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Plooto is a fast-growing payments SaaS platform helping businesses automate and streamline their payment operations. The Finance team maintains rigorous financial integrity across multiple legal entities, currencies, and compliance frameworks in a regulated payments business.
You will join the Finance team as a Senior Accountant, playing a key role in supporting month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, payroll, audits, and process optimization. This role is ideal for someone with strong financial accounting fundamentals, audit experience, and a continuous improvement mindset who enjoys building scalable, efficient processes in a fast-moving environment.
Key responsibilities include:
**Financial Reporting & Entity Management:**
- Own core month-end and year-end close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting
- Manage the full-cycle accounts payable (AP) process, including vendor invoice coding, approvals, and payment runs
- Prepare and review revenue recognition entries, including treatment of deferred revenue
- Maintain and reconcile prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and other balance sheet schedules, ensuring accurate amortization/depreciation and supporting documentation
- Help maintain rigorous separation of trust (client funds) and operating accounts in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policy
- Support financial exposure reporting related to payment losses, chargebacks, and disputes; collaborate with Risk and Operations to quantify and track losses
- Monitor foreign exchange exposure across multi-currency entities and support hedging documentation
**Compliance, Controls & Audit:**
- Design and help strengthen the internal controls framework across accounting processes, with particular attention to segregation of duties and payment fund safeguarding
- Support the year-end audit, SR&ED submission, tax filings, and other regulatory reporting obligations
- Help ensure ASPE/IFRS compliance and assist in keeping accounting policies up to date for all entities
- Proactively flag control gaps and support remediation efforts before they become audit findings
- Support North American payroll operations, including payroll accounting, reconciliations, and compliance considerations
**Automation & Process Efficiency:**
- Support the accounting tech stack; help evaluate and optimize tools (Xero, Plooto, and beyond) to eliminate manual effort and increase accuracy
- Partner with Business Intelligence and Engineering to help automate reconciliations, reporting, and close processes
- Support the FinOps best-practices group, helping govern and optimize variable usage-based costs such as cloud and infrastructure spend
**Stakeholder Management:**
- Partner with FP&A on internal and investor reporting, ensuring accounting outputs are investor-ready
- Act as a point of contact for external auditors, tax advisors, banking partners, and payment processors as needed
**Requirements:**
- 3+ years of accounting experience
- CPA designation or actively pursuing CPA completion
- Strong technical accounting knowledge with a focus on financial accounting and audit support
- Strong knowledge of ASPE and IFRS; experience in tech or payments SaaS strongly preferred
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Demonstrated interest in process improvement, automation, and scalable finance operations
- Comfort working in evolving, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Natural problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Interest in AI, automation tools, or modern finance technology considered an asset
