Hootsuite is looking for a Corporate Accountant to support the controllership team with full-cycle accounting, month-end close processes, financial reporting, and audit requests. The role involves collaborating with various teams, preparing financial statements, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Responsibilities
- Full-cycle accounting: supporting the month-end close, preparing monthly continuity schedules and reconciling general ledger and sub-ledger accounts, as needed
- Preparing monthly/quarterly detailed financial statements variance analysis
- Supporting the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
- Preparing the monthly international financial reporting packages and reconciling local subsidiary and corporate general ledgers
- Supporting the fiscal year-end audit and statutory audit
- Collaborate with external auditors to understand audit requests and requirements, including timelines
- Liaising with sales operations, partner managers, accounts receivable, and accounts payable teams for reconciliations, accruals, payments and audit requests
- Supporting in the preparation of technical accounting memos under U.S. GAAP
- Playing a lead role in standardizing, streamlining, and simplifying account reconciliations
- Special projects, as needed
Skills
- Some practical or relevant accounting experience within a Finance team, including experience as an auditor for public accounting firm working on public company audits (experience with PCAOB standards preferred)
- Bachelor's Degree in Business; or equivalent education and experience
- CPA Designation, or enrolled in CPA Program
- Accountability: holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
- Commitment to Results: consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
- Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess the importance of tasks and decisions
- Self Development: is personally committed to, and actively works to continuously improve
Company Overview
- Hootsuite develops a platform for managing social media programs across multiple social networks. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://hootsuite.com/.