Senior Accountant

Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence.

As a Senior Accountant, you will:

• Own assigned areas, including journal entries and complex balance sheet reconciliations, together with the related internal controls.
• Prepare the consolidated financial statements, including the statement of cash flows, and support various management reporting requirements.
• Analyze fluctuation and variances and explain drivers and methodology to accounting leaders and finance partners.
• Maintain the chart of accounts, supporting account mapping, entity setup, and system changes.
• Record and reconcile intercompany transactions, including recharges, loans, and cost allocations.
• Run monthly intercompany matching and settlement, and resolve differences with counterparties across entities.
• Support eliminations in consolidation, and foreign currency remeasurement and translation, ensuring NetSuite processes operate correctly.
• Serve as the operational lead for close activities in Numeric, NetSuite, and related systems, maintain the close calendar and checklist, and flag risks or delays to the accounting leaders early.
• Partner with technology and systems teams to identify, pilot, and deploy automation and AI-enabled solutions across reconciliations, recurring analyses, exception triage, flux commentary, and evidence gathering.
• Implement and maintain robust accounting policies, procedures, systems, and internal controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial accuracy and support business growth.
• Leverage technology solutions to enhance accounting efficiency and accuracy.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with prior leadership in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on experience with month-end close, GL accounting, and account reconciliations, using close management tools such as Numeric.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, with experience preparing financial statements and supporting ad-hoc financial reporting requests.
• Experience with multi-entity accounting, including intercompany reconciliation, eliminations, and foreign currency.
• Experience with leveraging AI tools to build and improve workflows to achieve operational efficiency and accuracy.
• Demonstrate excellence in problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Show proficiency with financial systems (NetSuite preferred, but not required).
• Exhibit strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments.
• Thrive in high-growth, dynamic environments with evolving priorities.
• Have experience building scalable accounting processes in technology companies.

Full-time employees at Cohere enjoy perks such as:

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75 or equivalent in local currency.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
• 6 weeks of paid vacation.
• Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite.