Financial Reporting Accountant
Key Skills for This Role
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What do we offer?
40-hour work week, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Full complement of company benefits after 3 months
Access to Employee and Family Assistance Program
RetireSmart Program after 6 months
Paid vacation and personal time
Annual Wellness allowance
Perkopolis membership (discount app)
Company events, including BBQs, Holiday party, and Canalta Day
What will you do?
Perform full-cycle accounting activities and take responsibility for assigned general ledger accounts and entities.
Prepare, review, and post monthly journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, inventory adjustments, amortization, and depreciation.
Complete bank, general ledger, and intercompany reconciliations and investigate and resolve discrepancies.
Prepare and file GST returns and other related government reporting.
Prepare monthly financial statements, supporting schedules, and consolidated financial information.
Perform variance analysis, and explain significant differences between actual results, budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.
Analyze financial results to identify unusual transactions, trends, accounting issues, and areas requiring further investigation.
Participate in month-end and year-end close processes, and help ensure reporting deadlines are achieved.
Support financial reviews and year-end audits by preparing working papers and responding to auditor requests.
Assist with maintaining accounting policies, internal controls, and financial reporting procedures.
Identify and implement improvements to accounting processes, reporting, controls, and ERP utilization.
Provide accounting support to other departments and related entities and assist with finance-related projects as required.
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma or degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Experience with full-cycle accounting, month-end close, and financial statement preparation.
- Strong knowledge of general ledger accounting, accruals, prepaids, inventory accounting, and intercompany accounting.
- Experience with multi-entity accounting and intercompany reconciliations.
- Experience supporting financial statement reviews or external audits.
- Experience with ERP accounting systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP, Oracle, or a comparable platform.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and meet reporting deadlines.
- Experience preparing consolidated financial statements is considered an asset.
- Progress toward, or an interest in pursuing, a CPA designation is considered an asset.
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