Accountant (Accountant Ii) Jobs

At Algonquin-Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.
Purpose
The Accountant will be responsible for external financial reporting for APUC. Primary objectives of the Accountant are to prepare the consolidated financial information, to ensure financial reporting accuracy and compliance, to proactively improve reporting by introducing enhancements or new reports to increase usefulness while reducing preparation time.
Accountabilities

• Prepare files and analyze inputs for the quarterly and annual MD&A.
• Owner mindset
• Integrity
• CPA designation or in the process of completing
• Provide support to the external audit process by liaising with auditors, as required, throughout the year to ensure timely completion of the financial and SOX audit.
• Outcome focused
• Experience with HFM, GP and SAP
• Prepare external reporting to the public, financial institutions, and other stakeholders, including review of financials and notes to the financial statements, MD&A and updating Workiva.
• Entrepreneurial
• Minimum 3 years’ experience combined experience in financial reporting and auditing
• Prepare monthly consolidated statements and analysis for internal stakeholders
• Working with divisional teams, ensure that source systems to HFM account mapping is accurate and timely
• Maintaining strong internal controls and ensuring SOX compliance:
• A proactive and independent individual
• Actively participate in the identification and execution of process improvement/best practice initiatives.
• University degree, preferably in business or commerce
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Working with the Corporate Accounting team, ensure that transactions are recorded and reported in a timely and error-free manner.
• Teamwork
• Review and consolidate the cash flow statements prepared by divisional teams for quarterly statements
• Assist in ensuring timely and accurate data in HFM, including ICP mapping, overrides, equity roll, metadata and mapping changes
• Preparation of the Quarterly and annual APUC financial statements and notes to the financials
• Continuous learning
• Ensure intercompany variances are resolved to acceptable thresholds
• Build relationships with the divisional and cross-functional finance teams.
• Customer Centric
• Excellent technical accounting skills and knowledge of GAAP (US GAAP preferable)
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel and Other MS Office applications
• Prepare quarterly and annual standalone legal entities financial statements for financial institutions and regulators