Job Summary:

As a key member of the North America Accounting Team, the Senior GL Accountant plays an important role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timely delivery of financial information across our statutory and management general ledgers.

In this role, you will take ownership of core close, reconciliation, and reporting activities while partnering with stakeholders across Finance and the broader business. You'll use your accounting expertise and judgment to investigate issues, explain financial impacts, strengthen controls, and identify opportunities to improve the way work gets done.

This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting professional who enjoys balancing hands-on accounting with problem-solving, cross-functional partnership, and the opportunity to mentor others.

Who will love this job:

You are a detail-oriented accounting professional who can see both the numbers and the bigger picture. You enjoy digging into complex transactions, understanding what is driving an issue, and translating your findings into clear, actionable information for others.

You are comfortable taking ownership of deadlines and deliverables, collaborating with financial and non-financial stakeholders, and knowing when an issue requires escalation. You bring strong technical accounting fundamentals, sound judgment, and a customer-focused mindset. You also enjoy improving processes and sharing your knowledge to help strengthen the broader team.

What you'll do:

• Own and coordinate key month-end and year-end close activities across statutory and management general ledgers, ensuring work is completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, monthly reporting packages, and supporting analyses, identifying discrepancies and clearly explaining variances and accounting impacts to stakeholders.
• Analyze system-generated journal entries within JD Edwards E1 and review work completed by junior accountants across assigned accounts and accounting flows.
• Investigate accounting issues related to business activity, changes in operations, IFRS requirements, and ad hoc requests, applying sound judgment to recommend practical solutions.
• Help maintain a strong internal control environment by ensuring compliance with accounting policies, reconciliation and journal-entry standards, documentation requirements, and financial reporting controls.
• Support internal and external audit requests, proactively identifying and escalating accounting or control issues when appropriate.
• Contribute to half-year and year-end consolidated reporting packages, annual tax package preparation, and other recurring financial reporting requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance and the business to understand transactions, assess accounting implications, and translate complex financial information into clear insights.
• Mentor and support the development of junior accounting team members and CPA students through coaching, review, and knowledge sharing.
• Identify and help implement improvements to accounting processes, reporting, controls, and system workflows that increase accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.

What's in it for me?

Being part of an inclusive and diverse company where professional development and internal career mobility is front-and-center to our talent strategy. This means your career at Pernod Ricard has many possibilities. You'll be part of a culture that celebrates the rich diversity of our people across the globe and be part of our long-standing commitment to making exceptional products, giving back to our communities, and honoring our responsibility to preserve the environment.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally within a complex or multinational organization.
• Canadian or US CPA designation, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, month-end close, account reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting.
• Working knowledge of IFRS and internal control requirements.
• Experience working across integrated accounting processes and understanding how business transactions flow through the general ledger and financial statements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to research accounting issues, identify root causes, and communicate conclusions clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting concepts and financial impacts to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience reviewing the work of others and providing coaching, mentoring, or technical guidance to junior team members.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with enterprise resource planning and financial reporting systems.
• Experience supporting consolidated reporting, audit requirements, and tax-related reporting or compliance activities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy, accountability, and customer focus.
• Experience with JD Edwards E1 and Hubble by insightsoftware is strongly preferred.

Job Posting End Date:
2026-09-10

Target Hire Date:
2026-09-14

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