Accounting Analyst - Vehicles

Accounting Analyst – Vehicles
Rank 4
Scarborough, Ontario (Hybrid)
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Canada's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax. Toyota parts and accessories are distributed through TCI's Parts Distribution Centres in Bowmanville and Vancouver. TCI supports over 287 Toyota and Lexus dealers in Canada with services that include training, sales, marketing, environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives.
What Sets Us Apart?
A focus on People, Passion for Toyota, Innovation and Make Things Better has made us an award-winning company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, community involvement and environmental responsibility.
Job Summary:
Toyota currently has an exciting opportunity for a detailed-orientated individual with strong accounting fundamentals and enjoys solution finding in a fast-paced environment. This individual will be a key member Toyota’s finance & accounting department, supporting accounting and inventory analysis for the Vehicle Division. The selected individual will provide efficient translation of financial data to business information for transparency, meaningful reporting and advice.
What We’ll Bring:

• A hybrid work environment
• Great company culture – Respect for people and continuous improvement is at our core
• Sabbatical Leave Program
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
• Company pension plan with matched contribution
• Summer Hours – condensed work week during the summer
• Paid holiday shutdown and competitive paid time off benefits
• Associate vehicle discount program
• Fitness reimbursement
• Competitive compensation package including health and dental benefits, and bonus
• Health and dental benefits effective immediately
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Timely investigation and resolution of discrepancies, including GR/IR accounts, with adjustments recorded in P&L; identify root cause
• Maintain accuracy of vehicle inventory accounts and cost of goods entries recorded to the P&L; including purchase price condition reconciliation and adjustments
• Provide efficient translation of financial data to business information for transparency, meaningful reporting & advice
• Work with business and IS partners to support process to ensure accurate vehicle pricing for TCI transactions; interface integrity with SAP systems

Period End Closing Activities

• Responsible for monthly financial close activities for Vehicle Divisions, including preparation of journal entries, data and general ledger account analysis to ensure recording and reporting in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Timely and accurate Shareholder reporting [iFEM, Mitsui, CONETS] and internal financial reporting
• Support COGS / margin analysis analyses for monthly financial review meeting and business review meetings
• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts, including inventory and GR/IR accounts for Vehicles Divisions

Quarterly/Annual/Year-End Audit

• Support Team Lead, Profitability on forecasting and budget setting process especially COGS analytics
• Prepare account reconciliations for Vehicles, inventory and GR/IR accounts
• Provide quarter-end/year-end audit support (tax, internal control, PwC) for assigned business areas

Ad hoc

• Support testing and development of SAP system enhancements including interfaces and Business Intelligence reporting
• Assist with ad hoc projects to support F&A and assigned business areas, as required
• Proactively act on opportunities to continuously improve internal process, such as developing and/or refining working templates/model, reporting, and developing standard operating procedures (SOPs)

What You’ll Bring:

• Highly motivated individual, who is a self-starter, quick learner, organized, logical thinker and customer focused, likes new challenges
• Advanced Excel skills
• Comfortable working with large data sets
• 3 - 5 years financial experience (including financial budgeting, planning, reporting and analysis experience).
• ERP system experience coupled with Financial Reporting tools (SAP experience preferred)
• CPA/CA/CMA/CGA designation or candidate, preferred
• University degree in Business/Accounting
• Demonstrated commitment to delivering exceptional customer service and working collaboratively with internal & external business partners
• Experience partnering with the business including at senior levels
• Dedication to Continuous improvement (Challenge, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu)

What You Should Know:
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.