Assistant Controller

About AlayaCare:

At AlayaCare, we’re revolutionizing the way that home healthcare is delivered. Our leading cloud-based software allows our customers around the world to manage their employees, scheduling, billing, and enable better delivery of care. We're a fast-growing SaaS company with a team of 550+ team members across Canada, US, Australia, and Brazil. We aim to be the world leader in home healthcare software solutions as we empower providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients and clients. We pride ourselves on our open and transparent culture, our bias for action, and being committed to a workplace where we can be ourselves.    

About the role: 

Reporting to the Global Corporate Controller, the Assistant Controller will play a crucial role in ensuring a timely period-end close and accurate financial reporting, as well as assisting with day-to-day business operations. This role is instrumental in ensuring the accuracy of financial documents, compliance with regulations, and the effectiveness of internal controls.

A day in the life:   

• Responsible for the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing process for all matters in North America (NA).
• Maintain and reconcile NA general ledger accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies to ensure accurate recording of financial transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance with IFRS.
• Manage and review the work of the accounts payable team, ensuring the accurate and timely processing of invoices, payments and accruals, adherence to company financial policies and effective vendor relationship management.
• Maintain and implement internal controls. Highlight shortcomings and suggests improvements in current processes, systems, and procedures.
• Support annual year-end audit and other ad-hoc external audits.
• Collaborate and support the FP&A team with monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting.
• Perform initial review of the income tax returns, prepare SRED and other tax credit claims.
• Prepare timely and accurate quarterly and annual financial statements in compliance with IFRS.
• Prepare, reconcile, and ensure timely payment of sales taxes.
• Perform other accounting duties and support finance team in Australia as required; provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
• Support the Global Corporate Controller with ad-hoc projects as needed.

What you bring to the team:  

• 3+ years of relevant experience in financial audit or corporate accounting roles.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS.
• Prior experience or demonstrated ability to lead, coach and mentor teams.
• Prior experience assessing, adopting and optimizing new technology.
• Advanced analytical skills, attention to detail, and strong written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced organizational skills to keep track of multiple tasks and priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Advanced interpersonal and collaboration skills to build and maintain strong working relationships within North American and Australian teams.
• High energy, flexible, and has a willingness to take initiative.
• Highly proactive
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• High level of comfort working independently on a variety of tasks in a fast-changing environment
• SaaS experience is an asset.
• Knowledge of NetSuite is an asset
• Audit firm experience is an asset.
• Knowledge of US & Canadian tax regulations is an asset.

Location and travel requirements:

AlayaCare supports a flexible hybrid working model, expecting that our employees have a regular in-office presence at their closest office location while offering flexibility for some remote work. Our team encourages in-person collaboration and with this, the preferred candidate location for this position would be within the Greater Montreal Area.

What Makes AlayaCare a Great Place to Work:

• Our products have a positive impact on the lives of countless care workers and care recipients
• Our company has been recognized by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and as a recipient of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50TM program award for our rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation
• Equity in a well-funded, high-growth company
• Hybrid working models with beautiful and creative office spaces to enjoy in prime locations
• Virtual and onsite social events for employees centered around collaboration, learning, and fun, including DEIBA committee events, volunteer events, fireside chats, catered team lunches, celebrations, and team building activities
• Comprehensive group benefits program, including telemedicine
• Employee expense program for health, wellness, lifestyle, professional development and productivity-related expenses
• Parental leave top-up program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Company Wellness Day program for extra time to unwind
• Paid Volunteer Time off Program
• Career growth and learning and development opportunities
• An entrepreneurial culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation
• Access to our employee perk program for discounts at various participating vendors

If this sounds like the perfect job for you, apply today. As well as joining a great culture and a market-leading company, you will be part of a team making a positive difference in the post-acute care market. If this isn’t the job for you, you may know someone who is a perfect fit. Please feel free to share this opportunity. 

If you want to explore AlayaCare further, please visit our website www.alayacare.com. 

Better outcomes, better belonging  

Our team members are unique—like our products and the customer groups that we service. AlayaCare employees bring different strengths, perspectives, and experiences to their roles and to our products that enable better care. We are committed to offering a people-centric culture where all employees belong and feel heard.       

Having a pulse on our employee feedback is important to us as we aim to continuously evolve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility within AlayaCare's policies, total rewards offerings, discussions, learning & development programs, and community partnerships. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.   

If you require accommodation as part of the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected]. Please note, we do not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes. 

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