Corporate Accountant

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

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