Senior Finance Consultant

Engage Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Engage Recruitment seeks a proactive Senior Finance Consultant to lead accounting processes, strengthen governance, and drive continuous improvement across a multi-entity organization in Toronto. This contract role runs until mid-April 2027.

You will oversee month-end close, consolidation entries, intercompany activity, and scalable reporting, partnering with finance leaders to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• 4–6 years progressive accounting experience in multi-entity environments.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and experience preparing consolidated financial statements.
• Experience with accounting for acquisitions.
• Hands-on consolidation accounting, inter‑company transactions, and equity accounting.
• Demonstrated success designing or improving accounting processes, controls, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience collaborating across multiple business units and managing competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the accounting and reporting for subsidiaries, equity investments, and intercompany activities, ensuring timely and accurate period-end close.
• Prepare and review consolidation entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for balance sheet accounts.
• Analyze financial results to identify unusual transactions, accounting issues, and emerging business risks.
• Research complex accounting matters, prepare technical accounting documentation, and support implementation of new accounting guidance.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors by providing supporting documentation and responding to audit inquiries.
• Evaluate financial reporting controls across multiple legal entities, identifying risks and recommending practical improvements.
• Partner with finance teams and business leaders to strengthen internal controls and ensure compliance with corporate policies and reporting standards.
• Support ongoing monitoring of the organization’s internal control environment and coordinate control activities with internal audit.
• Provide accounting guidance for new business initiatives, acquisitions, integrations, and organizational changes.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Consolidation

Intercompany

Advanced Excel

ERP systems

Audit support

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

Tools

Dynamics

Workday

Oracle

NetSuite

Job description

We’re looking for a proactive accounting leader who enjoys building processes, solving complex accounting challenges, and driving continuous improvement. This role offers the opportunity to shape key areas of the corporate accounting function while partnering with finance leaders across a multi-entity organization.

As a Senior Finance Consultant, you will oversee month-end activities, strengthen governance and financial controls, support technical accounting matters, and develop scalable reporting processes for subsidiaries and strategic investments. Working closely with senior leadership, you will play a key role in improving financial oversight and enhancing the efficiency of the accounting function.

This is a contract role until mid-April 2027.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Manage the accounting and reporting for subsidiaries, equity investments, and intercompany activities, ensuring timely and accurate period-end close.
• Prepare and review consolidation entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for assigned balance sheet accounts.
• Analyze financial results to identify unusual transactions, accounting issues, and emerging business risks.
• Research complex accounting matters, prepare technical accounting documentation, and support implementation of new accounting guidance.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors by providing supporting documentation and responding to audit inquiries.

Controls, Governance & Business Partnership

• Evaluate financial reporting controls across multiple legal entities, identifying risks and recommending practical improvements.
• Partner with finance teams and business leaders to strengthen internal controls and ensure compliance with corporate policies and reporting standards.
• Support ongoing monitoring of the organization’s internal control environment and coordinate control activities with internal audit.
• Provide accounting guidance for new business initiatives, acquisitions, integrations, and organizational changes.

What We’re Looking For:

• University degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• 4–6 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally within financial services, insurance, or another complex multi-entity environment.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and experience preparing consolidated financial statements.
• Experience with accounting for acquisitions.
• Hands‑on experience with consolidation accounting, inter‑company transactions, and equity accounting.
• Demonstrated success designing or improving accounting processes, controls, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience collaborating across multiple business units and managing competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, PivotTables, and data analysis.
• Experience using ERP systems such as Dynamics, Workday, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with strong attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in advisory practice at the firm.
• Experience in accounting policy at major banks.
• Experience with business intelligence or reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Familiarity with Workday or other cloud‑based finance platforms.
• Background supporting finance transformation, process automation, or systems implementations.