Finance Operations Specialist (Contract)

Job Responsibility:

“It's about more than balancing figures. It's about empowering lawyers that help people.”

Finance Operations Specialist, Toronto, Canada

About LEAP LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI - one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people'. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you'll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters' working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you'll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the team LEAP is a rapidly growing organization with a global footprint, and our Finance Team are the resilient quick-thinkers ensuring that growth is always strategic and sustainable.

A finance career here is about so much more than balancing figures, it's about providing financial leadership and management that drives not just our own growth, but the growth of our clients too.

Using our Salesforce technology stack including Zuora, NetSuite & Tableau, you'll record, evaluate and interpret financial data to identify gaps, trends and areas of improvement which actively make LEAP even better for our people, clients and communities.

In return, you'll be supported with resources and opportunities to make more of your career. As well as all the tools you need to turn your financial expertise into analytics and insights that evolve our business and unlock the full potential of LEAP for our clients.

As the Finance Operations Specialist at LEAP Canada, you will play a pivotal role in managing the Accounts Payable process while also contributing to monthly accounting and management reporting tasks. You will be responsible for setting up metrics using Tableau and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure financial data accuracy and compliance.

** This is a contract-based role.

What you'll do

• Actively manage and execute accounts payable processes, ensuring accurate and timely payments.
• Utilize financial systems, including Mineral Tree, online banking platforms, and Excel.
• Set up accounts and payments within our online banking system and maintain banking relationships.
• Prepare annual budget as well as monthly accounting tasks, monthly reports, and process journal entries as needed.
• Set up Tableau reports using data from Sales Force and/or Zuora.
• Demonstrate familiarity with IFRS and cash-based accounting principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial data accuracy and compliance.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or working towards CPA qualification.
• Proven experience in accounts payable and GST reporting.
• Proficiency in Excel (intermediate); ability to adapt to new financial software and systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in financial reporting.
• Self-starter with a "get it done" attitude.
• Comfortable working semi-independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of monthly accounting, reporting, and journal entries processing.
• Experience with financial systems such as Mineral Tree, Tableau, Sales Force, and Zuora.
• Familiarity with cash flow forecasting tools like Float or similar.
• Understanding of IFRS and cash-based accounting principles preferred.

What you'll get

• Flexible working model.
• Superb working environment.
• A fantastic culture - open communication, transparency through practical and quarterly strategic briefings.
• Competitive vacation time, excellent working environment.

Life at LEAP LEAP is all about impact, growth and ownership. We're united by a genuine passion for what we do, enriched by the care we show to our customers and each other and driven by the difference we can make together.

LEAPster culture is about prioritising and celebrating the incredible humans behind our market-leading technology. Think performance-driven remuneration incentives, flexible hybrid work, a world-leading Parenting Policy, regular social events, free gym membership and so much more.

We strongly believe that personal development and career progression are at the heart of a healthy, high-performing culture and we're committed to empowering LEAPsters with resources, ongoing support and more than 20 defined career pathways to explore. With us, your career will grow as you do, with opportunities to step into new roles, explore new departments and even work abroad.