accountant

Description

As a Staff Accountant, you will join our finance team, reporting to the CFO, and manage the day-to-day accounting for a global, venture-backed manufacturer. You will work across the full accounting cycle, from daily transactions and multi-currency reconciliations to month-end close and the preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements. The role calls for accuracy, reliability on deadlines, and the flexibility to work across all areas of a growing company's finance function. You are detail-oriented, self-motivated, and interested in working closely with the operations side of the business.

Location and Work Model

This role is based on-site at our Calgary headquarters and manufacturing facility, where you'll work alongside the finance team and close to the production and operations teams you support.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle accounts payable and accounts receivable, including vendor management, customer invoicing, and collections.
• Complete month-end close on schedule, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage multi-currency transactions and reconciliations across our global customer and vendor base.
• Maintain inventory and manufacturing cost accounting in collaboration with our production and operations teams.
• Support the preparation of quarterly internal and annual financial statements, including year-end reviews and audit support.
• Process payroll inputs, employee expense reports, and related remittances accurately and on time.
• Support GST/HST and cross-border sales tax compliance and filings.
• Assist with documentation for government grant and SR&ED claims and related audits.
• Work with sales, operations, and leadership to resolve billing, costing, and reporting questions.
• Document accounting processes and internal controls, and improve them as the company grows.
• Stay current on accounting standards and best practices.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• CPA designation, or active enrolment in the CPA program, strongly preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of full-cycle accounting experience.

Requirements:

• Strong Excel skills and experience working with accounting and ERP systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey complex matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Considered an asset:

• Experience with multi-currency accounting or inventory and manufacturing cost accounting.
• Experience at a high-growth technology or manufacturing company.
• Experience supporting year-end review or audit engagements.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Extended health, dental, and vision care, plus life and disability insurance
• Paid time off, on-site parking at our Calgary HQ, and casual dress
• Company events and a team that is genuinely fun to work with

ZeroKey is building the spatial data layer for Physical AI.

AI transformed the digital economy by capturing every keystroke as data. The physical economy has no equivalent. On a factory floor, every human action, material movement, tool motion, and assembly step is invisible to software, and therefore to AI. We close that gap.

Our patented Quantum RTLS® (35+ patents) is the industry?s most accurate large-scale 3D real-time location system. Using ultrasound instead of cameras, it tracks people, tools, robots, and materials across entire factories with an accuracy of 1.5 millimetres, which is over 100 times more precis