Meet Benevity
Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits. We have people working all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and more!
Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, the Financial Reporting Manager will play a key role in overseeing financial reporting and accounting processes for Benevity’s subsidiaries.
What you will do:
Leadership
- Develop, mentor, and empower a high-performing team of accountants, ensuring they are equipped to excel in their responsibilities and future growth initiatives
- Provide clear direction, set objectives, and measure team performance against key results, fostering accountability and professional development
- Act as a key member of the finance leadership team, contributing to strategic planning and cultivating an inclusive, positive finance team culture
Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Oversee the financial accounting and reporting function, including the preparation of subsidiary and consolidated annual financial statements
- Ensure the integrity, timeliness, completeness and accuracy of internal and external monthly, and annual reporting, with a priority on providing meaningful information that contributes to management, board and trustee decision making
- Coordinate the month-end close process
- Review and approve monthly technical and complex accounting journal entries
- Partner with external auditors, maintaining strong relationships and leading discussions on technical and complex accounting matters across global jurisdictions
- Drive process improvements to enhance scalability, accuracy, and efficiency of finance operations
- Accountable for accounting policies and procedures including internal controls over financial reporting
- Review and provide guidance on technical research, interpretation, and the impact of new accounting standards, under US or local GAAP, and oversee the implementation of these standards
- Review, and support, due diligence and business combination accounting for acquisitions as required while working with third-party valuation firms and lawyers
- Accountable for the integration of newly acquired or created entities within the finance processes and procedures and to lead the integration across the business related to these processes
- Partner with the tax team to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements in jurisdictions such as Canada, the US, Switzerland, Spain, and the UK
- Provide assistance to the General Accounting team’s oversight to transactional accounting functions, including GL, AR, AP and billings
- Provide leadership and guidance on financial systems
What you bring:
Leadership:
- 8+ years of experience leading, mentoring, and retaining high-performing financial accounting teams
- A leadership style that reflects Benevity’s values: humility, accountability, authenticity, adaptability, passion, innovation, and impact
- A growth mindset, with the ability to turn challenges into opportunities for learning and development—for yourself and your team
- A proactive, hands-on approach to problem-solving, with the ability to identify issues and implement solutions
- Proven ability to handle, and enable the team to handle, multiple complex, possibly competing, problems and business initiatives simultaneously while focusing on impact to the core business objectives
- Enable and influence the team and multiple functions to consistently meet expectations and deadlines
- Strong integrity to handle confidential and sensitive matters
Experience and Qualifications:
- Professionally designated accountant (CPA), in good standing, with undergraduate degree in accounting, finance or other related field
- 10+ of relevant post-designation experience, including working directly with external auditors and other key stakeholders
- Strong technical accounting skills related to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Experience in international reporting and reconciling back to US GAAP (preferred)
- Proven experience with financial and internal management reporting, including driving process efficiencies and value-added improvements
- Highly analytical with the ability to understand complex issues by breaking down the components, conceptualize solutions, and clearly communicate to varying audiences
- Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with the emphasis on timely, accurate and reliable data and reporting
- Strong communicator – verbal and written
- Strong working knowledge of advanced Excel and Microsoft Office suite skills; experience working with Google workspace (preferred)
- Experience in the technology sector (preferred)
Discover your purpose at work
We’re not employees, we’re Benevity-ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more …
Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co-workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.
If the idea of working on tech that helps people do good in the world lights you up ... If you want a career where you’re valued for who you are and challenged to see who you can become …
It’s time to join Benevity. We’re so excited to meet you.
Where we work
At Benevity, we have developed a Community First approach that we design our people's experience around with goals to build a strong community and culture, achieve stellar execution of our business goals and social mandate, and ensure Benevity-ites thrive. For those who live within a reasonable commuting distance to an office, we can split our time working in the office and from home to optimize the opportunities of both, with the requirement that we spend at least 50% of the time in the office.
Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword
Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily — from our well-supported employee resources groups to the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.
We know that diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions are what move our business and our people forward, so we're committed to creating a culture of belonging with equal opportunities for everyone to shine.
That starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.
Candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process are encouraged to reach out to [email protected].
