Financial Accountant – AI & Automation

Financial Accountant – AI & Automation

Location: Head Office, 2355 Skymark Ave, Mississauga, ON (office-based, with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days a week)
Employment type: Full-time, permanent
Reports to: Finance Controllership Lead
Compensation: Base salary by experience — 0–1 year: $55,000–$60,000 · 2–4 years: $65,000–$75,000 · 4–6 years: $75,000–$80,000 CAD
Vacancy: This posting is for an existing vacancy (a newly created position).

About us

GoZen Intelligence (GoFleet / ZenduIT) is a Mississauga-headquartered fleet telematics and IoT company, founded in 2015. We help fleets track vehicles and assets, improve driver safety, cut fuel use and run cleaner operations, with customers across North America and Latin America. We are a lean team that uses AI every day to work faster and smarter, and finance is no exception.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Financial Accountant who is as comfortable with a reconciliation as with an AI prompt. First and foremost, you will be a proper hands-on accountant who owns bookkeeping, year-end closing and taxation, along with AP, AR and reconciliations — and you will actively redesign how that work gets done, using AI and automation to remove manual admin. This is an individual-contributor role with real visibility: you will work closely with our Finance Controllership Lead and give senior leadership clear, reliable numbers.

What you will do

Top priority: bookkeeping, year-end closing and taxation

• Bookkeeping: record all transactions in Zoho Books, post journal entries, maintain the general ledger and keep records clean and audit-ready.
• Month-end close: bank, credit card, intercompany and balance-sheet reconciliations; accruals, prepaids and deferred revenue.
• Year-end closing: year-end adjustments, working papers and schedules; close the books and coordinate the year-end review or audit with our external accountants.
• Taxation (Canada): prepare GST/HST returns; prepare year-end tax working papers and support the corporate tax return (T2); prepare information slips (e.g., T4A, T5018); track CRA deadlines and instalments.

Accounts payable and receivable

• Run AP end to end: invoice processing, vendor records and payment runs.
• Run AR end to end: invoicing, customer records, collections follow-up and aging review.
• Answer auditor and external-accountant requests and track adjustments through to closing.

AI and automation

• Identify repetitive finance admin and automate it using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Grok, Zoho Zia) and workflow tools (e.g., Zoho Flow, Zapier, Power Automate).
• Build and document AI-assisted workflows — such as invoice capture, reconciliation matching, collections reminders and variance commentary — with clear controls and human review.
• Verify AI output against source data before anything is posted, paid or reported.
• Measure the time saved and the error rate of each workflow you build.

Reporting and KPIs

• Maintain finance KPIs: days to close, days sales outstanding (DSO), AP on-time payment rate, reconciliation completion and aging.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs and short, plain-language commentary for the Controllership Lead and senior leadership.

Your first 30 / 60 / 90 days

First 30 days — learn and stabilise

• Learn our chart of accounts, entities, Zoho Books setup and close calendar.
• Take ownership of AP and AR processing and the monthly bank reconciliations.
• Map the current finance workflows and log where time is lost to manual admin.

By 60 days — own the close and pick your automations

• Run your areas of month-end close independently, on schedule.
• Deliver the first KPI pack (days to close, DSO, AP aging, reconciliation status).
• Propose your top three automation opportunities with expected hours saved; build the first one with review controls.

By 90 days — deliver and measure

• Have at least two AI-assisted workflows live, documented and measured.
• Have year-end readiness in place: a schedule list, audit/review file plan and tax filing calendar.
• Present results to the Controllership Lead and senior leadership: hours saved, accuracy and next priorities.

What you bring

Required

• 1–5 years of accounting experience in industry or public practice (exceptional new graduates and candidates up to 6 years are welcome to apply).
• A degree or diploma in accounting, finance or a related field.
• Hands-on bookkeeping, year-end closing and Canadian tax experience, plus AP, AR, reconciliations and month-end close.
• Working knowledge of Canadian GST/HST and year-end corporate tax requirements.
• Strong fluency with Claude and Grok is a must: you use them for accounting work (analysis, reconciliations, drafting, prompts or templates) and you always check their output against source data.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills (lookups, pivots, reconciliations).
• Clear written and spoken communication, and comfort presenting numbers to senior leaders.
• Ability to work from our Mississauga office, with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days a week.

Nice to have

• CPA designation or CPA in progress (PEP) — an asset, not required.
• Hands-on Zoho Books experience (our ledger), or QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite with the ability to ramp up on Zoho Books quickly.
• Experience building automations (Zoho Flow, Zapier, Power Automate, scripts or macros).
• Exposure to SaaS or subscription revenue, hardware sales, or multi-currency / multi-entity accounting (Canada, US, Mexico).
• Experience supporting an external audit or review engagement.

What we offer

• Salary by experience: $55,000–$60,000 (0–1 year), $65,000–$75,000 (2–4 years), $75,000–$80,000 (4–6 years).
• Paid vacation.
• Paid statutory holidays.
• Medical benefits from day one.
• A role where your automation ideas get built, not just discussed.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and room to grow into senior accounting and finance-systems ownership.

How we use AI in our company

AI is part of how we work. Every team at GoZen uses AI tools to research, draft, analyse and automate, and people review and own the results. We look for people who use AI thoughtfully and responsibly.

Use of AI in our hiring process

We use artificial intelligence to help screen and assess applications for this role, including AI-assisted application review and an AI-conducted interview. People on our team review the results and make all hiring decisions.

Diversity and inclusion

GoZen is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background, identity and experience, and we make employment decisions based on skills, merit and business need. Diverse perspectives make our team and our product better.

Accommodations

We are committed to an accessible and barrier-free hiring process, in line with Ontario's Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code. If you need an accommodation at any stage — application, assessment, AI interview or in-person interview — tell us and we will work with you to meet your needs.

After you interview

We will let every candidate we interview know the outcome within 45 days of their final interview.