Senior Financial Accountant (Full-Time, Permanent) Remote within Manitoba

Access Credit Union Limited; Manitoba; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension plan

Continuing education

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Access Credit Union Limited is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to support the Finance Department with accounting practices, monthly reports, and reconciliations, including foreign exchange and CRA/Concentra reporting.

The ideal candidate will have a CPA or progress toward it, 3–5 years experience in accounting within financial services, and strong communication, analytical and project-management skills to handle multiple tasks and deadlines in a remote Manitoba-based role.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree/diploma or professional designation in business, finance, audit, accounting or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• CPA designation or commitment to complete considered an asset.
• Three to five years' experience within accounting and/or financial institution management, preferably in financial services.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with technical and non-technical staff.
• Organized with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present ideas in a professional manner.
• Able to work with minimal or no supervision, as well as part of a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects with strong prioritization and execution skills.
• A strong desire to research and learn.

Responsibilities

• Maintain financial records in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Post monthly billings and perform fixed asset accounting.
• Participate in month-end and year-end financial reporting and related reviews.
• Support annual budgeting and external audit processes.
• Conduct financial results analysis and forecast modelling.
• Prepare regulatory reporting to CRA for RRSP/RRIF/TFSA and other requirements.
• Ensure timely month-end close and accuracy of GL balances.
• Maintain knowledge of risk, confidentiality, security, and fraud prevention.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Written and verbal communication

Analytical thinking

Project management

Research and learning

Education

Bachelor level degree in business/finance/accounting

CPA designation or progress toward

Tools

A/P module

Accounting system

Job description

Grow your career with one of Manitoba's Top Employers since 2014.

At Access Credit Union, we support a professional and innovative work environment with a corporate culture that uniquely embraces empowerment, accountability, and trust.

We recognize and value each employee's contributions to our success, which is why we offer competitive compensation, 100% company paid health benefits, employer-matched pension plan, continuing education, and career advancement opportunities within our credit union.

At Access Credit Union, our values are straightforward: Do good, Be better, Own it, Move forward.

The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for assisting the Finance Department with the credit union's accounting practices, the maintenance of fiscal records, the preparation of monthly financial reports, along with various financial analysis including current account and GL reconciliations, foreign exchange services, and reporting to CRA and Concentra.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures.
• Posting of various billings during the month.
• Perform fixed asset accounting.
• Participate in the month end and year-end financial reporting process, board and related reporting.
• Participate in the year-end annual external audit process, including year-end working paper preparation and provision to the external audit team, and related reviews and reports.
• Support the annual budgeting process.
• Conduct financial results analysis such as financial margin results, budget variance analysis, and model financial forecasts.
• Support term investment accounting.
• Monitoring of US matching position.
• Ensure accurate and timely month-end close.
• Prepare monthly financial reports and statements.
• Resolve various accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
• Ensure all regulatory financial reporting deadlines are met.
• Data quality reviews of various financial reports and information.
• Verify and balance various GL's and monitor and review accounting and related reports for accuracy at the direction of the Director, Finance.
• Create new vendors within the A/P module, along with verifying and posting of invoice batches within the accounting system.
• Perform regulatory reporting to CRA with respects to RRSP, RRIF, TFSA transactions.
• Regulatory reporting to CRA with respect to T5 and NR4 requirements.
• Conduct regulatory remittances of tax withholdings and corporate tax instalments.
• Administration, payment and reporting on the outstanding syndicated loan portfolio.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of and adhere to credit union policies and procedures on risk management, confidentiality, security and fraud prevention.

Essential Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree/diploma or professional designation in business, finance, audit, accounting or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• CPA designation or commitment to complete considered an asset.
• Three to five years' experience within accounting and/or financial institution management, preferably in financial services.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with technical and non-technical staff.
• Organized with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present ideas in a professional manner.
• Able to work with minimal or no supervision, as well as part of a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects with strong prioritization and execution skills.
• A strong desire to research and learn.

Note: This is a remote position however the successful candidate must reside in Manitoba.

Employee Sub-Type

Regular

Starting Salary

$69,929.00

Salary Band

$69,929.00 - $85,549.00

In most situations, candidates will be offered the starting salary for the position. In exceptional circumstances, and at the organization’s discretion, an offer may be made above the stated minimum based on factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, internal equity and external compensation factors. When underfilling a position, the salary offered may be in a lower salary band.

At Access Credit Union, we support a professional and innovative work environment with a corporate culture that uniquely embraces empowerment, accountability, and trust.

We recognize and value each employee's contributions to our success, which is why we offer competitive compensation, continuing education, and career advancement opportunities within our credit union.

Grow your career with one of Manitoba's Top Employers since 2014!

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