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Job Description
The Systems Controls Accountant at Canonical is responsible for leading the configuration, automation, and management of financial systems like NetSuite and Salesforce, ensuring accurate revenue recognition, data governance, and process improvements to support fast and transparent financial reporting in a high-growth technology environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex NetSuite configuration, workflows, customization, and integration
- Implement best practices for data governance, security, and compliance within NetSuite and connected systems
- Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and KPIs to monitor business performance
- Coordinate system maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting to ensure system reliability
- Provide training and support to end-users to improve proficiency with NetSuite
- Oversee Sandbox accounts for development and testing, ensuring smooth deployment of customizations
- Stay updated on new NetSuite features and assess their impact on business processes
- Drive process and systems improvements for end-to-end automation of financial workflows
- Research and write accounting memos on relevant policy matters
- Act as the primary liaison with external auditors regarding financial systems and controls
Requirements
- A professionally qualified accounting leader with expertise in NetSuite to build scalable processes, automated through correct and auditable implementations in NetSuite, Salesforce and other connected business systems.
- Experience working across teams including product management, legal, FP A, sales operations and commercial business systems to ensure that the accounting and revenue recognition treatment of contracts and products is straightforward and correct, with a very high level of automation.
- Proficiency in leading complex NetSuite configuration, workflows, customization, and integration.
- Ability to implement best practices for data governance, security, and compliance within NetSuite and connected systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency in script understanding and problem resolution related to NetSuite.
- Experience developing and maintaining reports, dashboards, and KPIs to provide insights into business performance.
- Experience coordinating regular system maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting to ensure optimal performance and reliability of NetSuite and connected systems.
- Ability to provide training and support to end-users to enhance their efficiency and proficiency with NetSuite.
- Experience overseeing Sandbox accounts for development and testing, ensuring seamless deployment of customizations and updates to the production environment.
- Ability to stay updated on new NetSuite features and functionalities, assessing their potential impact on business processes.
- Experience driving process and systems improvements across teams for end-to-end automation of the full financial life cycle.
- Ability to incorporate industry best practices and emerging technology to improve reporting speed and accuracy.
- Experience mentoring and aiding in developing the wider team of accounting and finance professionals.
- Experience developing and maintaining effective internal controls over revenue transactions and reporting.
- Ability to research and write accounting memos on relevant policy matters.
- Experience acting as the primary liaison with external auditors in related matters.
- An undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance, or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path.
- CPA, CA or equivalent qualification with excellent technical accounting skills and IFRS experience.
- A detailed understanding of IFRS and relevant rules related to SaaS and services.
- Leadership or management responsibility experience.
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Experience of software licensing, subscription, and services revenue accounting and operations.
- Experience driving and scaling accounting processes in a high-growth environment.
- Experience with ERP, Rev Rec, CRM, CPQ and other relevant software categories, with NetSuite and Salesforce preferred.
- Experience in a multi-country, multi-currency operations and tax environment.
- Professional written and spoken English skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation.
- Result-oriented mindset with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.
Benefits & Perks
Annual performance-driven bonus or commission
Additional benefits reflecting company values and local needs
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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