Senior Accountant

Description

Senior Accountant
Full-time, Permanent

Location: Mississauga, ON (hybrid,3 days in office)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 40-hour work week

Salary: up to $93K +9% bonus

Department: Finance – Finance Accounting

Reporting Manager: Controller

About Our Client

Our client is a leading Canadian supplier of automotive, heavy-duty, and industrial products. They are currently seeking a Senior Accountant to join their finance team and play a key role in financial reporting, cost analysis, and business support.

Why Join Our Client’s Team?

• Competitive total compensation — aligned with experience and expertise
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits
• Mental wellness support
• Employer contribution to retirement savings
• Fitness & wellness reimbursement
• Educational assistance and professional development support
• Paid time off including vacation and personal days
• Community involvement initiatives
• A collaborative and inclusive workplace culture featuring:
  • Team events and celebrations
  • Holiday gatherings
  • Lunch & Learns
  • Employee recognition programs

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Reporting directly to the Controller, the Senior Accountant will lead the preparation and delivery of accurate financial reporting and analysis. This is a critical role with responsibility for standard cost analysis, variance reconciliation, data management processes, and overall financial statement preparation.

You will ensure the integrity of financial data, investigate and resolve account discrepancies, and provide meaningful insights to support business decisions. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented and analytical accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in driving accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement in financial operations.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do:

Cost Accounting:

• Maintain and oversee the preparation of all standard cost build-ups (materials, labour, freight, duties, royalties, etc.).
• Perform variances to standard analysis and collaborate with manufacturing operations to identify root causes and corrective actions
• Conduct work order reviews to ensure cost accuracy, proper allocation, and timely variance resolution.
• Support commercial bids by providing accurate cost data and forward-looking forecasts
• Partner with Supply Chain to analyze inbound transportation costs, duties, and manufacturing operations for efficiency opportunities
• Ensure effective and accurate monthly inventory cut-off processes
• Support periodic inventory and cycle count activities
• Support product launches by contributing to “make vs. buy” decision analysis
• Support RFQ (bidding process) by providing cost break-down
• Prepare quarterly customer specific index pricing

General Accounting:

• Perform month end close and journal entry preparation.
• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring assigned assets and liabilities are fairly stated.
• Proactively identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and business enhancements through analysis and other business insights.
• Proactively coordinate assigned aspects of financial reporting, developing a sound understanding overall business operations, underlying areas of GAAP and budget assumptions, ensuring results are fairly stated and can be clearly explained.
• Responsible for development of efficient, effective processes and supporting systems to capture and report on assigned financial information.
• Prepare variance analysis (actual vs. budget and actual vs. forecast) and coordinate investigation and resolution into discrepancies with appropriate department managers.
• Develop and deliver accurate and timely internal financial and performance reports based on business requirements to support effective departmental management and ensure responsible fiscal management.
• Develop and deliver external financial reports based on external stakeholder requirements (government, bank, other stakeholders, etc.).
• Actively partner with business units to understand reporting requirements and ongoing business activities, insight used to adjust financial reporting/analysis to meet changing business needs, while ensuring the optimal accounting for each business activity
• Proactively identify trends and challenges before they occur, recommending solutions and then implementing them.
• Build and maintain trust-based external stakeholder relations

Key Competencies

• Subject matter expert in all aspects of assigned accountability, ability to synthesize a detailed understanding of the issues/results into a concise message for management.
• Strong multi-tasking and prioritizing abilities to meet time sensitive deadlines and fluctuating work demands.
• Ability to anticipate problems and proactively resolve situations before they become larger scale issues.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex concepts or information.
• Detail oriented and display a high degree of accuracy.
• Professional attitude together with a drive to get things done through collaboration and teamwork.
• Flexible and able to make independent decisions quickly.
• High aptitude for learning new concepts and staying current in an ever-changing environment.
• Ability to understand business operations and demonstrate value through partnerships within the organization.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

• University Degree in Business Administration, Commerce or a related discipline with a CPA designation or designation in progress
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience preferred in both costing and general accounting.
• Manufacturing industry experience preferred.

Direct Managerial / Supervisory Responsibility

• N/A

Working Conditions

• Office environment