SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

SureWerx; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company, SureWerx, seeks a full-time Senior Accountant to handle accounting transactions and improve processes. In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with teams, manage financial records, and ensure compliance with GAAP, contributing to the growth of the company and its innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles.
• Self-starter with strong ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and processing transactions for inventory cycle.
• Preparing and posting payroll and ad-hoc journal entries.
• Ensuring compliance with accounting standards.

Skills

Accounting experience

Analytical abilities

Advanced Excel skills

Interpersonal skills

ERP systems

Education

CPA designation preferred

Job description

SureWerx is a leading manufacturer of innovative safety, tool, and equipment products and solutions. Since 1957, we've been trusted to keep all who use our products safe in even the most challenging environments. Today, our growing family of world-leading brands serves customers and partners across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

At SureWerx, you'll have the opportunity to challenge yourself in a supportive, growth-oriented culture of industry leaders. You’ll help chart our future as we continue to expand into new products, services, and markets. We’ll invest in your career development, enabling you to grow and succeed.

We are looking for a full-time Senior Accountant. This position reports to the Controller. This role is responsible for the company's accounting transactions, including reviewing, analyzing, and posting general ledger transactions, executing monthly close procedures in compliance with GAAP, reviewing and updating account reconciliations, and ensuring accuracy in general ledger coding. Additionally, the position involves interacting with auditors and management, recording complex transactions, and contributing to process improvements. The candidate will collaborate with various teams to achieve departmental goals and enhance accounting and reporting automation.

This is a hybrid role with a minimum requirement to work 2 days in the Coquitlam office.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and processing transactions for the complete inventory cycle
• Processing payments for inventory vendors and associated fees
• Validating the proper application of vendor payments
• Initializing, setting up, and administering electronic bank payments
• Managing daily banking activities and preparing monthly bank reconciliations
• Processing foreign currency transactions
• Ensuring all daily sales transactions are properly posted and reconciled to the general ledger
• Managing the fixed assets continuity schedule
• Reconciliation of general ledger and subledger accounts
• Preparing and posting payroll and ad-hoc journal entries
• Preparing monthly and annual working papers and liaising with external auditors
• Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of accounting experience
• Preference for CPA designation or working towards a CPA designation
• Strong understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
• Ability to meet critical business deadlines
• Skilled with ERP systems
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience working in a dynamic, changing, and fast-growing company environment
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with strong ethical standards
• Attentive, able to work independently and prioritize tasks
• Highly skilled with exceptional analytical and quantitative abilities
• Quick learner, collaborative, bright, agile, and team-oriented

SureWerx is committed to fostering equal opportunities and providing an inclusive, respectful working environment where all employees can thrive. We aim to attract and retain a diverse workforce that reflects and celebrates the communities we serve. We encourage applications from women, LGBTQ+ individuals, Indigenous Peoples, people of color, persons with disabilities, and neurodiverse individuals. Please inform our HR team if any accommodations are needed during the recruitment process.

Accommodation will be provided upon request during recruitment. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only qualified candidates will be contacted.