✨ About the Company

Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing.

We're profitable, we have a three-year revenue growth of over 200%, ranking us 97th in 2024 and 86th on The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2025 list. In 2025 alone, our sales exceeded $65M CAD, we are proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified™ for 3 years in a row! Learn more about us at Makeship.com.

🧑‍💻 About the Role

During this exciting phase of our growth, you’ll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you’ll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community!

We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!

🌟 What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Finance Operations Specialist to efficiently manage our procure-to-pay financial processes, ensuring positive vendor relationships and accurate and timely transaction processing. In this role, you will handle various accounting tasks in the areas of accounts payable, expense management, banking and process improvement. We are looking for a detail-oriented candidate with previous experience in accounts payable or payroll who is eager to join our passionate Finance team.

🚀 Your Key Responsibilities

Payment & Payout Operations

• Support the processing, review, and tracking of high-volume creator payments via wire transfer and PayPal, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Monitor payment workflows and assist in maintaining timely payouts.
• Operate and continuously improve the accounts payable function, including timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices and payments.
• Maintain vendor and creator records, including payment details and unique payment terms, ensuring data integrity and audit readiness.
• Review invoices and payment details to identify discrepancies and escalate issues as needed.
• Collaborate with vendors and creators to help resolve invoicing and payment discrepancies.
  
  

Cash, Banking & Payment Controls

• Manage daily activity across chequing and savings accounts to ensure sufficient balances and payment execution.
• Process payments via corporate credit cards and manage Float account balances, monitoring limits and usage to support uninterrupted operations.
• Support cash flow visibility through accurate tracking of outgoing payments and upcoming obligations.
  
  

Payroll & Statutory Compliance

• Execute semi-monthly payroll preparation and processing, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with internal controls and statutory requirements.
• Prepare Sales Tax returns, maintaining compliance and supporting audit requirements.
  
  

Operational Risk Mitigation

• Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize and document transactional finance processes to improve efficiency, reduce risk and support scalability.
• Support the development and maintenance of financial controls to ensure consistency, accuracy and compliance as transaction volumes grow.
  
  

Cross-Functional Support & Collaboration

• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal payment- and invoice-related inquiries, ensuring timely responses and strong internal service levels.
• Support month-end close activities as required, including timely completion of operational tasks, reconciliations and reporting inputs.
• Collaborate with the Finance team, leadership and wider business to support initiatives and special projects as required.

🧠 What You Bring

• 2+ years of accounts payable and/or payroll experience.
• Post-secondary education.
• An in-depth understanding, with previous experience in Payroll and Accounts Payable.
• Has a strong understanding of month-end preparation / basic accounting cycles.
• Proficiency in spreadsheet and financial software (i.e., ERP and Excel).
• Ability to prepare month-end and daily monitoring tasks and journal entries.
• Attention to detail with respect to data accuracy.
• Bring a positive, proactive attitude with the discipline to work independently from home and the initiative to self-correct and optimize how work gets done.

👀 Bonus

• Creator economy industry experience.
• Involvement in financial statement preparation, audit or review engagements.
• Ability to effectively communicate with external vendors when required.
• Familiarity with our systems: NetSuite, ADP, Float, Airtable, Shopify.
• Understanding of accounting principles.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs.
• Health and dental benefits from day 1.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday).
• Additional 1 week of paid time off during the holidays.
• Virtual & In-Person Social Events.
• Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off.
• 1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%.
• $500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance.
• $400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance.
• $65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance.
• Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program.
• Education Assistance Program.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Tenured Rewards Program.

Salary Band: $50-60k CAD per annum. Individual salaries will be dependent on unique skills, experience and qualifications.

Vacancy Status: Existing vacancy

At Makeship, we are committed to fostering an environment that welcomes people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We are passionate about building an equitable and inclusive culture for our unique and diverse team of employees, which makes us Makeship. As an equal-opportunity employer, we value and embrace everyone's opinions and differences, and actively seek new Makeshippers who will work respectfully with our team, propelling our company and the community forward. If there are any accommodations we can provide to make your interview experience more accessible and inclusive, please let us know in your application.