Plant Accountant/Contract

Leggett & Platt; London; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Pension plan

RRSP option

Job summary

Leggett & Platt, a global manufacturing leader, seeks a Plant Accountant in Ontario to lead branch accounting, close the books, and ensure internal controls and regulatory compliance. This role supports corporate reporting, tax accounting, and audits, contributing to accurate financial data and timely insights.

Join our team for a comprehensive benefits package including pension and RRSP options, with a commitment to integrity and high performance.

Qualifications

• Lead branch accounting activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, review and approval of financial statements, and ensuring proper internal controls.
• Manage the financial close process and ensure deadlines are met with accuracy and compliance.
• Perform local tax accounting and reporting, ensuring all tax-related requirements are met.
• Complete corporate reporting requirements, both ongoing and ad hoc.
• Maintain financial compliance with corporate and regulatory standards, including US GAAP and local statutory requirements.
• Ensure the accuracy of financial data and support internal and external audits.
• Respond to ad hoc requests and reporting requirements as necessary.

Job description

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett Dynamics' overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett Dynamics' inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett & Platt: https://leggett.com/history

So, what will you be doing as a Plant Accountant?

To Be Successful In This Role, You’ll Need

• Lead branch accounting activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, review and approval of financial statements, and ensuring proper internal controls.
• Manage the financial close process and ensure deadlines are met with accuracy and compliance.
• Perform local tax accounting and reporting, ensuring all tax-related requirements are met.
• Complete corporate reporting requirements, both ongoing and ad hoc.
• Maintain financial compliance with corporate and regulatory standards, including US GAAP and local statutory requirements.
• Ensure the accuracy of financial data and support internal and external audits.
• Respond to ad hoc requests and report requirements as necessary.

Compensation

Salary is $70,000.00.

In addition, we offer Great benefits including prescription, dental, optical, a company sponsored registered pension plan, optional RRSP, and more!

Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all. Leggett & Platt is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veteran status, and more. Join us!

We welcome and encourage applications if you meet the minimum qualifications. Even if you do not meet the preferred qualifications, we’d love the opportunity to consider you.

For more information about how we handle your personal data in connection with our recruiting processes, please refer to the Recruiting Privacy Notice on the “Privacy Notice” tab located at http://privacy.leggett.com

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, and all its Canadian affiliates value the diversity of skills, knowledge, and perspectives our employees bring to our workplace. We believe the presence in our workforce of individuals with characteristics protected under local human rights legislation, including but not limited to females, minorities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, persons from all faiths and national origins and of all colors reward us with greater talent, new ideas and unique perspectives.

It is therefore our policy to recruit, hire, promote, transfer, administer benefits and handle all other conditions of employment in a non-discriminatory manner without discrimination regarding any protected status under local human rights legislation. Our Chief Executive Officer has requested that all of our employees make equal opportunity a priority.

We are committed to workplace accessibility and accommodation of persons with disabilities. Should you have any need for accommodation at any stage of the hiring or recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to provide appropriate accommodation or address any accessibility‑related needs. This information will be handled as confidentially as practical. You are welcome to contact a member of our Corporate Employee Relations staff at 417-358-8131 if you need assistance to apply, wish to discuss an accommodation, or have questions about this notice.