Staff Accountant

Job Summary: 
Volaris Group acquires, strengthens, and grows vertical market software companies, enabling them to be clear leaders within their focused industries. With over 120 companies across more than 35 countries, Volaris Group continues to seek long term investment opportunities in companies, technologies, or ideas that add value to existing core markets or allow entry into new ones. Volaris Group’s success is based on a decentralized business model where acquired companies retain their autonomy, gain access to trainings and best practices, and are never sold. 

As a subset of Volaris Group, our portfolio presently includes 46+ growth-oriented companies. In addition to supporting the organic growth goals of these businesses, we are actively looking to acquire new businesses that expand our functional and geographic coverage. Our team members are collaborative, engaging, and highly ambitious. Their dedication continues to help us grow and thrive. 

The Position: 
This position will report directly to the VP, Finance (Bacchus Portfolio), and work as part of the broader Finance team. They will be a key part of portfolio reporting as well as working with the portfolio business units to improve group reporting and internal processes and controls. 
The ideal candidate will have a solid grounding in accounting, finance, and general business concepts, with superior analytical skills, a strong work ethic, and great interpersonal skills. 

What can I expect to do in this role? 

You will: 

• Post monthly and quarterly entries relating to: 

• IC charges including providing support and resolving any concerns 

• Transfer pricing entries  

• Payroll and related entries including bonus entries, expense reports, etc 

• Prepare recs and submit timely per monthly timelines. Help follow up on incomplete recs across the portfolio 

• Roll forward templates and capture any reporting updates requested by Volaris in templates 

• Manage concur (Expense managing tool) to timely process approved expense reports and submit to Payroll 

• Prepare payments for processing as requested (invoice payments for portfolio and requested payments by other sub portfolios as needed) and maintain adequate support of approval for internal audit compliance 

• Timely preparation of tax pack for portfolio holding company and support any portfolio companies in preparing tax pack 

• Provide support/follow up to ensure timely resolution of  

• unreconciled IC balances within portfolio 

• unmapped BPC accounts to error in uploads 

• Review monthly and quarterly reporting submissions in a timely manner for completeness and follow up with teams for any delays. 

• Coordinate with concerned functions to timely resolve any variances from reporting submissions 

• Be the point of contact for portfolio for BPC and GP submissions to review for completeness and accuracy of the request 

• Other projects such as template improvements and help resolve pain points such as variances in IP and CR schedules, help with NetSuite implementation coordination and adhoc AI and process improvement initiatives. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, equivalent degree 

• Four to eight years experience in an Accounting or Controllership position 

• Good organizational and analytical skills and ability to prioritize multiple activities and requirements 

• Able to obtain, analyze and appraise data 

• Software Industry Experience is considered an asset 

• You have comprehensive theoretical and applied knowledge of IFRS standards, accounting principles, and audit practices and methodologies 

• Problem solving/Logic/Root Cause analysis 

• Ethics/Integrity 

• Adaptable to Change/Learns quickly 

• Action-Oriented 

• Ability and willingness to travel (up to 40%) 
    

Preferred Qualifications 

• Professional accreditation, e.g. CPA, ACCA or international IFRS based qualification. 

Preferred Competencies 

• Ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment, while partnering with business stakeholders to understand emerging risks. 

• Ability to proactively provide thought-leadership to offer suggested solutions/path forward to resolve issues. 

• Lead meetings and discussions, including developing agendas and creating materials with the appropriate amount of detail for the audience, and proactively follow through on open items. 

• Self-directed to meet deadlines with complete and accurate deliverables. 

• Applies critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, and professional judgement when problem solving to overcome challenges. 

• Ability to assess the financial relevance of in-scope systems/processes/controls and provide recommendations for improvement to mitigate risk.  

• Collaborates to pursue innovative opportunities to optimize and simplify processes.