Financial Controller (18-Month Mat Leave Contract)
Clariti
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Read more about Us, Our People, and Our Culture here.
What do we do?
We empower governments to deliver exceptional citizen experiences
Clariti’s government software helps North America’s largest and fastest growing communities deliver exceptional community development, permitting, and licensing experiences online. Every day, our solutions help governments approve more permits for new homes, business licenses for entrepreneurs, and professional licenses for essential workers.
As of 2023, following Clariti’s acquisition of Camino Technologies, a leading permitting and licensing software company serving small and mid-sized governments, our software is used by over 150 million people each day.
If you’re interested in learning more about our company culture, and joining our team of relentless builders, you can check out more about our team here.
What will you work on?
Reporting to the VP, Finance, in a fully remote role, the Financial Controller will lead all aspects of financial accounting including receivables, payables, payroll, tax, and audit. Manage the month-end close process, cash management, and support relationships with bankers and other service providers. Will manage the Senior Accountant role as part of the finance team.
This is a maternity leave fixed-term role, with the possibility of extension or permanent position.
As a Financial Controller at Clariti, you’ll get to :
- Ensure accurate completion of month and year-end close processes and generation of financial statements.
- Oversee or prepare all financial reports, such as income statement, statement of cash flows.
- Update and monitor KPI worksheets.
- Support preparation of the annual budget.
- Prepare financial analysis and reports for external bankers.
- Maintain internal controls for client invoices, revenue recognition and other accounting functions.
- Manage payroll cycles.
- Identify cost savings opportunities and efficiencies.
- Ensure tax filings and government remittances are completed and filed.
- Oversee daily operations of the finance team and manage direct report, ensuring opportunities for continued growth and learning.
- Liaise with the various department leaders including VP Finance on accounting issues as necessary.
What you bring to the team?
- Knowledge and understanding of financial reporting requirements for businesses with Canadian and US activities.
- Experience leading a month-end close process and preparing reports for bankers.
- Leadership skills and experience coaching/mentoring senior accounting staff.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships with internal leaders and external clients.
- Attention to detail and presentation of information.
- Knowledge of accounting in a SaaS software business is a strong asset.
- Proficiency in accounting software systems and advanced excel knowledge; experience using Sage Intacct (ERP) is an asset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
- Professional certification or senior CPA student.
- 2-4 years of experience in a Controller role
Why join Clariti?
Our Commitment to ED&I
At Clariti, we’re on a continuous learning journey as it relates to Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion. We know that diversity is a strength, and recognize that the unique backgrounds across our team help us make better decisions, result in more creative solutions, and ultimately lead us to stronger paths of success. We’re working to create a workplace and team that is as diverse as the communities we serve, and we aim to provide an environment that allows every person to bring their whole and authentic self to work every day. Curious how we’ve been working on this? Reach out to our People & Talent team and we’d be happy to share more details on the workshops, policies, and processes that we have both in place today, and in the works for the future.
We are inspired by the unique contributions and insights of our team members, and are invested in continuously improving our employees’ experiences as we grow. We pride ourselves on supporting our team to show up every day being the best they can be, and in addition to our collaborative and people-focused environment, we offer our team:
- 100% ‘remote-first’ Work Environment - our people are our greatest asset, and everyone requires a different environment to do their best work. To maintain flexibility in our workstyles and locations, our team works remotely - currently across Canada and the United States
- Flexible Work Hours - everyone on the team works a typical 8-hour workday, however as we span various timezones, we have defined core hours for collaboration from 9am-2pm (PST). Outside of that window, we recognize that everyone has busy and diverse lives, so we encourage our team to be flexible in their schedules for work based on their personal needs and preferences
- Competitive Total Compensation - we recognize the valuable contributions and hard work of our team, and reward them for it!
- Personal Time Off (PTO) - we recognize the need for recreation, and to ensure that all employees are taking adequate rest, we offer our team 29 days of paid time-off (broken down as 3 weeks of vacation + 8 flex days + 2 holiday observance days + 4 team appreciation days)
- Comprehensive Extended Benefits package - including coverage for medical, dental and vision - starting on day one!
- $500 Annual Wellness Spending Account - (prorated based on start date) for team members' personal health and wellbeing
- An Annual Professional Development budget, and high potential for growth and continuous learning
- Team Building Initiatives - in partnership with leadership and our People & Talent team, we have a culture committee who regularly host events and activities to support team socials and engagement
- Onboarding & Quarterly WFH budget - we provide each of our team members with $300 to get started, and $150 per quarter (adjusted based on CAN or US location) to spend towards home office expenses, co-working memberships, or anything they need to make their personal work space comfortable
- Tech Tools and Stack - we provide the team with a Mac (or PC where necessary), and for regular collaboration and day-to-day work management, we use Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, Confluence/Jira, Lattice, Rippling and Greenhouse
Background checks - Because our customers trust us with sensitive information, we require all successful candidates to undergo comprehensive background checks before joining our team. We focus strictly on global sanctions and criminal offences that are directly relevant to employment at Clariti, and follow all applicable privacy and human rights legislation. Questions? Ask us - we're here to help.
Don’t meet all the requirements but still interested in applying for an opportunity? We’re all on a journey to learn constantly and have areas to grow in and develop. If you bring some of the above skills to the table and are still developing in others, please apply with us anyway! Learning and experience isn’t a one-way path, if you believe you have the background needed to make an impact in this role, we’d love to hear from you.