Accounting Manager - Ottawa, Canada - i-Sight

i-Sight

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

i-Sight helps companies protect their employees, culture, and business through world-class software for uncovering, investigating, and preventing fraud, ethics, harassment, discrimination, and security incidents.

We're proud to count a roster of Fortune 500 companies among our customers, which have relied on i-Sight for managing millions of cases over the past 20 years and helping mitigate both financial and brand risk.

With massive growth ahead for i-Sight, we're looking for an experienced
Accounting Manager to assist with the execution of accounting principles and procedures throughout the organization's accounting cycle and ensure excellence in i-Sight's day-to-day financial accounting and reporting functions.

In this role (remote-first), your focus in this role will be to assist in developing, implementation, and maintaining departmental procedures, while assisting with month end close and maintaining multiple balance sheet accounts within appropriate accounting control procedures.

Reporting to the Controller, you will supervise, leverage and develop strengths of the current accounting team and will need to understand i-Sight's business transactions and their related impact on the general ledger and financial statements in order to provide astute analysis to the management team.

Main Responsibilities:

Supervise and develop members of the accounting team
Daily review of all transactions and balance sheet accounts, reconciling any discrepancies
Oversee accounts payable, the appropriate use of expense accounts in the GL, as well as reconciling and expensing the organizations' credit cards
Oversee accounts receivable, collections and monthly revenue recognition
Assist with payroll and benefits (although not directly responsible for processing or administering the benefits)
Lead monthend process, including accounts reconciliation, adjusting journal entries, fixed asset depreciation, etc.
Assist with creation of variance analysis from forecasted values, and communicate those discrepancies
Reconcile monthly bank statements
Ensure compliance of local, provincial and federal requirements for accounting practices and participate in annual audit requests
Manage monthly, quarterly and annual tax reporting and compliance and support yearend process
Ensure quality control over financial transactions and reporting
Assist with development and documentation of business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal control measures
Work with individuals on the accounting team and throughout the organization to resolve any clientlevel (internal and external) accounting issues
Additional projects and responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years' finance and accounting experience
23 years of supervisory experience
Bachelor's degree in accounting, CPA considered an asset
Experience working with multiple currencies
Payroll Experience (Canadian payroll considered a strong asset)
Excellent knowledge of US GAAP and internal controls
Ability to process information in a deeply analytical manner
Ability to handle changing and high pressure situations
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (macros, pivot tables, lookup functions)
Selfmotivated, proactive and able to work independently with little supervision while managing multiple priorities and deadlines
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with a superior command of English

Perks and Benefits:

Work remotely within a casual and flexible work environment (our team spans the US and Canada)
Competitive companypaid benefits plan
Generous professional development budget
Halfday Fridays in the summer + weekly meeting free time blocks
Eligibility to participate in iSight RRSP/401K matching program