Senior Manager, Accounting
Your career is an investment that grows over time!
Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3 million users who trust us with more than $20 billion in assets.
Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.
Reporting to the Director, Financial Accounting, the Senior Manager will be joining a team of high performing accounting professionals and have the opportunity to hone their IFRS expertise while leading a small team.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Support the annual, quarterly and monthly financial reporting processes - reviewing and assisting with the preparation of financial statements and associated note disclosures under IFRS;
- Take responsibility for the review and accuracy of financial reporting packages for the Company’s internal and external stakeholders;
- Manage technical accounting research and draft and review position papers for new, complex transactions;
- Oversee the accounting of the stock-based compensation plans and administration of the corporate cap table;
- Be responsible for the year-end audit process and deliverables and management of relationship with the external auditors;
- Ensure the accuracy of financial entries, documents and reports;
- Assist in managing and drafting accounting policies;
- Lead a high performing team while also working on some cool projects including process improvement, controls documentation, implementing new technologies to help us improve our efficiencies;
- Own your career growth path. Tell us what else you would like to accomplish and we will work together to make it happen.
Skills we're looking for:
- Financial accounting experience including CPA, CA designation with public accounting experience;
- Strong technical understanding of IFRS required, US GAAP nice to have;
- Ambitious and a self-starter who thrives in a fast paced, growing and dynamic environment;
- Natural curiosity: if something seems off, you want to figure out what’s going on;
- Passion for the continuous improvement of processes; actively looks for efficiencies;
- Excellent verbal and written communicator and able to convey complex ideas succinctly;
- Loves numbers, organized, and strong Excel skills;
- Attention to detail and ability to work with autonomy;
- Previous experience managing a team is considered an asset;
- Knowledge of fintech, tech and/or financial services industries is nice to have.
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive Salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
📚 Up to $1500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led employee resource groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS) Employee Resource Groups
💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
We’re a remote-first team, with over 1000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
DEI Statement
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement
Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.