About the Role:Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence. We value technical expertise, collaborative problem-solving, and a commitment to accuracy and compliance. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our financial infrastructure while working at the intersection of finance and transformative technology. As we scale our business and navigate an evolving financial landscape, you'll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and serving as a key partner on accounting implications of major business decisions.
In this role, you will:- Own assigned areas, including journal entries and complex balance sheet reconciliations, together with the related internal controls.
- Prepare the consolidated financial statements, including the statement of cash flows, and support various management reporting requirements
- Analyze fluctuation and variances and explain drivers and methodology to accounting leaders and finance partners
- Maintain the chart of accounts, supporting account mapping, entity setup, and system changes
- Record and reconcile intercompany transactions, including recharges, loans, and cost allocations
- Run monthly intercompany matching and settlement, and resolve differences with counterparties across entities
- Support eliminations in consolidation, and foreign currency remeasurement and translation, ensuring NetSuite processes operate correctly
- Serve as the operational lead for close activities in Numeric, NetSuite, and related systems, maintain the close calendar and checklist, and flag risks or delays to the accounting leaders early
- Partner with technology and systems teams to identify, pilot, and deploy automation and AI-enabled solutions across reconciliations, recurring analyses, exception triage, flux commentary, and evidence gathering.
- Implement and maintain robust accounting policies, procedures, systems, and internal controls
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial accuracy and support business growth
- Leverage technology solutions to enhance accounting efficiency and accuracy
You may be a good fit if you:- Have 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with prior leadership in fast-paced environments
- Hands-on experience with month-end close, GL accounting, and account reconciliations, using close management tools such as Numeric
- Working knowledge of US GAAP, with experience preparing financial statements and supporting ad-hoc financial reporting requests
- Experience with multi-entity accounting, including intercompany reconciliation, eliminations, and foreign currency
- Experience with leveraging AI tools to build and improve workflows to achieve operational efficiency and accuracy
- Demonstrate excellence in problem-solving and process improvement methodologies
- Show proficiency with financial systems (Netsuite preferred, but not required)
- Exhibit strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments
- Thrive in high-growth, dynamic environments with evolving priorities
- Have experience building scalable accounting processes in technology companies
Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits:
Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
How and Where We Work:- Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
