Lead Accountant at OpenText in Richmond Hill, Ontario, CAN, L4B 4N8

Job description

• OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.
• AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.
• At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.
• OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.
• The Lead Accountant, Corporate Accounting will work with the corporate accounting function and take a key role in various corporate accounting, consolidation, internal reporting, and analysis functions. This role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive process improvements, and contribute to the overall success of the company.

Responsibilities

• Perform analytical review of period end financial results including balance sheet and income statement fluctuations and provide detailed narratives that help support business decisions.
• Prepare month close entries and account reconciliations and promote best practices with Accounting Services to ensure proper accounting and controls are in place.
• Research and outline accounting standard changes and provide reports on findings for future accounting pronouncements as applicable including recommended next steps.
• Provide support and guidance to other finance teams and the business as required to address financial matters and questions as applicable. This includes but is not limited to External Reporting, Tax, Corporate Finance, Legal Entity Controllership, Treasury, and Internal Audit.
• Liaison with external auditors during the annual audit and quarterly reviews as required.
• Support the legal entity rationalization process.
• Develop custom reports and provide internal reporting to the finance leadership team using various internal systems and automated tools, including SAP, BPC BW, NetSuite, and OneStream.
• Projects include but are not limited to system automation, process improvements around efficiency and effectiveness of current processes, acquisition integration activities, and internal reporting development.
• Helping manage project milestones and providing project leaders with timely status report.

Requirements

• 2 to 4 years of related finance and accounting experience within either the software, high-tech industries, or public accounting.
• Completion of a degree in Accounting, Commerce, Business or Finance or a related discipline – or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent
• CPA designation (or equivalent) required.
• Prior “Big 4” firm experience is preferred.
• Strong collaboration and organizational skills.
• Must be detail oriented with an analytical mindset.
• Self-motivated with a strong desire to take initiative and learn.
• Capable of working with minimal supervision, multi-tasking to establish priorities, and completing objectives without supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment
• An analytical mindset
• Effective written, oral, presentation and interpersonal skills to articulate and present advice, options and recommendations to senior management, executives, internal and external stakeholders.
• U.S. GAAP experience is preferred
• Experience with Blackline, SAP, Netsuite and OneStream is preferred

Skills

Required

• An analytical mindset

Preferred

• U.S. GAAP experience is preferred

Benefits

• Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.
• Salary Range: $81,600-$122,400 Depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.