Senior Accountant

Ref ID: 05050-0012446570

Classification: Sr. Accountant

Compensation: $30.00 to $35.00 hourly

If you're an experienced Senior Accountant, Robert Half needs your professional know-how and leadership for an exciting long-term contract / temporary to hire opportunity. Working as a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for account analysis and reconciliations, financial statement preparation and consolidation, cash flow analysis, budgets and forecasting, audit preparation, and internal control maintenance and regulatory reporting. This Senior Accountant opportunity is located in the Toronto, Ontario area and will offer a great you a great professional experience along with attractive compensation. The ideal Senior Accountant will be someone seeking to succeed in a challenging environment and who has demonstrated success doing so before. Apply today!

Major responsibilities

- Participate in various department-wide initiatives

- Continually improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process

- Arrange monthly consolidated P& L and Balance Sheet flux analysis for management reporting

- Implement monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables (journal entries, reconciliations, reports) in compliance with GAAP

- Operate with business partners to create compliance with corporate accounting policies, procedures and controls and provide support on special requests

- Organize quarterly reviews and testing with internal and external auditors

- Review financial results (benchmarks, trends, performance metrics)

- Formulate Balance Sheet account reconciliations

- Ad-hoc projects as necessary

Job Requirements:
- Minimum 5-7 years of overall general accounting experience

- Proficient at analyzing financial data and promptly creating accurate reports

- Strong analytical capabilities and discernment

- Corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence systems experience a plus

- A level of proficiency in financial reporting is preferential to this role

- Commitment and abilities to meet critical business deadlines

- Highly organized, attentive, has a sense of urgency, flexible and able to deal with frequent interruptions and changing priorities

- Skilled with ERP systems

- Self-starter, ability to identify issues and resolve problems

- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, high pressure environment, to prioritize deals and adapt to quick changes while remaining diligent

- Solid understanding of financial reporting

- SEC reporting and SOX compliance is a plus

- BA/BS in Accounting, CPA credentials are highly desired

- Demonstrated skills in interacting effectively, both verbally and in writing, with functional managers

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