Accounting Manager - 1 day in Office

Job description:

• 0.5 - 1 day in office in Kitchener, ON
• Up to $125k base salary
• SAAS + Manufacturing

We are running a search for an Accounting Manager who will take ownership of the monthly close inside a growing Canadian technology company with a hardware plus subscription revenue model. This is a newly elevated seat reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, and the person who steps in will not inherit a polished process. You build it. If you have personally run a multi-entity, multi-currency close in a hardware environment and want a role where the close is genuinely yours, this is one to look at.

COMPANY

• Canadian-headquartered technology company operating in the connected hardware space, with a recurring software and services revenue layer alongside the physical product.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency footprint with intercompany inventory movements.
• Hardware plus subscription commercial model, meaning inventory costing, WIP, COS, and deferred revenue all sit inside the same close cycle.
• Epicor ERP environment with active process improvement work underway.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

• Base salary range: $110,000 to $125,000 CAD.
• Full benefits package including healthcare.
• Hybrid schedule, approximately half a day per week in office.
• Bonus structure, RRSP match, and any additional variable compensation: to be confirmed by the hiring manager.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

This is a close orchestration role. Roughly half of the seat is owning month-end itself: the checklist, the journal entries, the reconciliations, the consolidation, and the conversation with the Controller about where things stand each day. The other half is split across reporting and analysis work, inventory and cost accounting, fixed assets, and a real systems and process improvement mandate inside the ERP. The hire works closely with Operations, Sales, FP&A, the Senior Cost Accountant, and the IT Systems Analyst, and is expected to bring structure to a process that has been carried at a more junior level until now.

Close ownership, the core mandate.

• Drive the month-end close from start to finish, across multiple legal entities and currencies.
• Deliver account reconciliations that are clean enough to land on the Controller's desk ready for sign-off.
• Handle service, deployment, and production cost allocation entries as part of the regular cycle.
• Run consolidation work including inter-company eliminations across three or more entities.

Reporting, analysis, and audit support.

• Produce internal financial statements and the analysis behind them that leadership relies on to make calls.
• Build out the audit package, working papers, and supporting schedules in partnership with the Controller.
• Work through non-routine transactions and assess how new accounting standards land in the business.
• Feed FP&A with what they need for annual planning and monthly forecasting, including balance sheet roll forwards.

Inventory, cost, and fixed assets.

• Own the accounting treatment for inventory and fixed assets, covering WIP, COS, depreciation continuity, and the reconciliations underneath them.
• Partner with the Senior Cost Accountant and Operations on the annual standard cost update and ongoing variance analysis.
• Coordinate physical inventory counts and tie the results back to the general ledger.

Systems, controls, and process.

• Work alongside the Controller and IT Systems Analyst on ERP process improvement, bringing the accounting lens and signing off on how changes are configured.
• Build out documentation that has not existed before: close procedures, reconciliation standards, journal entry policy.
• Set, monitor, and hold the line on financial controls so the business is audit-ready year round.
• Find the manual steps that should not still be manual and bring proposals forward with a business case attached.

What the first three months look like.

• Owning and tracking journal entries without being asked.
• Closing the books on schedule.
• Running real variance analysis, not just producing a report.
• Pushing back on the P&L rather than taking it at face value.

Qualifications:

• Canadian CPA designation
• 6 to 10 years of progressive accounting experience, including a stretch of 2+ years where you, personally, ran a full month-end close across a team. Not contributed to one, ran it.
• Multi-entity consolidation experience with inter-company eliminations across three or more entities in multiple currencies.
• Background in manufacturing, connected hardware, or hardware plus SaaS, where inventory costing, WIP, COS, and deferred revenue all sit in the same close cycle.
• Solid technical knowledge of IFRS and ASPE, and comfort with revenue recognition across hardware, subscription, and services streams.
• Advanced Excel and confidence in ERP-based GL, inventory, and consolidation modules. Epicor and BAQ-style reporting are a clear advantage.
• Knows how to balance speed and accuracy. Does not spend two weeks chasing something immaterial, and does not skip rigour to hit a date either.
• Proactive and structured. Tracks what is open, follows up without being chased, does not let blockers sit.
• Builds trust with the team through consistency, not authority.
• Comfortable working with incomplete information and imperfect systems, and willing to make them better over time.
• Open to using Claude and modern AI tooling as part of how the work gets done.

Why is This a Great Opportunity:

• Real ownership of the close. You take month-end off the Controller's desk and run it as yours. Not a contributor inside someone else's process.
• A clean canvas for process work. Because the seat was previously held at a far more junior level, there is genuine room to define what good looks like for documentation, reconciliation standards, and policy.
• Technical depth that builds careers. Inventory costing, WIP, COS, and deferred revenue all live in the same close. The accountants who come out of environments like this become the strongest Controllers in the country.
• Direct line to the Controller. Daily close status conversations, no middle layer, no translated priorities.
• Modern tooling sits on the desk. The team has access to Claude and the hiring manager actively wants someone who uses it. That is rare in accounting roles at this level.
• One of the lightest hybrid commitments in the Canadian market. Roughly half a day per week in office.
• Systems voice, not just systems consumer. You influence how the ERP works for accounting going forward, you do not just live with what it does today.