Plant Accountant

耐克森中国; Markham; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexans Canada Inc.-Markham is seeking a Plant Accountant to support the Fergus, Weyburn and Trenton plants with costing, inventory valuation and KPI reporting. You will report to the Senior Accounting Manager and help ensure accurate reporting and timely closes.

Key duties include monitoring KPIs, month-end close activities, payroll journals, inventory counts, SAP asset creation, depreciation, and comprehensive reports to support financial and operational performance.

Qualifications

• University or college degree in Business, finance/accounting.
• CMA designation highly preferred.
• 3–5 years accounting experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Accounts payable experience is an asset.
• Strong understanding of controlling and accounting principles.
• Ability to learn process and systems improvements.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor and analyse KPIs such as variances and scrap.
• Assist with month-end close activities including reconciliations and journal entries.
• Maintain supporting documentation for accounting transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Assist with inventory counts and quarterly audits.
• Perform monthly scrap analysis and reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly plant cost reporting and dashboards.
• Support audit or tax requests as required.
• Handle payroll journal entries and bank reconciliations.
• Create assets in SAP for capital expenditures and run depreciation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

University or College degree in Business, finance/accounting

CMA designation (highly preferred)

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Plant Accountant

Posting Start Date: 7/19/26

Finance

Canada

Nexans Canada Inc.-Markham

Full Time

Junior professional – up to 5 years

ID: 80592

Position Overview

As a Plant Accountant, you will report directly to the Senior Accounting Manager and support the plants in providing accurate and timely reporting on results and KPIs for the Fergus, Weyburn, and Trenton plant. The position ensures accurate costing, inventory valuation, and control of flows.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor and analyse details in all industrial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as manufacturing variances and scrap
• Assist with month‑end close activities as it relates to reconciliations and journal entries
• Maintains supporting documentation of accounting transactions, ensures its completeness, accuracy and compliance with legal and tax rules
• Assist with inventory counts
• Perform monthly scrap analysis and reconciliations
• Monthly KPI industrial dashboard for Fergus, Weyburn and Trenton
• Assisting with audit or tax requests
• Weekly and Bi‑Weekly payroll journal entries for Fergus and Weyburn
• Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Union remittance for Weyburn
• Monthly Bank Reconciliations
• Responsible for capital expenditure process for Grid & Connect
• Creating and closing internal orders in SAP
• Creating assets in SAP for capital expenditures
• Running Monthly depreciation
• Monthly Reconciliation of EzCapex to HFM
• Monthly survey of Manufacturing for G&C for Statistics Canada
• Run and Monitor the Monthly CO Close Cockpit process
• Product Costing
• Manual adjustments in the Material Ledger
• Responsible for the preparation of recurring or specific “on‑demand” reports to support financial and operational performance analysis
• Improve financial reporting, month end reporting, production reporting, standard costing, and inventory control.
• Track and report factory (IPC) and warehouse spending (IME)

Qualifications

• University or College degree in Business, finance/accounting
• Professional designation (CMA highly preferred)
• A minimum of 3-5 years accounting experience (preferably in a manufacturing environment)
• Accounts payable experience is an asset
• Very good understanding of controlling and accounting principles
• Ability to learn process and systems improvements
• Independent, organized and problem‑solving mindset
• Proactive, eager to learn and adaptable to change
• Good communication and facilitation skills
• Excellent knowledge of Excel (i.e. VLOOKUP, SUMIFS, pivot tables)

Type of Position: New position

Use of AI: None

Salary: [$80,000.00 per annum to $85,000.00 per annum]

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