Senior Accounting Manager
Parallel Domain
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Vancouver • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$130,000 - CA$150,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Own day-to-day accounting operations across the US, Canada, and Germany, including GL, AP/AR, payroll, and expense management.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and consolidations.
- Ensure compliance with US GAAP and local statutory requirements, oversee tax filings, and manage relationships with external accountants, payroll providers, and other partners.
- Deliver timely financial statements, management reports, and KPI dashboards for the CEO and leadership team.
- Support company-wide planning and forecasting for headcount, budgets, and expenses.
- Partner with business leaders to provide financial insights, scenario modeling, and analysis that inform strategic decisions.
- Build scalable policies, processes, and tools to support a growing workforce.
- Oversee coordination with HR and payroll providers to ensure smooth onboarding, payroll, and benefits administration.
- Provide lightweight people operations support and contribute to company-wide initiatives that intersect with finance, operations, and people management.
- Implement and optimize financial systems and tools to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and reporting workflows.
- Drive automation of recurring finance and operational tasks to free up capacity for strategic work.
- Act as the senior-most finance leader in the organization, reporting directly to the CEO.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, ideally including both public accounting and within a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
- CPA (or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP; familiarity with Canadian and German statutory accounting a plus.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-entity, multi-currency accounting operations.
- Experience supporting FP&A, budgeting, and KPI reporting in a scaling company.
- Exposure to SaaS revenue recognition and enterprise B2B business models.
- Proven ability to implement scalable systems, processes, and internal controls.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to partner across functions and act as a trusted advisor to executives.
- Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable balancing tactical work with strategic initiatives.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Employer-paid supplemental medical, mental health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible paid vacation, sick time, winter shutdown, and 11+ holidays per year
- Paid parental leave
- Equipment budget to optimize your setup
- Annual learning and development stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
accounting operationsGLAPARpayrollexpense managementfinancial statementsKPI dashboardsbudgetingFP&A
Soft skills
strong communicationstrategic initiativestrusted advisorproactivetactical workpartnering across functionsleadershippeople operations supportanalytical skillscollaboration
Certifications
CPA