Senior Accountant

About Plooto Plooto is a fast-growing payments SaaS platform helping businesses automate and streamline their payment operations. Our Finance team plays a central role in maintaining the rigorous financial integrity that a regulated payments business demands, across multiple legal entities, currencies, and compliance frameworks. About the Role We're looking for a highly technical and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our growing Finance team. This role is ideal for someone with strong financial accounting fundamentals, audit experience, and a continuous improvement mindset who enjoys building scalable, efficient processes in a fast-moving environment. You'll play a key role in supporting month-end close, financial reporting, payroll, audits, and process optimization across the organization. We're looking for someone who not only understands accounting deeply, but also actively looks for ways to improve how work gets done through automation, systems thinking, and operational efficiency. An interest in emerging technologies, including AI and workflow automation, is considered a strong asset. What You'll Do Financial Reporting & Entity Management Own core month-end and year-end close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting Manage the full-cycle accounts payable (AP) process, including vendor invoice coding, approvals, and payment runs Prepare and review revenue recognition entries, including treatment of deferred revenue Maintain and reconcile prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and other balance sheet schedules, ensuring accurate amortization/depreciation and supporting documentation Help maintain rigorous separation of trust (client funds) and operating accounts in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policy Support financial exposure reporting related to payment losses, chargebacks, and disputes; collaborate with Risk and Operations to quantify and track losses Monitor foreign exchange exposure across multi-currency entities and support hedging documentation Compliance, Controls & Audit Design and help strengthen the internal controls framework across accounting processes, with particular attention to segregation of duties and payment fund safeguarding Support the year-end audit, SR&ED submission, tax filings, and other regulatory reporting obligations Help ensure ASPE/IFRS compliance and assist in keeping accounting policies up to date for all entities Proactively flag control gaps and support remediation efforts before they become audit findings Support North American payroll operations, including payroll accounting, reconciliations, and compliance considerations Automation & Process Efficiency Support the accounting tech stack; help evaluate and optimize tools (Xero, Plooto, and beyond) to eliminate manual effort and increase accuracy Partner with Business Intelligence and Engineering to help automate…