Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Plooto is a fast-growing payments SaaS platform helping businesses automate and streamline their payment operations. They are seeking a highly technical and detail-oriented Accounting Manager to support month-end close, financial reporting, payroll, audits, and process optimization across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and support core month-end and year-end accounting activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting
- Oversee accounting across all legal entities, ensuring accurate consolidation and intercompany eliminations
- Maintain rigorous separation of trust (client funds) and operating accounts in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policy
- Own financial exposure reporting related to payment losses, chargebacks, and disputes; collaborate with Risk and Operations to quantify, provision for, and minimize losses
- Manage foreign exchange exposure across multi-currency entities and ensure proper hedging documentation
- Design and enforce internal controls framework across all accounting processes, with particular attention to segregation of duties and payment fund safeguarding
- Lead the year-end audit, SRED submission, tax filings, and all regulatory reporting obligations
- Ensure ASPE/IFRS compliance and maintain up-to-date accounting policies for all entities
- Proactively identify control gaps and implement remediation plans before they become audit findings
- Oversee and support North American payroll operations, including payroll accounting, reconciliations, and compliance considerations
- Oversee AP-related processes and controls, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and strong reconciliation practices
- Own the accounting tech stack; evaluate, implement, and optimize tools (Xero, Plooto, and beyond) to eliminate manual effort and increase accuracy
- Partner with Business Intelligence and Engineering to automate reconciliations, reporting, and close processes
- Establish and maintain a continuous-improvement roadmap for the accounting function, tracking efficiency gains and reporting outcomes to leadership
- Lead the FinOps best-practices group, working with team leads to govern and optimize variable usage-based costs such as cloud and infrastructure spend
- Partner closely with FP&A on internal and investor reporting, ensuring accounting outputs are investor-ready
- Serve as the primary accounting point of contact for external auditors, tax advisors, banking partners, and payment processors
- Provide clear and timely financial reporting to the Accounting Director and executive team
Skills
- 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
- Proficiency with Xero, Plooto, and BI/analytics tools; advanced Excel skills
- 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
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- A natural problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience in tech or payments SaaS strongly preferred
- Interest in AI, automation tools, or modern finance technology considered an asset
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