Accounting manager

About Persona

At Persona, we're building the first universal and comprehensive identity infrastructure to help businesses of all sizes better serve and protect their customers identities. Our identity platform enables businesses to securely collect and manage their customers' personal information, to verify that their customers' are who they say they are, to analyze and detect fraud and abuse, and to pull sensitive reports about their customers in a privacy-centric way. In a world where consumer behaviours are changing and privacy and identity are taking on a new meaning, we want to help businesses find their superpowers and do it while putting their customers, the people, first.

About the role

We are looking for our first Accountant to help create and scale our internal accounting processes. This role is to play an integral part in all aspects of accounting operations with opportunities to work on various projects as we scale. The ideal candidate will be someone who can roll up their sleeves to work on different areas of the month-end close and help implement systems that can scale and improve upon processes. The Accountant will have strong decision-making skills, ability to be flexible as business needs change and the capacity to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end journal entries, reconciliations and supporting schedules (payroll, cash, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, allocations)
• Prepare and review month-end close and monthly financial reports; provide insights and analysis
• Assist in the preparation of GAAP financial statements, including document preparation, data analysis, validation and reconciliation processes
• Work with cross functional teams to identify and solve problems or areas for improvement in our processes
• Own accounts payable process to ensure proper and consistent coding and timely payments for vendors and employee expenses
• Work alongside the operations team on the invoice creation to account receivable process
• Assist with quarterly and annual income tax requests. File all sales tax, property tax, payroll tax and other compliance items
• Perform annual 1099 filings
• Maintain a high level of internal controls for the company and make recommendations for improvement.
• Proactively identify issues and areas for improvement within the close process and implement process improvements.
• Perform other special projects and analyses as directed by management.

Requirements

• 6+ years of accounting experience
• CPA or equivalent education (Bachelor of Accounting or Finance)
• You're a self starter who is excited to be a founding member of the Persona finance team
• You're strong quantitatively (an Excel master), but you're also a good communicator
• You're always looking for ways to improve how we operate, through new processes, tools or education
• Have excellent organizational skills and an eye for detail
  • Excellent self-initiated project management and thorough execution
  • Process-oriented
• Quick and relentless learner that's not afraid to dive into complex projects that require critical thinking
• Able to work cross-functionally, manage complex projects autonomously, and drive them forward while keeping stakeholders in the loop
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects and adhere to deadlines AND collaboratively with multiple individuals to get the job done
• Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Hungry to learn and grow and define the culture of a company

Bonus points

• Experience working in a Big 4 or experience as an auditor
• Have worked in a SaaS start up
• Experience working on Quickbooks