Bhjob15656_20172 - Accountant (Intermediate)

Accountant (Intermediate)

Location: Newfoundland, Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario (Hybrid)

Contract Term: 12 Months

Starts: ASAP

Key Responsibilities:

• Regular review of all key processes to ensure internal controls are strengthened where required
• Ensuring asset settlements are complete and depreciation is recorded appropriately
• Preparing quarterly reporting for local accountants in several jurisdictions
• Preparing monthly reporting for project managers comparing actual CAPEX spend against budgets and forecasts
• Preparing monthly summaries of capital asset activity, including additions, disposals, transfers, etc.
• Key contact to stakeholders across the business for all CAPEX related queries
• Key contact for all audit queries related to capital assets
• Ensuring meet or exceed service level agreements with stakeholders in organization
• Reviewing and advising on requests for authorisations to spend, including ensuring all necessary paperwork and authorisations are submitted and validated
• Recording accounting transactions related to capitalization of time
• Monthly reporting to Business Units Finance teams regarding capitalization of time
• Ensuring that assets are recorded in appropriate jurisdictions
• Preparing quarterly taxation reporting for fixed and intangible assets
• Maintenance of capital asset related master data
• Promoting the organization’s high performance culture within team and across organization
• Providing financial information to operational leaders during the budget process
• Preparing fixed and intangible asset notes to the financial statements for required legal entities
• Accountability for monthly CAPEX analysis and internal reporting
• Regular review of the Fixed Asset Register to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence
• Recording accounting transactions related to capitalized borrowings
• Adhering to the month end reporting deadlines
• Identifying areas to derive process efficiencies including streamlining activities, removing waste from processes, and the deployment of Robotic Process Automation
• Applying expertise around CAPEX IFRS accounting standards
• Ensuring the financial accounting of CAPEX within the company is accurate, timely and complete by:
• Ad hoc support for all fixed and intangible asset queries across the business.
• Preparing monthly account reconciliations related to capital assets

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

The candidate must be able to demonstrate skills and knowledge at the depth and scope required for the position.

• A minimum of 3 years of work experience in similar accounting roles; preferably experience in accounting for capital assets.
• Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment.
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal, required
• Excellent analytical skills; good problem solver
• An undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting/Finance, with progress towards a professional accounting designation
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (intermediate level of knowledge)
• Strong organisational skills
• Proactive, hard-working and results oriented
• Excellent attention to detail

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with SAP would be an asset