Senior Accountant

Sun Gro Horticulture; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading horticultural company in North America is seeking an accountant to join their financial team. This position involves preparing financial statements, enhancing internal controls, and ensuring compliance with corporate taxes. The ideal candidate will have a degree in finance or accounting, strong analytical skills, and be proficient in accounting software including Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, or Accounting or CPA required.
• Accounting/finance experience required, preferably in Consumer-Packaged Goods.
• Strong understanding of accounting theory.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly financial statements as per IFRS for Canada.
• Ensure GL accounts are reconciled monthly.
• Assist in corporate income tax preparations for Canadian entities.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or Accounting

CPA Accounting designation

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Sun Gro Horticultureis one of the most prominent North American horticultural companies, employing over 800 staff and serving customers worldwide. Since its humble beginnings in 1929, it has become the leading supplier of soilless growing mixes to North America’s top 100 greenhouse and nursery growers, shipping over 70,000 truckloads of product annually. Sun Gro products are made to exacting standards and conform to high product quality and performance criteria.

Sun Gro Horticulturerecognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. The primary goal of Sun Gro is to promote individual employees’ sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with Sun Gro Horticulture. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, Sun Gro.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

This position will report to the Director of Accounting and Corporate Controller and assist in managing accounting and reporting for SunGro’s Canada business. The person will be responsible preparing monthly financial package for Canada business including additional activities listed below.

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS:

• Ensure the timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual Canadian business financial statements as per IFRS and send it to the US Manager for Consolidation
• Ensure that all Canadian GL accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis
• Assist the Director of Accounting in preparing responses to IA audit report comments and findings and also follow up about their completion with different teams
• Proactively seek continuous enhancement in internal controls over business and financial transactions and financial reporting. Assist in reviewing and completing internal controls and assist in preparing and completing process documentation
• Assist in preparation of paperwork for corporate income taxes related to Canadian entities
• Complete monthly sales tax return filing for Canadian business and do sales tax reconciliation
• Assist Director of Accounting in maintaining transfer pricing documentation and other transfer pricing compliance activities
• Continuously evaluate accounting processes and systems to identify areas for improvement and efficiency gains
• Ad-hoc analysis and support as requested by management

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Be a positive, contributing team member
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Have excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Have excellent communication skills
• Proficient with technology. Computer skills a must, specific proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, filters), Word, PowerPoint, Internet and email.
• Highly motivated with strong analytical, planning, problem-solving and time management skills.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily supervision
• Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of employees, management, and external parties.
• Strong fact based decision making skills – supports decisions with data and uses data to solve problems
• Ability to establish plans – set clear, measurable goals, anticipating roadblocks and adjusts for problems, can accurate assess the length and difficulty of tasks.
• Change champion – able to communicate changes, remove obstacles and understand who needs to be involved in driving changes.
• Strong execution skills – can provide support without removing responsibility, monitors progress to ensure achievement of goals, coordinate with other work groups.
• Possesses the ability to strategize and solve problems, working directly with operations.
• Display a willingness to take on a broad range of duties and projects and comfortable with a flexible, hands on approach.
• Strong customer focus - includes the ability to balance the needs of the customer with the needs of the business as well as fostering a strong customer focus mindset.
• Excels in an environment that fosters process improvement and challenges status quo to eliminate non-value added work.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or Accounting or CPA Accounting designation required
• Accounting/finance experience required, experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods industry preferred
• Strong understanding of accounting theory and transactions

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Office; limited travel within North America required