Junior Accountant

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Ottawa, ON
Junior
Marketing Tech • Software
The Role
The Junior Accountant will manage financial operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and month-end closing. Responsibilities include recording invoices, maintaining vendor balances, processing expense reimbursements, preparing payroll, and assisting with reporting and audits, all while looking for automation opportunities.
Summary Generated by Built In

Knak is a mission-driven company

Why? Because our time is limited, our competition is fierce, and our margin for error is small. For us to have the greatest impact on the world, we need to be laser focused on our core mission, which is...

Empowering people to be creative.

That’s why Knak exists.

We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform.

Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We know that it’s the small things that make the biggest impact and that emails and landing pages are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to Marketing Automation. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand.

Oh, and we have a bit of fun while doing it, too!


The Role

Knak is looking for a candidate to help us with the financial operations of the business. The successful candidate will be independently responsible for ensuring that the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and Month End closing operations run smoothly, with support from the broader accounting and finance team. 

This candidate will help maintain Knak’s records and assist in the month, quarter, and yearly reporting exercises. The candidate will also have a critical role to look for opportunities to automate tasks in the Financial Operations of the company to align with the rapid growth of the organization. They will help us allocate our capital in the most efficient but fiscally responsible way. The candidate will also be keen on process optimization to help the company strive for greater efficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Accounts Payable / Bookkeeping:
    • Recording vendor invoices error free
    • Maintaining current vendor Accounts Payable balances
    • Processing employee expense reimbursements
    • Maintaining balance sheet reconciliations (capital assets, prepaids, deferred revenue, commissions, accrued liabilities, etc.)
  • Accounts Receivable:
    • Drafting invoice estimates
    • Following up with customers on overdue balances
    • Ensuring payments are applied to the correct account
  • Payroll:
    • Preparing semi-monthly payroll
    • Reconciling taxable benefits schedule
    • Onboarding new hires into payroll system
  • Reporting:
    • Collaborating with team to ensure month end is closed within 5-business days
    • Assisting with preparation of annual audit

What you should have:

  • Attention to detail
  • Time management skills
  • Organization and planning
  • Communication skills
  • Ability to adopt a broad range of software tools
  • Experience with Quickbooks Online is considered an asset
  • 1-2 years of accounting experience

What We Offer

At Knak we have four foundational pillars. Culture, customers, product and growth. Culture is our number one pillar because we know that is at the core of building a strong company that can build amazing products and delight our customers. We do this with a laser focus on hiring the right people who are smart, positive and who want more than the typical nine-to-five offers. 

We offer an extremely rewarding, second to none work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa’s Best Places to Work 2024! We show our investment in our people through our competitive salaries, equity in the company, great benefits, paid vacation, Life leave days (because life happens), team lunches and off-sites, and most importantly our commitment to YOUR career growth.

If this sounds like something you’re looking for, then we’d love to hear from you! 

If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply. Knak believes in creating an inclusive, barrier-free working environment. If you require ANY accommodation to the interview process please contact [email protected].


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Top Skills

Accounting
Quickbooks Online
The Company
HQ: Ottawa, Ontario
98 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Knak is the world's first email and landing page creation platform built for enterprise marketing teams.

Our no-code, drag and drop builder is designed to empower marketing teams to create, collaborate, and approve beautiful, on-brand emails and landing pages, and get them to market quickly.

Knak works with today’s top marketing automation platforms including Marketo Engage, Adobe Campaign, Eloqua, SFMC, Acoustic, Pardot, and many more.

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