Accountant (hybrid)
Field Effect Software
Field Effect is seeking an Accountant to support our fast-growing, global organization. In this role, you will be responsible for processing customer sales orders and subscriptions within our billing and accounting systems, ensuring accuracy across subscriptions, renewals, upgrades, and monthly invoicing.
You’ll play a critical role in supporting revenue operations, financial reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Customer Success, and Finance. The ideal candidate brings strong attention to detail, solid accounting fundamentals, and hands-on invoicing experience in a fast-paced environment. As an Accountant, you will:
- Review and accurately enter customer order forms into accounting and billing systems
- Validate order details for completeness and accuracy, including customer information, product and service descriptions, pricing, discounts, taxes, and payment terms
- Process new orders, renewals, upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations in accordance with revenue recognition policies
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Billing teams to resolve order-related questions, discrepancies, and clarifications
- Generate and distribute customer invoices, and investigate and reconcile billing discrepancies
- Support the accounts receivable process, including responding to client inquiries related to billing and payments
- Assist with month-end close activities, including reconciling order data with general ledger accounts
- Prepare routine reports on order volume, revenue backlog, subscription activity, and billing status
- Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality when handling sensitive financial and customer information
- Perform other ad hoc duties as assigned by the Controller
Skills & Experience We’re Looking for
- Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in accounting or a related field
- 3+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience
- Proficiency in accounting software and billing tools common in software companies
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
- Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy in data entry
- Understanding of accounting principles, deferrals and revenue recognition
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills to handle multiple priorities
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Excited to work within a fast-paced tech environment
- Please note that this is a hybrid role that requires on site presence in our Ottawa HQ office couple days per week.
Added Bonuses
- Experience with MS Dynamics CRM, Business Central, recurring billing platforms
- Familiarity with subscription billing models, recurring revenue, or SaaS metrics
- SaaS / Software industry experience
What You’ll Get by Joining Our Team
- Be part of a company creating real impact for businesses by solving meaningful cybersecurity challenges
- Own your work without red tape
- Collaborate with talented, humble teammates and learn from industry‑leading cybersecurity experts
- Operate with autonomy and accountability in a high trust, delivery focused environment
- Work flexibly in ways that fit your life and help you perform at your best, with benefits and rewards that matter
What to Know Before Applying
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Field Effect is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, colour, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
- To ensure a fair, transparent, and secure hiring process, candidates are required to have their camera on during remote video interviews. This supports identity verification and protects the integrity of our hiring process.
- If technical, bandwidth, or location-related issues may prevent camera use, please notify us in advance so we can assess possible accommodations while maintaining security standards.
- All offers are contingent on successful background and employment verification checks, conducted in compliance with local employment laws.
As part of Ontario’s Pay Transparency framework, Field Effect is committed to open and equitable compensation. Our salary ranges are designed to reflect the scope of the role, required skills and experience, and opportunities for growth within the position. Final offers are based on a combination of relevant experience, skill set, geographic location, and internal equity.
This role represents a current vacancy. While AI tools may be used to support portions of the hiring process, all final hiring decisions are made by our people and talent team in partnership with hiring leaders.
About Field Effect:
People rarely can say that they work at a job they truly love—unless, of course, they work at Field Effect. We believe in investing in the personal and professional success of our employees. We want our teammates to feel great about the work that they do and about themselves when they are with us. That is our culture.
We have an all-star team with industry leading cyber security knowledge and analytical thinking that is engaged, motivated, genuinely curious, and has the willingness to be as diligent as possible. Field Effect is a rapidly growing company with an increasingly distributed global workforce that provides world-class managed cyber security solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company was founded by the brightest talents in cyber security, with a mission to remove the complexity of securing endpoints and networks by delivering monitoring and threat protection services that are easy to use and provide actionable insights.
Field Effect has earned their outstanding reputation through innovation, ingenuity and drive to change the cyber security industry. As a result of the exceptional workplace and culture they have built, Field Effect has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Small and Medium Employers in 2023.In addition, they have been consistently named one of the top employers in Ottawa, by Invest Ottawa. This team is committed to helping businesses simplify and improve their cyber security by empowering their employees to collaborate, grow and thrive in their fields.