What will you do?- Priority Setting for the Accounting Department - Develops and prioritizes day-to-day individual and interdependent department activities, congruent with the monthly and quarterly financial reporting timeline; monitors, identifies and alleviates emerging information bottlenecks that impact the effectiveness of the department; monitors the day-to-day priorities of the Accounting team members.
- Leading, Motivating & Coaching Staff - Assists in the functional skills development and performance of the accounting department staff; interprets existing corporate policies and regulatory standards.
- Champion the Accuracy & Integrity of Financial Information - Maintains processes for accurately recording transactions in the general ledger and the electronic repository of journal entries. Ensures the integrity of the balance sheet amounts by developing and maintaining excellent practices for GL account reconciliations; assigns reconciliation responsibility among staff and other functional areas; coaches staff and other functional areas on reconciliation procedures. Performs monthly GL reconciliation reviews with the Accounting and other teams.
- Period Close Activities - Issues and updates the monthly accounting schedule and completes all tasks on time; monitors/trouble shoots monthly GL cut-offs to ensure issues related to sub systems feeds are resolved; prepares the consolidated month end trial balance and supporting schedules; implements approved accounting policy changes. Analyzes the monthly and quarterly budget to actual variances.
- IFRS 16 and Capital Assets - Partners with FP&A team in managing the accounting, reconciliation and reporting of reporting for rental assets, non-rental assets, IFRS 16 leased assets (which encompass leased facilities and fleet, etc), and other working papers and trend analysis; provides insights into the impact of changes in depreciation rates for rental assets. Assist in the annual budget process for depreciation and capital lease expenses.
- Intangible Assets - Review Intangible asset entries and reconciliation, assist in the budget process for amortization of intangible assets for the whole company.
- Internal Control - Fosters a strong control environment, over financial reporting and the entire organization, by ensuring that department internal controls are designed effectively; spot checks the operating effectiveness of controls and takes corrective action as required.
- Acquisition Support - Work with the Controller to perform due diligence procedures, assist with inventory counts on acquisition dates, and provide accounting & reporting requirements and support to the newly acquired company's accounting team.
- Organizational Support - proactively works with business partners throughout the organization to provide recommendations on effectiveness, efficiency and controls. Ensures processes are followed and reconciliations performed throughout the business. Development and implementation of processes, procedures, and polices related to acquisitions, systems implementations, new geographies and new products as required.
What do you bring?- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or equivalent
- Five to eight years post qualification experience in general accounting including GL close process and consolidated trial balances
- Previous experience in supervising accounting teams
- General understanding of internal controls over financial reporting
- Proven leadership attributes combined with abilities to coach and motivate staff
- Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to provide an excellent standard of customer service and a desire to serve internal customers promptly and courteously
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to understand concepts beyond accounting, with a strong aptitude for finance and business
- Adaptable in a fast-paced and results driven organization
- Proficient in Excel and Word
- Experience with SAP and Blackline an asset
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
We use AI enabled tools to support parts of our selection process; however, every hiring decision is reviewed and finalized by our people.
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