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Sr. Accountant

Tata Consumer Products – North America

Toronto

On-site

CAD 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company in the FMCG sector is seeking a Finance professional to support its Canadian operations. The role involves financial reporting, performance analysis, and collaboration with various teams to ensure compliance and efficiency in financial processes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the CPG environment and proficiency in SAP S/4 Hana.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant work experience in CPG environment.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Overseeing all financial reporting aspects of the Canadian operation.
  • Analyzing transactions and creating journal entries.
  • Participating in internal and external audits.

Skills

Analytical Skills
Communication
Problem-Solving
Collaboration
Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting
CPA (or working towards designation)

Tools

SAP S/4 Hana
Microsoft Office

Job description

At the core of Tata Consumer Products' business approach lie six strategic pillars that serve as the foundation for its growth and success: Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business, Driving Digital and Innovation, Unlocking Synergies, Creating a Future-Ready Organization, Exploring New Opportunities and Embedding Sustainability.

This job opportunity closely aligns with three of these key strategic pillars: Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business, Unlocking Synergies and Creating a Future Ready Organization. Tata Consumer Products is on a journey to become a multi category Premier FMCG company, and this role plays a key part in driving and supporting this for Canada. It is a critical co-pilot to the Canadian Finance, Sales & Marketing teams as well as Group Finance team, ensuring they receive high level financial support, insight, and challenge. It also plays a crucial role in overseeing all financial reporting aspects of the Canadian operation, to ensure all financial accounting and reporting requirements are met, and the financial controls and processes that sit behind them are fit-for-purpose.

Financial Accounting & Reporting

  • Month End for the Canadian business in line with Group accounting policies and requirements
  • Primarily responsible to assist in the monthly closing process
  • Analyzing transactions, reviewing general ledger accounts, creating journal entries
  • Analyzing and reconciling assigned accounts (bank reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations, accrual reconciliations, prepaid tracking/reconciliation) and other analysis to support and execute the financial close process
  • Maintaining timely, accurate financial records and performing financial analysis
  • Reconciling sub-ledgers to general ledgers, identifying, and solving issues creating any variances
  • Assisting with internal and external reporting
  • Reconciliation and timely submission of HST and Non-Resident taxes
  • Treasury support (intercompany loans, quarterly interest)
  • Preparation of monthly reporting packs and presentation to various stakeholders
  • Monthly P&L and volumes confirmed between SAP and Prophix (budgeting/LE software)
  • Coding of invoices in AP tracking software
  • Quarter End and Year End external audit and additional disclosure deliverables
  • Participating in internal and external audits, providing support and financial analysis as required
  • Participating in ad hoc reporting and what-if analysis as directed and completing special projects as assigned


Performance Reporting & Analysis

  • Monthly performance packs and other KPI reports and dashboards
  • Analysis and Insights to identify key trends, issues and opportunities
  • Monthly review of accrual accounts


Financial Planning & Decision Support

  • Maintaining up to date factor tables and preparing uploads for the budget preparation process
  • Work closely with Controller during budget preparation to validate variable factors by customer and product
  • Validation of budget inputs
  • Latest estimate support (balance sheet / working capital tracking)
  • Detailed variance analysis (versus budget, latest estimates and prior year actuals) to assist in preparation of budget reporting packs
  • Financial models and other financial support for strategic decision-making, ad hoc projects


Financial Processes & Controls

  • Work with various stakeholders, including Internal and External Auditors, to ensure the Canadian business complies to efficient and effective financial processes and controls appropriate to the risk environment


Product Costing & Cost Control

  • Year over year variance analysis for cost components
  • Additional cost analysis as needed


Financial Systems & Digitization

  • SAP S/4 Hana system focus, master data process, new product reviews ensuring proper setup in SAP
  • Partner with the Digital team to deliver automation and digital solutions for Canada finance


Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant work experience, in CPG environment
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, CPA (or working towards designation)
  • Experience using SAP S/4 Hana
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, with advanced Excel skills
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, organisation skills and self- motivated and fast learning professional
  • Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset and approach to processes
  • Positive mindset and flexibility to adapt in a dynamic and demanding growth environment
  • Desire to take responsibility and ownership and make a difference
  • Highly numerate and financially literate
  • Clear understanding of accounting guidance and processes in consumer products
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