Senior Accountant

Quietly is an award-winning, full-service content marketing agency, working across the entire lifecycle – from discovery and strategy to production and distribution. Quietly partners with category leaders such as Adobe, Dell Technologies, Goldman Sachs, Herschel, MEC, Sotheby’s International Realty, PwC, and Slack to understand how content drives their business, devising strategies, and executing along the way. Quietly has also developed its own Custom Data technology, as well as it’s stand alone product: Insights.

It's exciting times at Quietly as our growth is resulting in us looking to bring on a full time, inhouse, Senior Accountant. This is a great opportunity for someone to build on our excellent Finance foundation and help shape it’s future. In addition to approaching challenges strategically, this role will be hands-on in the day to day accounting work. This role will be reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer with the opportunity to work with our entire leadership team.

You are looking for the next big challenge, and like us, you have no small plans.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Work closely with our banking and finance partners to grow and maximize those relationships
• Build financial processes and policies and ensure they are being adhered to
• Contribute to and support ongoing financial systems/tools for development and analysis, including dashboards and automation
• Prepare and analyze monthly/quarterly/annual financial statements and management reports
• Develop budgets and provide variance analysis and forecasts
• Maintain financial models, including scenario planning and forecasting
• Prepare all invoices and manage AR, deposits, and reconciliation in our accounting software, Xero
• Maintain overall responsibility of accounts payable, including contractor payments and invoicing
• Process our bi-monthly payroll
• Reconcile all corporate banking transactions
• Respond to vendor or client queries and requests
• Develop and implement key working spreadsheets
• Record asset leases and purchases and applicable depreciation and amortization schedules
• Prepare materials for our accountants to file our annual corporate tax filings
• Record and reconcile Goods and Services Tax (GST) entries
• Other duties as required

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 5 years of relevant work experience
• Professional accounting designation
• Advanced technical skills and experience with Xero
• Advanced technical skills and experience with Google Sheets or Excel
• A proven track record of being detail oriented, organized, and able to meet deadlines
• A self-motivated and results-driven attitude; you prefer to work in a fast-paced growing organization
• Experience processing payroll
• Very strong written and interpersonal communication skills

Our headquarters are located in an incredible converted two-storey live-work space with a gorgeous rooftop patio in the heart of historic Gastown. The building and first floor of our unit are accessible spaces. We’re also open to folks working remotely within North American time zones.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that women and other marginalized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the job posting. As a company committed to diversity and inclusion, if you don't check every box but do feel well suited for this role we strongly encourage you to apply. Diversity and inclusion at our company means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths.

We also welcome qualified candidates who face barriers to the workforce to apply. If you require support or accommodations throughout the selection process and/or while working at Quietly, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Head of People & Culture, Parker Bailey, at [email protected].