Senior Accountant

Express Employment Professionals - Cincinnati East; Cambridge; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Express Employment Professionals - Cincinnati East in Cambridge, Ontario is seeking a Senior Accountant to work directly with our Controller across accounting, reporting, payments, team coordination, process improvement and automation.

This role goes beyond traditional accounting, owning key tasks, reviewing others, investigating discrepancies, and improving recurring processes before escalation. Strong Excel and CPA progress are required, with 3+ years of experience and a hands‑on approach.

Qualifications

• CPA designation or credible progress toward CPA.
• 3+ years in accounting or finance with month-end close.
• Strong Excel and data handling skills.
• Experience reviewing or improving work of others.
• Familiarity with AI or automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end and year-end close activities and schedules.
• Perform balance-sheet reviews, reconciliations and cash controls.
• Investigate accounting discrepancies and root causes.
• Coordinate accounting-team work, deadlines and issues.
• Provide management reporting and variance analysis.
• Support payments, treasury, audits, tax, budgeting and forecasting.
• Lead process improvement using Excel, AI and automation.
• Define components of larger finance, systems and company‑wide projects.

Skills

CPA designation

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Automation mindset

Leadership / team coordination

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

CPA designation or progress toward CPA

CFE completion or credible progress toward CPA

Tools

Excel

AI/Automation tools

Finance ERP

Job description

Senior Accountant, Finance Operations & Automation

Compensation: $80,000 to $100,000 per year
Employment: Full-time, permanent
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, 100% in office

We are redesigning how finance operates through stronger controls, fewer manual processes, better systems and faster resolution of recurring problems.

We are hiring a Senior Accountant to work directly with our Controller across accounting, reporting, payments, team coordination, process improvement and automation.

This is broader than a traditional Senior Accountant position. You will own important accounting work, review and coordinate the work of others, investigate what does not make sense and improve recurring processes before they reach the Controller.

What You Will Own

• Assigned month-end and year-end close activities, material entries and financial-statement schedules
• Balance-sheet reviews, including reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, loan accounting and cash controls
• Investigation and root-cause resolution of accounting discrepancies
• Review and coordination of accounting-team work, deadlines and outstanding issues
• Management reporting, variance analysis and clear explanations of financial results
• Support for payments, treasury, audits, tax, budgeting and forecasting
• Process improvement using advanced Excel, AI and practical automation
• Defined components of larger finance, systems and company-wide projects

What You Bring

• At least three years of progressive accounting or finance experience
• A CPA designation, successful CFE completion or credible progress toward CPA
• Hands-on experience with financial statements, journal entries, reconciliations, accruals and month-end close
• Strong Excel capability and confidence working through imperfect data
• Experience reviewing or improving the work of others
• Practical experience using AI or automation tools and validating their output
• The ability to work full-time from our Cambridge office

This role will suit someone who wants broader responsibility, learns quickly, accepts direct feedback and cares about the final outcome, not merely completing an assigned step.

Strong performance will lead to increasingly important work, broader authority and meaningful exposure across accounting, finance operations, systems and business execution.