Director of Corporate Accounting, Hootsuite
CA$96.1-134.7k
NetSuite
Expert level
Remote in Canada
Social media management tool
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Social media management tool
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsMarketingContentAnalyticsSaaSSocial Media
Be an early applicant
CA$96.1-134.7k
NetSuite
Expert level
Remote in Canada
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsMarketingContentAnalyticsSaaSSocial Media
Company mission
To empower organizations to build trust and deepen relationships through the power of social.
Role
Who you are
- CPA designation
- Advanced level of progressive accounting experience, including experience in financial reporting and consolidation or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience leading, strategizing, and driving innovative financial initiatives, achieving organizational alignment and driving significant transformative change
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex US GAAP and IFRS accounting issues, especially in areas such as revenue recognition, equity-based compensation, mergers and acquisitions, consolidation and international accounting
- Experience in overseeing financial risks, architecting, and executing risk mitigation strategies
- A proven record of establishing scalable processes and procedures, adeptly navigating and fostering growth during rapid expansion phases
- 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
- Creativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generates original and imaginative ideas, products, or solutions
- Decision Making: consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
- Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
- 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
- Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
- Process/Project Management: skilled at figuring out and managing the processes and timelines necessary to get work accomplished
- Inclusive Leadership: Builds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals
- Play to Win: Capably delivers results through others, is good at establishing clear direction, helping others achieve their best work
- Long Range Planning: Identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; Builds an integrated plan for course of action to accomplish this vision
- Enablement: Challenges and supports others to create results but also develop new capabilities. Successfully develops the capacity and capability of team and individuals on the team
- Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked
- Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t
- Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity
- Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information
- Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result
- Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively
- Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals
- Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes
- Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Director, Corporate Accounting to lead the financial reporting and consolidation functions within the Controllership team. Reporting to VP, Finance, you’ll be working on optimizing financial processes, driving process improvement, and providing strategic direction and guidance, leading a diverse and engaged team.
- You will be instrumental in shaping the financial infrastructure and accounting systems to support continued growth and long-term strategic goals
- In this leadership role, you will manage accounting operations, financial reporting, investor relations, accounting infrastructure and business systems, financial processes, and compliance.
- Your leadership will drive the adoption of best practices, optimize financial processes, and ensure adherence to accounting standards and regulations. You will collaborate closely with the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, and other departments to influence key financial decisions and support the company’s growth trajectory.
- This is a remote-first role and is open to applicants located within provinces/states where we comply with our legal hiring entities. In this role, you will report to the Vice President, Finance
- Provide leadership and direction to a global team of finance professionals and oversee the preparation, review and consolidation of financial statements, monthly reporting package and statutory reports for global operations
- Ensure financial reports comply with US GAAP, IFRS, and company accounting policies, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial data
- Supervise the timely preparation of financial statements, including consolidations, eliminations, and statutory financial statements for international subsidiaries
- Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors, managing audit planning, execution, and resolution of key audit issues
- Ensure quality, timely completion of consolidated and statutory audits and serve as the liaison for audit-related services, including negotiation of fees and communication with auditors
- Optimize financial systems (particularly NetSuite) and internal processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability as the company grows
- Partner with senior leaders to drive M&A and integration projects to establish consistent and standardized accounting policies, processes and systems
- Establish and implement internal control procedures to ensure the reliability and integrity of financial and operational data, safeguarding assets and ensuring regulatory compliance
- Oversee the preparation and periodic updates of accounting policies, ensuring alignment with current regulations and best practices
- Drive continuous improvement in all global financial processes to improve accuracy, timeliness and relevance of financial reporting
- Collaborate with Tax and Treasury to ensure accurate financial reporting, efficient processes and timely compliance
- Oversee the Investor Relations function ensuring regular quarterly and annual reporting requirements are met
- Build a high performing team. Guide and coach team members by establishing clear objectives, mentoring, providing consistent feedback, creating professional advancement opportunities, and fostering a culture that emphasizes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)
- Act as a key thought partner to the VP of Finance and Hootsuite's senior finance leadership, overseeing and innovating accounting and finance operations within a dynamic environment, while leading and orchestrating collaboration with key stakeholders to drive transformative change projects that streamline and standardize Enterprise-wide financial processes, enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness
Our take
Hootsuite is a leading social media management platform that’s been around since the early days of this now-ballooning online sector. With over 18 million customers, and used by over four fifths of the Fortune 1000, this giant is hugely competitive in the space.
Thought Hootsuite's plans for an IPO didn't survive the tough economic conditions of 2022 (like many of its peers, the company engaged in several rounds of layoffs), it has since reworked its leadership team to get back on course as the economy recovers.
Just like its acquisition of Sparkcentral saw the company expand into customer service, its more recent purchase of Talkwalker sees it integrate AI into its platform. The combined offering will supply businesses with a social media performance engine to turn insights into action, all fuelled by artificial intelligence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
Top investors
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2014
$60m
SERIES D
Aug 2013
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $246.9m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services
- A company-wide Wellness Week between July 5 to 12 where we can all “unplug” together
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month)
- Gym Discount
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Maternity Leave
- PTO (Vacation / Personal Days) - 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary
- Paternity Leave
- Sick Time (for individual employee and family members)
- Bereavement Leave
- Business Travel Insurance
- Company Phones
- Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries)
- Immigration Assistance
- Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month)
- Remote Work
- 401k
- Employee Discount
- Pet Friendly Workplace
- RRSP Matching
- Volunteer Time Off
Company HQ
South Main, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Ryan Holmes
(Founder & Board Member)Previously founded interactive agency Invoke Media, served on the Board of Directors for Ariztia, and founded pre-seed fund LOI Venture.
Irina Novoselsky
(CEO)Previously Board Member at Lemonade and World Business Chicago, CEO at CareerBuilder and President at Novitex Enterprise Solutions.
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