Senior Corporate Accountant

Crestpoint Real Estate Investments; Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial group in Toronto seeks a Senior Corporate Accountant to join their team. This challenging position involves financial reporting to senior leadership, cash management, and preparing comprehensive financial statements. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, a CPA designation, and experience in consolidated financial statements preparation.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of related work experience, including preparing consolidated financial statements.
• Knowledge of IFRS and ASPE is critical.
• Self-motivated and able to prioritize responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze financial statements and cash flow statements.
• Manage cash and bank reconciliations.
• Facilitate month and quarter end closings accurately.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Communication skills

Logical thinking

Education

Commerce or business degree with a concentration in accounting or finance

Canadian CPA designation or equivalent

Tools

MS Excel

Yardi

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd.

Join our Toronto-based accounting team as a Senior Corporate Accountant . This is a great opportunity if you are an established professional accountant with several years of progressive experience under your belt. We are looking for someone that takes pride in producing high quality work and understands the importance of accurate information as the basis for effective decision-making. Our organizational structure is more complex than most so pulling all our financial information together is no simple task but you like to go outside your comfort zone to learn new things.

What You Will Be Doing

• Reports to the Controller Affiliates and work as part of the team that delivers financial reporting and analysis to the firms senior leadership team
• Cash management and bank reconciliations
• Preparing period-end journal entries and supporting working papers
• Facilitating timely and accurate month and quarter end closings including working with co-workers from other departments to acquire required financial information
• Preparing individual financial statements including cash flow statements and notes to financial statements
• Preparing consolidated financial statements
• Preparing and assembling materials for board meetings
• Collecting data for audits and assisting external financial statement auditors
• Preparing and filing working capital forms G / HST & QST returns corporate income tax returns and partnership information returns
• Dealing with routine inquiries from taxation authorities such as CRA and Revenue Qubec
• Preparing budgets including consultations with members of management

What You Bring

• Undergraduate degree preferably a commerce or business degree with a concentration in accounting or finance
• Canadian CPA designation or equivalent
• 3 to 5 years of related work experience including experience preparing consolidated financial statements
• Knowledgeable with respect to both IFRS and ASPE
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong computer skills with advanced knowledge of MS Excel and accounting software preferably Yardi and / or Microsoft Dynamics
• Proven ability to think logically and problem solve effectively
• Ability to be self-motivated to take initiative and prioritize responsibilities
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently under pressure dealing with changes and interruptions while maintaining strict deadlines

About Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group

Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. (CC&LFG) provides a broad range of traditional and alternative investment products and services to individuals advisors and institutional investors. Our business comprises of eleven institutional investment affiliates that are responsible for investment decision making and client service as well as distribution affiliates including Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital which provides multi-asset class investment solutions and Connor Clark & Lunn Funds which distributes single-strategy investments to individual investors. CC&LFG partners with each of its affiliates by contributing world class operations product development expertise broad distribution and business management. We have grown from $29 billion in assets and 200 people in 2008 to approximately $110 billion in assets and over 800 people today. This has been accompanied by a high level of change in technology types of assets managed trading activity and geographic growth. As we look forward we can see both opportunities and challenges for further growth that only reinforce our commitment to attracting retaining and motivating the most talented people.

This is best achieved by :

• A High-Quality Environment : To work with people who we hold in high regard; to enjoy the time that we spend at work; to focus on productive activities without the distraction of politics and bureaucracy; to treat each other with respect.
• An Opportunity to Succeed : To do work that has value and which presents the opportunity for professional growth and development.
• Recognition and Reward : To recognize each persons contribution and to align compensation with contribution.

CC&L is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender ethnicity religion sexual orientation or expression disability or age.

We thank all applicants in advance but only those candidates short-listed for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls or recruitment agencies will be accepted.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Business Intelligence,Bidding,Accounts Assistant Credit Control,Account Development,Content Development,Lab Testing

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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