or equivalent certification)

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, you will be required to work from a SurveyMonkey office up to 1 day per week.

#LI - Hybrid

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow. We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service , learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week , and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund .

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

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