Manager, Accounting

Recognized as one of Canada’s top startups two years in a row — climbing from #4 in 2024 to #2 in 2025 — Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies🚀. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class sales and trading team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

As Manager, Accounting at Hiive, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving core accounting operations, ensuring rigorous internal controls, and guiding the team through complex transactions and scenarios in a rapidly growing and changing environment.

Reporting directly to the Controller, this position will be crucial in elevating team performance by providing hands-on mentorship and establishing and maintaining best-practice guidelines for the entire accounting cycle.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Managing and overseeing the team’s expense corporate credit card program and management system, ensuring timely reporting, compliance, and accurate data.

• Driving the research, documentation, and conclusion of complex technical accounting matters, ensuring compliance with US GAAP.

• Reviewing reconciliations and journal entries, ensuring timely and accurate monthly variance analysis and resolution of discrepancies.

• Providing oversight of the Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) functions, ensuring efficient collections and vendor payments.

• Assisting in overseeing the month-end and year-end financial closing process, ensuring deadlines are met efficiently and financial records are closed accurately.

• Monitoring system integrations, maintaining financial data integrity, and troubleshooting issues that may arise.

• Working with external advisors and auditors to ensure compliance across financial reporting and tax.

Required Skills:

• CPA designation required.

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally in a start-up or fast-growing environment.

• Ability to leverage technology, with a strong commitment to data integrity and experience driving efficiencies through automation and system improvements.

• Strong financial operations management skills, particularly managing a high-volume of transactions.

• Exceptional communication (written and verbal) and organizational skills, with the ability to translate complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience researching, documenting, and concluding on complex technical accounting matters, ensuring compliance with US GAAP.

• At least of 2-years experience managing all or part of the month-end process.

• Experience with NetSuite is an asset.

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.

• A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.