Accounting Manager
Fullscript
- Ottawa, Canada
- Posted
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Skills
Required
- accounting / finance system implementation / integration
- automation
- reconciliations
- ERP
- AI
- full-cycle accounting
- ledger
- P&L
- GL
- finance workflows
Preferred
- Big Four audit
- NetSuite
- SPS
- EDI
- ERP and
- transaction integration
- ChatGPT
- P2P
Join our team as an Accounting Manager, where you'll lead our Accounts Payable team and drive business transformation through process improvement and automation. You'll focus on the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process, ensuring accurate financial reporting and audit compliance. This role offers a flexible work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and a commitment to sustainability.
Lead and develop the Accounts Payable team, setting clear priorities and supporting accurate, timely processing, payments, and reconciliations.
About Fullscript
People management experience, including coaching, prioritizing work, and helping a team adopt new systems and processes
Responsibilities
- Map existing accounting and P2P workflows to identify repetitive tasks, manual handoffs, bottlenecks, and recurring errors, and build and deliver an automation roadmap.
- Own AI, automation, and process improvement projects from discovery and requirements through solution design, implementation, testing, training, and adoption.
- Practical knowledge of P2P processes, including vendor invoices, purchase orders, approvals, matching, payments, and reconciliations
- A broad accounting background that allows you to assess how changes in AP and purchasing affect expense recognition, account balances, controls, and financial reporting
- Inventory accounting knowledge, including how purchasing, receiving, inventory balances, and related expenses flow through the financial statements
Requirements
- Experience as an Accounting Manager, with a strong foundation in full-cycle accounting, the general ledger, reconciliations, period-end close, audit requirements, and the P&L
- Experience delivering an accounting or finance system implementation, integration, or significant workflow redesign, with clear ownership of the outcome
- Strong ERP knowledge and an understanding of how transactions move between operational systems and the GL
- Clear communication skills and the ability to turn accounting requirements into practical solutions with business and technical partners
- Demonstrated experience implementing AI and automation in accounting or finance workflows. You’ve taken projects from identifying an opportunity through implementation, testing, adoption, and measuring results
- The initiative to take a broad objective, investigate the problem, bring the right people together, and deliver improvements with minimal direction
- Private industry accounting experience following public practice
- Experience in wholesale, distribution, manufacturing, retail, CPG, or another business where purchasing and physical inventory are central to operations
Preferred
- A CPA designation and Big Four audit experience, both highly preferred
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite, SPS Commerce EDI, or similar ERP and transaction integration tools
- Practical experience applying tools such as ChatGPT or Claude to accounting work, supported by examples of how you validated outputs and improved a process
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