Accounting Technician

Kontron Europe; Boisbriand; Hybrid; CAD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation policy

Collective insurance program

RRSP program with company contribution

Work from home option

Professional development & training

Job summary

Kontron Canada is seeking an Accounting Technician to manage invoices, reconciliations, and financial reporting. You will handle bank reconciliations in multiple currencies, process journal entries, and support month-end and year-end closings within the accounts payable function.

The role requires a college accounting diploma, 7+ years of experience, strong Excel skills, and fluent French with functional English. SAP experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• College diploma in accounting or equivalent.
• Ideally more than 7 years of experience.
• Proficiency with Excel.
• Languages: French and functional English (communication with suppliers and Kontron group).
• SAP knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Post vendor invoices.
• Reconcile all transactions related to subcontractors to ensure accuracy of inventory, accounts payable and accounts receivable for products.
• Reconcile daily all bank accounts and ensure funds in each currency; prepare journal entries for reconciliations.
• Issue checks and wire transfers.
• Reconcile suppliers statements of account and respond to their requests.
• Prepare TPS and TVQ reports.
• Prepare month-end reports and year-end closing of accounts payable.
• Balance GR/IR account.
• Responsible for the fixed assets ledger and follow-up on capital budgets.
• Month-end analysis for material requisition and other analyses (e.g., freight expenses).
• Perform various reconciliations: petty cash, credit cards, and expense reports.

Skills

Excel

French

Functional English

Education

College diploma in accounting

Tools

SAP

Job description

Do you want to be at the heart of financial operations? Join Kontron Canada as an Accounting Technician to manage, analyze, and optimize our accounts with rigor and impact.

Kontron's embedded computing systems interact with a wide variety of devices in rugged environments such as avionics, transportation, defense, and telecommunications.

To get a taste of the work environment at Kontron Canada, watch the following video in French: https://youtu.be/YQQIQ_8R_yo

An Overview Of The Challenges Ahead

• You will post Vendor invoices;
• You will reconcile all transactions related to subcontrators to ensure the accurancy of the inventory, accounts payables and accounts receivable related to the products;
• You will reconcile daily all the bank accounts and ensure that all the money needed is available in each currency. You will prepare all journal entries related to the reconciliation;
• You will issue the checks and wire transfers;
• You will make the conciliation of the suppliers statements of account and answer their requests;
• You will prepare TPS and TVQ reports;
• You will prepare month-end reports and the year-end closing of accounts payable section;
• You will balance GR/IR account;
• You will be responsible of the fixed assets ledger and of the follow up on the capital budgets;
• You will do the month-end analysis for the material requisition and other analysis (ex: Freight expenses);
• Finally, you will perform various reconciliations: petty cash, credit cards and statements of account and expense reports.

You Will Impress Us If You Have

• Education: College diploma option accounting;
• Experience: Ideally more than 7 years;
• Knowledge: Excel;
• Languages: French and functional English; Functional English is required due to various multidisciplinary tasks including notably communications with suppliers, the corporate and sister companies in the Kontron group;
• Asset: SAP;

How About An Exceptional Work Environment Including

• A competitive salary;
• A generous vacation policy and a large number of personal days;
• An advantageous collective insurance program, including telemedecine;
• A collective RRSP program in which Kontron Canada contributes;
• Good balance between work-family-personal life, including working from home if desired;
• Social and sports activities, including access to a volleyball and soccer field;
• Various training for your professional development;
• A stimulating career path in various sectors of activity;
• Dedicated days for individual and team innovation projects;
• A modern facility with state of the art equipment;
• And much more...