Athennian Looking for Controller (Remote) at Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Full Time

Athennian offers the most advanced platform for managing corporate structure records. The world’s largest law firms and corporations use our products to manage corporate records, governance, and workflows. Our vision is to establish Athennian as the go-to platform for all critical business workflows for corporate finance, legal, compliance, and tax teams and keep them transaction-ready.

We are looking to hire an experienced Controller to lead Finance and Operations in a rapidly growing start-up environment. The Controller will report directly to the Executive Management team and will be responsible for overseeing financial reporting and a variety of operational business activities that will help guide management in making key business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure an accurate and timely month-end financial close process, including consolidating the Company’s subsidiaries
• Reviews month-end workbooks to ensure all entries are posted and accounts reconciled
• Ensures accurate SaaS and professional services revenue recognition
• Manage and oversee the daily finance operations such as accounts payable, pay runs, treasury, employee expense reports, and accounts receivable
• Perform internal and external financial and KPI reporting (including ARR, NDR, etc.) to various stakeholders, including the executive team, external investors, etc
• Oversee and optimize all finance processes
• Analyzes the impact of business changes and decisions and recommends accounting policies and procedures to account for these changes and how those changes roll up into the forecast
• Prepares journal entries for more complex accounting, including stock-based compensation and transfer pricing
• Perform a monthly budget vs. actual variance analysis
• Prepares the financial statements in accordance with ASPE and completes related note disclosures
• Manages annual external financial review process
• Leads non-dilutive funding applications, claims, and reporting
• Manage the Company’s capitalization table, stock option register, and other corporate records
• Manage tax compliance in Canada and the US, including, but not limited to, sales taxes, income taxes, and withholding taxes
• Lead the SR&ED process with external providers and the engineering team
• Work on ad-hoc projects as the need arises

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience working in a SaaS company
• CPA, or equivalent, designation
• Solid understanding and application of IFRS
• Experience working with NetSuite and QuickBooks is an asset
• Strong attention to detail in the compilation and review of analytic data
• Self-motivated, ability to prioritize and multi-task in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work collaboratively across the organization where adaptability is key
• Able to manage staff across different functions

What We Provide

High growth and learning environment where you can take ownership of all aspects of product management and grow your career via key contributions at the right time. An opportunity to make a significant impact in the industry through bringing disruptive products to market. Competitive compensation package. Flexible work environment with hybrid of in-office and remote work.

Location

We have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in Canada. While some roles may require proximity to our Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver offices, roles based outside our office locations can be remote in Canada. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in Canada.

Our Culture

We believe incredible teams can solve any problem and we strive to be an inclusive workplace where ideas thrive. We are first and foremost an organization of people who are passionate about learning, building, and sharing software to transform the legal industry. Our team members thrive when they’re passionate about what they do. We strive to create an engaging environment with challenging tasks, foster meaningful relationships with colleagues, and encourage each other to become the best we can be. Whether you want to customize your workspace, share your latest hobby with the team, or broaden your horizons with a specific project, we have a wealth of opportunities to keep you growing and learning. We’re here to help you become the best version of yourself, all while having fun and connecting with coworkers.

Diligent Builder: Ability to design and build scalable systems

Focused Creative: Strategic mind with a solution first attitude and uses data to navigate the next steps

Ambitious Learner: Eager to take on new challenges and present innovative solutions

Champion Mindset: We set ambitious goals and hustle to make them happen

Benefits at Athennian

We offer competitive benefits and perks because we believe that happy people produce great results. We are always adding to this list based on employee feedback: generous vacation/sick/flex days, remote work options, flexible working hours, health/dental/vision/group life/gRRSP/LTD/AD&D/EFAP benefits , high growth environment, team-building, day-to-day variety (never a dull moment), MacBook for all employees, stock options, and a culture of transparency.