This is your chance to join a fast-paced organization with a large, stable, and continuously growing presence in the vertical market software industry!
Harris is currently looking to hire an Assistant Controller to join our corporate Financial Reporting team, with a dedicated focus on revenue recognition. The ideal candidate for this role has their professional accounting designation (or is currently enrolled as a student), hands-on experience applying IFRS 15 to software or technology revenue, a strong analytical mindset, and a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
As Assistant Controller, Revenue, you will be part of the corporate Financial Reporting team that sits above our business unit finance teams and provides technical accounting review across Harris’s portfolio of software businesses. Reporting to the Revenue Accounting Manager, you will play a central role in the review of revenue recognition across a high volume of business units as part of the month, quarter, and year-end close process, ensuring revenue conclusions are well supported, consistent, and compliant with IFRS 15 while working closely with the senior leadership team in each business unit as their “trusted business advisor”
This role is based out of our newly renovated corporate head office in Ottawa, Ontario, although Harris Finance employees are currently working remotely.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR NEW ROLE
Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timely completion of monthly financial reporting.
Technical accounting analysis under IFRS.
Reviewing IFRS 15 revenue contract checklists prepared by business unit finance teams, ensuring conclusions are properly supported, consistently applied, and completed on time each quarter
Reviewing multiple-element software arrangements to ensure proper revenue recognition under IFRS 15 guidelines, including regular preparation and/or review of supporting schedules.
Reviewing standalone selling price (SSP) analyses and supporting periodic SSP studies across business units
Reviewing work-in-progress (WIP) schedules and percentage-of-completion revenue calculations for project-based and services revenue
Technical accounting analyses under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with an emphasis on IFRS 15
Coordinating and responding to external & internal auditor requests and queries during quarterly reviews and the interim and year-end audit
Supporting process improvements, templates, and training materials that raise the quality of revenue reporting across business units
Leading special ad hoc projects that impact various stakeholders within the organization
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
4+ years of experience in an accounting or finance environment
Completed or working towards a CPA designation
Hands-on experience applying IFRS 15 / revenue recognition, ideally to software or technology arrangements
Strong attention to detail, sound professional judgment, and comfort raising issues and communicating findings to stakeholders
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT
Familiarity IFRS reporting framework
Progressive experience at a public accounting firm (particularly auditing software or technology clients) or at a software company
Solutions-focused mindset with a desire to improve processes
WHAT WE OFFER
Three weeks' vacation and five personal days
Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage from your first day of employment
Financial and professional development support for CPA candidates and members
Employee stock ownership and RRSP matching programs
Lifestyle rewards
Flexible work options
Performance driven organization with many opportunities for advancement
And more!
COMPENSATION DETAILS
The potential salary range for this role is $70,000 to $80,000 per year, with eligibility for bonus or merit program. Final compensation will be based on experience, skills, market conditions, and internal equity. We offer a competitive Total Rewards program including health benefits, RRSP matching, stock option, and career development opportunities.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in an accounting or finance environment
- Completed or working towards a CPA designation
- Hands-on experience applying IFRS 15 and revenue recognition, ideally to software or technology arrangements
- Strong attention to detail, sound professional judgment, and ability to communicate findings to stakeholders
- Familiarity with the IFRS reporting framework
- Progressive experience at a public accounting firm or software company
- Experience auditing software or technology clients
- Solutions-focused mindset and desire to improve processes
Harris healthcare Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harris healthcare and has not been reviewed or approved by Harris healthcare.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and paid holidays are characterized as generous, with ample time off emphasized. This breadth of time-off options is highlighted alongside favorable impressions of vacation and sick leave.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote-work flexibility and trust to work from home are emphasized, indicating adaptable arrangements for many roles. Flexibility is positioned as a tangible part of the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, and vision, along with life and disability insurance and HSA/FSA options. Health plans are often characterized as good, contributing to a solid foundational offering.
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What We Do
For over 25 years, Harris Healthcare has been rising to the challenge of bringing together the most innovative and sustainable solutions for today’s ever-changing healthcare environment, in order to improve patient care and safety. Each one of our solutions brings organizational efficiencies on its own. Powerful synergies are achieved when multiple solutions are implemented together. The Harris Healthcare portfolio includes the following solutions: ♦ HARRIS Flex - an enterprise-level EHR solution that improves patient safety and clinical workflows. It includes a full complement of applications integrated in one single database, provides solid clinical decision support to your clinicians and helps standardize care while enforcing protocols and best practices at any Healthcare Organization. HARRIS Flex conveys the digital solution’s flexibility and strength. Healthcare organizations are continuously faced with new challenges and situations and require flexible EHR’s that can be rapidly adapted to their evolving clinical practice. Contrary to other EHR solutions which are inflexible and where customizations require costly support from the vendor, HARRIS Flex gives you the freedom to "flex" your EHR as you need it entirely on your own. The enhanced HARRIS Flex solution comes with new functionality including: ♦Flex Telehealth which enables virtual visits directly from within the EHR/EPR, and ♦Flex Clinical Insight which facilitates extraction and analysis of your EHR/EPR data to improve your processes and outcomes. ♦ SynergyCheck – a proactive interface monitoring solution watching over Clinical, Financial and other interfaces 24/7 to ensure data is flowing between systems
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