Senior Accountant - Canada and Asia Pac

Senior Financial Accountant Canada and Asia Pac

This is a business-critical role requiring the successful individual to deliver operational excellence across their countries. The environment compliments a driven individual who is ambitious, innovative, proactive, and able to deliver.

Description & Key responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for P&L and balance sheet for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand including T&E, Payroll, Credit Card, Cash, and Intercompany accounting for Asia Pac.
• Preparing the month end close, assisting with leading commentary at country/functional/regional level and reporting within deadlines.
• Delivering high quality reporting by reviewing and preparing the monthly management accounts.
• Preparing full Balance Sheet reconciliations monthly.
• Assisting with the intercompany processing and reconciliation.
• Liaising with the auditors for the Groups audit engagement and annual and periodic statutory audits.
• Leading ongoing country compliance and ensuring robust control environment is in place across the regions.
• Provide analytics about trends.
• Preparing the production of the statutory accounts under local GAAP and/or liaising with external providers.
• Interacting with Tax for all indirect and direct tax compliance and reporting.
• Liaising with the FP&A team for budget and forecast preparation and actual detailed analysis.
• Supporting the overall improvements of ERP, systems, processes, and procedures.
• Ensuring all reports are prepared in line with timetable and constantly striving to improve reporting.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency of existing processes and propose improvements to streamline the use of key business metrics.
• Other ad hoc roles/tasks as deemed necessary.

The Successful Candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• CPA is a plus.
• Work experience as an accountant with strong working knowledge of P&L, balance sheet, intercompany accounting, auditing, budgeting, and forecasting.
• A solid understanding of internal control design and operational efficiency.
• Strong understanding and application of accounting principles under US GAAP, IFRS and Local GAAP.
• USGAAP/IFRS/ understanding, and strong controls skill set
• Extensive ERP Experience with Microsoft D365 being an advantage.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• International experience a plus.
• Manufacturing industry experience is a plus.
• A keen sense of attention to detail and an ability to prioritize tasks on multiple projects.
• Ease with developing relationships among various levels of an organisation.
• Impeccable written and verbal communication.
• Highly effective analytical skills and strong, hands-on experience.
• Able to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.