About Us

At Showbie, we’re building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps, Showbie and Socrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a growing global team located across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Nordics.

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of tenacity, caring, and curiosity guide our attitudes and actions each day.

About The Role

As the Controller, you will oversee the Showbie’s financial operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. You will work closely with the existing finance team, leadership, and other cross-functional teams to enhance financial processes, implement internal controls, and support business growth. This is a hands-on role requiring a strong accounting foundation and the ability to provide strategic insights that contribute to the company’s success.

What You'll Do

• Financial Operations & Reporting
  • Oversee all accounting functions, including month-end and year-end close processes.
  • Prepare and review financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
  • Manage and coordinate regulatory reporting, tax filings, and statutory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Provide variance analysis and insights on financial performance.
• Internal Controls & Compliance
  • Develop, implement, and monitor internal control policies and financial procedures.
  • Ensure adherence to GAAP/IFRS and best practices in accounting operations.
  • Support audit processes and liaise with external auditors as needed.
• Business Partnering & Strategic Support
  • Work closely with the VP, Operations and CEO to ensure accurate and timely month-end reporting.
  • Collaborate with department leaders to manage budgets and monitor financial performance.
  • Support revenue operations by working with Sales and Customer Success teams on financial matters related to contracts, pricing, and revenue recognition.
• Process Improvement & Systems Management
  • Optimize financial workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy.
  • Manage financial systems and ensure proper utilization of accounting and ERP tools (e.g., NetSuite or similar software).
  • Assist in financial system implementations and enhancements.
    

What You Bring

• CPA designation
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years post-CPA
• Prior experience as a Controller or senior accounting role within a SaaS or technology company
• Strong understanding of multi-jurisdictional tax environments, intercompany transactions, and consolidations
• Experience with NetSuite or other ERP/accounting systems
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal controls and financial processes
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and provide actionable insights
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively with leadership and cross-functional teams
• Highly organized with a hands-on approach and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  

Bonus

• Experience in SAAS
• Experience with multiple global entities under a parent company

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you!
• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.
• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. We’re growing, but we’re a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.
• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.
• We value work-life balance. When we're at work we're excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going “home” (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Holidays makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.
• While we take government holidays off, if they aren't ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.
• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.
  
• Generous flex time and time off during December Holidays.

Check out our Work at Showbie page to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

This role is based in: Canada (remote).

This role is a permanent full-time position.

The proposed compensation range for this role is: $115,000 - $130,000

Please note: We appreciate every application, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Additionally, we will only reach out through official @showbie.com email addresses or via our hiring platform, BambooHR. We will never contact you by text message for an interview.

We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.