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About the Role

The Accounting Manager will oversee daily accounting operations, including general ledger, month-end close, financial reporting, accounts payable, and treasury. This role involves transitioning accounting activities in-house, establishing processes and systems, and implementing AI-native solutions. The manager will also be the main contact for external tax, SR&ED, and grant advisors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transition of accounting activities from an external provider to in-house execution.
• Develop and document accounting policies and procedures, and design and operate internal controls.
• Design and deploy AI-native accounting and finance processes at the enterprise level.
• Manage the month-end close cycle and prepare monthly financial statements.
• Establish and maintain the fixed asset register and related capitalization policies.
• Support the evaluation and implementation of a scaled accounting or ERP platform.
• Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts, record transactions, and perform reconciliations.
• Maintain payroll accounting and employee-related accruals, and assume responsibility for payroll processing and statutory remittances.
• Lead the selection, implementation, and ongoing administration of a purchasing system.
• Design and maintain purchase approval, receiving, and matching workflows.
• Maintain reporting on open purchase commitments.
• Manage the accounts payable cycle and the corporate card and expense reimbursement programs.
• Support the CFO in the design of the company's program costing and cost accounting framework.
• Maintain the project accounting structure, cost allocation methodology, and supporting timekeeping processes.
• Prepare program and departmental cost reporting.
• Manage the SR&ED claim process in conjunction with external consultants.
• Maintain eligible cost tracking, substantiation, and documentation for government grant and funding programs.
• Act as the primary liaison to external advisors for corporate income tax compliance.
• Support insurance administration and renewals.
• Prepare and maintain the rolling cash flow forecast.
• Manage daily cash operations across Canadian and U.S. dollar accounts.
• Perform foreign exchange conversion, cash positioning, and banking administration.
• Manage collection of grant funding receivables.

Requirements

• CPA designation.
• Minimum six years of relevant accounting experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently perform and complete a full accounting cycle, including month-end close and financial statement preparation, without supervisory support.
• Experience developing accounting processes, workflows, or controls in an environment where they were not previously established.
• Experience in an early-stage or high-growth company.
• Full-cycle accounts payable experience.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in a professional finance or accounting setting, and the judgment to apply them to process design rather than to isolated tasks.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Eight or more years of relevant accounting experience (preferred).
• Public practice experience, followed by industry experience in a hands-on accounting capacity (preferred).
• Experience with both small-business accounting platforms such as QuickBooks Online and enterprise-grade systems such as NetSuite or Microsoft Dynamics (preferred).
• Cost accounting, project accounting, or job costing implementation experience (preferred).
• SR&ED, government grant, or investment tax credit experience (preferred).
• Purchasing or procurement system selection and implementation experience (preferred).
• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, or another capital- or inventory-intensive industry (preferred).
• Canadian payroll processing and statutory remittance experience (preferred).
• Multi-currency operations and import transaction experience (preferred).
• Working knowledge of a programming or query language, such as SQL, Python, or VBA (preferred).
• Experience configuring, administering, or integrating business software applications, including workflow automation between systems (preferred).
• Eligibility for, and ability to obtain and maintain, the security assessment required under Canada's Controlled Goods Program (CGP).

Skills

• AI tooling application
• Financial reporting
• Month-end close
• Accounts payable
• Treasury operations
• General ledger management
• Fixed asset accounting
• ERP system implementation
• Procure-to-pay process design
• Cost accounting
• Project accounting
• SR&ED claim management
• Government grant administration
• Tax compliance liaison
• Cash flow forecasting
• Cash management
• Foreign exchange
• Excel proficiency
• Analytical skills

Location

• Canada

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum six years of relevant accounting experience
• Eight or more years of relevant accounting experience (preferred)

Education Level

• CPA designation

About the Company

• Canada Rocket Company is registered under Canada's Controlled Goods Program (CGP), administered by Public Services and Procurement Canada.

Equal Opportunity

• Canada Rocket Company is an equal-opportunity employer.
• Accommodations are available on request at any stage of the recruitment process.