Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Soutron Global builds and supports library, archive, and collections management software for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. The Accounting Supervisor will own the multi-entity close, reconciliations, revenue accounting, billing, collections, accounts payable, NetSuite migration workstreams, audit support, controls, and supervision of two accounting team members.
Responsibilities
- Own the close calendar across all group entities. Publish it, run it, and land it on the agreed day
- Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepaids, deferred revenue, intercompany, and foreign exchange entries
- Own the balance sheet reconciliations — a documented, reviewed reconciliation for every material account, every month, with supporting schedules a third party can follow without a conversation
- Prepare the monthly reporting pack for the Controller’s review, with variance commentary that says what moved and why
- Where two reports disagree, find the cause, fix it, and write down the reconciliation. This is a standing expectation of the role, not an occasional task
- Apply the group’s revenue recognition policy across SaaS subscriptions, hosted and on-premise licenses, support and maintenance, implementation and data migration services, training, and third-party pass-through
- Own the deferred revenue and contract asset roll-forwards, reconciled to the contract population rather than to last month’s balance
- Review new and renewing contracts against the revenue checklist and escalate anything that does not fit it — multi-element arrangements, consortium and statewide agreements, mid-term expansions, non-standard terms
- Maintain the schedules that support the policy, and flag where the policy does not answer the question in front of you
- Own billing accuracy across renewals, new business, change orders, and professional services, and the handoff from contract administration into the ledger
- Own the accounts receivable ledger and the collections process — aging discipline, a documented dunning cycle, escalation paths, and weekly reporting on aging and days sales outstanding
- Be clear on what you are taking on: one legacy entity currently carries the large majority of its receivable book past 30 days. Improving that aging against a baseline agreed in month one is the single most measurable objective in this role, and it will require working with sales, customer success, and public sector procurement contacts — not just the ledger
- Own accounts payable — approval workflow, vendor master integrity, payment runs, and 1099 and T4A reporting
- Carry the finance-side migration work for the areas you own: opening balance validation, sub-ledger tie-out, historical comparatives, and the parallel-run reconciliation
- Operate the system day to day — general ledger, accounts receivable and payable, revenue module, multi-currency — and build the saved searches, reports, and dashboards that replace offline spreadsheets
- Document what you configure and write the desk procedures, so the work is not dependent on you personally
- Supervise the Staff Accountant and the Accounting Administrator — allocate work, review output, set standards, and develop them. This is real people management, not work direction in name only
- Write the desk procedures for the whole team. Where knowledge lives in one person’s head today, get it on paper
- Recommend how the team should be structured as the group grows, and make the case for it
- Prepare the audit and review schedules, manage the request list, and clear items to a timetable
- Support indirect tax compliance with advisers — US sales and use tax including software and SaaS nexus, Canadian GST/HST and provincial taxes, UK VAT, and state and provincial registrations
- Execute the finance-side controls the group needs for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness — evidenced approvals, documented segregation of duties in NetSuite, and access reviews for finance systems. Control design sits above you; operating the controls and producing the evidence is yours
Skills
- Full ownership of a monthly close in a multi-entity environment, including reviewing other people's work
- Hands-on ASC 606 experience in a subscription software or SaaS business. You have prepared deferred revenue roll-forwards and worked multi-element contracts yourself. You understand the difference between a booking, an invoice, and revenue
- NetSuite experience, hands-on. Migration or implementation exposure is materially preferred over long tenure as a routine user
- Multi-currency and intercompany experience — you have prepared translation, remeasurement, and intercompany entries, not just read about them
- Accounts receivable and collections ownership, with a track record of moving an aging profile you can describe in numbers
- Supervisory experience — you have managed or closely reviewed at least one person's work, including giving difficult feedback
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and five or more years of progressive accounting experience
- CPA or CA, or actively pursuing it. We will support completion
- Experience in a private-equity-backed business — monthly discipline and short-notice requests are normal here
- Experience bringing an acquired set of books onto a group chart of accounts and close calendar
- Cross-border US and Canada experience, including indirect tax in both
- Advanced Excel and comfort with data — large reconciliations, Power Query, and enough reporting-tool fluency to answer your own questions
Benefits
- Remote, United States or Canada
- We will support completion of the CPA or CA qualification.
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