Senior Accountant - Creative Financial Staffing

Senior Accountant

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

We have been engaged by a client in the food industry to secure a Sr. Accountant with a path to leadership role intended. This Sr. Accountant role offers high visibility to Management and the Executive Directors. It is with a large and thriving large-size organization, now expanding their footprint.

WHY CONSIDER THIS SENIOR ACCOUNTANT ROLE?

• This client typically promotes from within - and they have plans for growth as they are now expanding their international footprint, no travel is required yet exposure to bring new locations on to the accounting ERP systems and methods used in the U.S.
• In this bonus potential position, you will have a great work/life balance, hybrid work model and have generous PTO and receive a 401K match which is sizable.
• The involvement will be dynamic as they have moved away from silos years ago and collaborate with FP&A and other Accounting teams.
• Much interaction and systems initiatives to continually work better and smarter will be led by this Sr. Accountant.

• Very collaborative, friendly and team focused group
• Competitive salary and benefits

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR ACCOUNTANT:

• This role will be involved in reporting for their International accounting on SAP, IFRS as they will be initially focused on the Canadian books and more will come in the way of other countries.
• Some system testing and implementation related work as they are bringing in S4.
• Will report into a new manager that started in Spring who is a systems manager and doing the accounting for international as well. Volume is picking up thus the reason for this need.
• Phase one of the implementation goes live in Feb. Yet with agile and overlapping timelines for Phase two the Manager will need this Sr. Accountant to take this international accounting work off his plate.
• There will be consolidations work, currently they have 13 legal entities.
• Manage foreign currency transactions which apply to the department.
• Assist in interviewing and hiring Staff Accountants as needed to include instruction and training departmental employees on correct methods and procedures in conformity to GAAP.
• SAP accounting reconciliations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE SENIOR ACCOUNTANT ROLE:

• BS in Accounting or finance
• CPA is a must
• At least 3 years of experience in general accounting with IFRS and consolidations desired
• ERP systems skills a plus (Oracle or SAP preferred)
• Distribution, Manufacturing or Retail industry experience desired.