General Accountant

Bayer AG; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer AG is seeking a General Accountant based in Mississauga, ON. This permanent full-time role involves managing financial statements, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong accounting background with a focus on IFRS, alongside excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and rewards package.

Work-life flexibility programs, including flex hours.

Career development and global opportunities.

Employee discounts and wellness offerings.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional experience in Accounting or related fields.
• CPA designation preferred.
• Strong IFRS technical accounting background.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex General Ledger and Financial Reporting accounting functions.
• Ensure timely delivery of financial statements and reporting of business.
• Support global internal audit processes and provide necessary documentation.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

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At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

General Accountant

Reporting to the Head of General Ledger & Reporting, this position manages the proper accounting treatment on various complex accounting transactions, ensures appropriate financial statement presentation, and partners closely with various Country Cluster business operations. Specifically, this role will provide accounting support with focus on the Crop Science division, but responsibilities may also extend to Enabling and other divisional topics to facilitate any other assignments occurring in a Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) organization.

This position is also responsible for supporting global internal ICS audit process, coordinating with internal stakeholders to organize, simplify and deliver audit requests.

The responsibilities of General Accountant are to assist in the completion of the external audit for both the Bayer financial statements and those of Bayer’s sponsored post-employment benefit plans.

Bayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a permanent full-time position based out of Mississauga, ON.

What you will do:

• Manage complex General Ledger and Financial Reporting accounting functions for Cluster legal entities, and act as primary liaison to GBS (service center) Finance organization
• Exercise professional judgement in assessing the relevant data quality via account reconciliation and plausibility checks and initiate corrective measures if necessary
• Ensure timely and complete delivery of the financial statements and reporting of business and provide information for consolidation. This also includes the data quality (plausibility checks) of activities performed in Service Centers/Hubs
• Perform manual General Ledger postings in accordance with internal policies and processes.
• Assess Accounting/IFRS current practices and procedures. This involves research of relevant accounting topics under IFRS guidelines
• Contribute to business related GL and Accounting activities for complex accounting topics such as financial instruments, goodwill & impairment, pensions, and M&A related transactions to ensure IFRS compliance
• Coordinate relevant and material accounting activities between local Business functions, Global Accounting and GBS Finance teams to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the information provided to support Business decisions
• Strive to achieve efficiencies and promote new ways of working via cross-functional collaboration and meaningful project contributions

Reporting:

• Maintain and implement accounting procedures and processes in accordance with IFRS and internal guidelines. Identify and review gaps in processes and develop recommendations.
• Provide timely and accurate analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results.
• Review quarterly and annual financial results with Head of Accounting as well as Local and Global management
• Prepare and report Cluster legal entity year-end financial statements and quarterly Flux analysis
• Manage the accounting activities of Cluster legal entities, including tax reporting
• Support Tax team with responses to CRA inquiries and other Tax relevant requests
• Execute Month end General Ledger close and internal control processes. This involves close collaboration and coordination with global GBS teams to ensure all deadlines are met
• Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports and analysis
• Prepare and present at quarterly business update meetings with divisional finance business partners
• Solve any issues out of BayRep consolidation tool validation, reconcile statements, prepare OMI and comments, identify and solve issues and perform adjusting entries
• Key member of work team for drafting of financial statements of the Bayer Canada Pension plan.

Audit & Other:

• Participate in audit testing activities of external auditors ensuring maximum efficiency and effectiveness
• Participate directly with Risk Management to assist in the pre work for global internal audits and subsequently resolve all internal audit queries
• Assess all new capital projects for international and internal reporting compliance and collaborate with GBS to resolve any accounting issues related to conversion topics
• Take on topics outside of core scope including asset accounting, management (cost) accounting, and other topics as they arise.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field with 3-5 years of professional experience in Accounting, Finance, Controlling, Auditing or similar fields
• CPA Designation preferred
• Strong IFRS technical accounting background
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Competence to grasp complex subject matters and deduce operational activities
• Strong proficiency in MS applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Advanced SAP/ DataOne / BI knowledge, preferred, but not required
• Experience working in highly matrixed and global environments
• Proven ability to work in a team and foster a collaborative environment
• Outcome focused, proactively collaborates with accountability and co-creates solutions with transparency
• Acts and learns quickly, while delivering concrete results on time
• Respects differences and embraces inclusion through actions and behaviours

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and rewards package.
• Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture.
• Career development and global opportunities.
• Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings.

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.

All referral candidates must first be submitted via our internal referral system by a current Bayer employee in order to participate in the referral program. Once a Bayer employee has successfully referred you in our system, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how to complete your application.

This posting will be available for application until at least June 27, 2025.

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