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Senior Accounting and Reporting Specialist

Senior Accounting and Reporting Specialist

CGIMontreal, Canada
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$80,000.00–CA$98,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Position Description :

The Senior Consultant of Financial Business Services (FBS) is an accounting expert and a consultant to the local FBS team to deliver standard general accounting support to the legal entity. As senior consultant in the FBS team, you will be responsible for the accounting and documentation of the balance sheet, local financial statements, audits, local taxation, statistical reporting and consultant for accounting treatment, reporting directly to the Manager FBS.

Your future duties and responsibilities :

  • Produce statutory financial statements and assistance with external auditors
  • Involvement in SOX and various compliance accounting (indirect taxes, payroll, statutory FS)
  • Accurate and timely submission of tax declarations
  • Accurate and completeness of all asset and liability accounts, in accordance with IFRS and local GAAP
  • Demonstrate technical accounting expertise and knowledge of accounting standards, both IFRS and local GAAP.
  • Continuous process improvement of Finance & Accounting services
  • Develop the local FBS finance team
  • Work closely with the Manager FBS and be a delegate.
  • Keep up-to-date with local compliances and assess relevance for the legal entity
  • Liaising with local customs, other departments and SEZ officials for getting various statutory approvals

Functional / Technical

  • Excellent knowledge of IFRS and local GAAP
  • Able to set up financial statement, cash-flow, and tax preparation & filing
  • Good knowledge of local tax and financial compliance
  • Knowledgeable in ERP systems
  • MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams)
  • Oracle finance applications knowledge is considered an asset
  • Behavioral

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Customer Focused, want-to-help attitude
  • Business Partner
  • Strong Communicator
  • Process oriented
  • Tolerance of ambiguity
  • Highly Organized
  • Autonomous & Flexible
  • respect for deadlines
  • Required qualifications to be successful in this role :

  • University Degree and CPA (CPA auditor title will be given preference)
  • Fluent in the English Language (written and spoken) is required
  • Working in a complex high volume multi-site international services organization or within an audit firm
  • Working with auditors and / or internal controls within a SOX control environment
  • Managing financial teams
  • Providing coaching and training to various stakeholders
  • Experience, proficiency and comfort in communicating and working effectively at various levels
  • Proven experience in continuous process improvement in a finance environment
  • Experience in the a Service industry is preferred
  • Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.