Accountant
Job description
An Accountant role at Canonical focused on month-end reporting, ledger ownership, year-end audit and statutory reporting, and helping prepare the business for a planned IPO. The position requires IFRS expertise and can be office based in London or remote in EMEA time zones.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA Time Zones
What you'll do
- Assist in the month end reporting process to deliver timely and accurate information
- Have full responsibility for a part of the ledger processes relevant to your strengths
- Assist with the year end audit process and statutory reporting
- Support the finance team's wider plans to prepare for an IPO
- Improve the efficiency of financial processes and procedures and monitor compliance
- Share knowledge between team members to ensure cover is available when needed
- Actively develop your own skills to ensure current knowledge of applicable standards and regulations
- Establish strong relationships with key colleagues outside the wider finance team
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record and subsequent career performance
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CPA, etc.)
- IFRS experience
- NetSuite or similar enterprise grade systems experience
- Willingness to travel up to four times per year
Nice to have
- Experience at a large public accounting firm, or public multinational corporate accounting department preferred
Your team
Finance team
A growing Finance team preparing the business for public market scrutiny through a planned IPO.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, an open source platform used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Publishes Ubuntu
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background