Senior Accountant (12 Month Contract)

Location: Remote, Canada

Salary: CA$80.8K–CA$100.1K per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops background-check and trust solutions that help people move into jobs, homes, and other opportunities.

What you will do

• Lead regional month-end close activities and ensure accurate, complete, and timely financial reporting.
• Review journal entries, supporting calculations, account reconciliations, accruals, adjustments, intercompany transactions, and close checklists.
• Oversee accounts payable, billing, accounting systems, internal controls, and process improvements.
• Prepare financial reports, variance analysis, and insights for leadership, Finance, FP&A, consolidation, board reporting, and investor communications.
• Support and guide regional accounting staff while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Manage GST, PST, Employer Health Tax, statutory remittances, corporate tax filings, SR&ED claims, and external audit engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA designation completed or in the final stages of completion.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including applicable GAAP and IFRS frameworks.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and formula logic.
• ERP or accounting software experience, such as NetSuite, QuickBooks, or Sage Intacct, including subledgers, reporting, and transaction coding.
• Experience managing end-to-end month-end activities, preparing and reviewing journal entries, reconciling accounts, verifying accruals and adjustments, and meeting reporting deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Experience preparing complete financial statements, including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, under applicable IFRS, US GAAP, UK GAAP, or Australian Accounting Standards.
• Ability to prepare and validate supporting schedules for deferred revenue, prepaid expenses, intercompany accounts, and FX revaluations.
• Experience with indirect tax filings, statutory submissions, auditors, tax advisors, or regulatory bodies.
• Analytical, problem-solving, communication, judgment, and attention-to-detail skills, including identifying discrepancies and connecting financial data to operational activity.
• People leadership skills, including mentoring, delegation, and coaching of accounting staff.
• Familiarity with close checklists and coordination across billing, AP, payroll, and other departments.
• Experience improving processes or implementing controls to increase accuracy, efficiency, and audit readiness.

Nice to have

• Experience with standalone entity and group-level reporting.
• Additional IFRS experience.
• NetSuite experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible remote work arrangements with a work-from-home allowance.
• 32 days of paid time off per year and company-paid benefits from day one.
• Professional development budget.
• High-performance culture focused on ownership, urgency, customer focus, continuous learning, feedback, and collaboration.
• AI tools are used across the organization to support work and recruitment.
• The selected candidate must complete a background check.

Hiring process

• Recruitment uses AI tools to organize applications and identify early matches, while rejection decisions are made by humans.
• Applications should be authentic; candidates are encouraged not to rely solely on AI-generated responses, particularly during interviews.