Senior GL Accountant

pernodricard; Windsor; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Corby Spirit and Wine Limited and Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd. is hiring a Senior GL Accountant to join the North America Accounting Team. You will own core month-end and year-end close, prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting.

You will investigate accounting issues, strengthen controls, and mentor CPA students while partnering with Finance and the broader business. You will balance hands-on accounting with problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring timely delivery

Qualifications

• CPA candidate or CPA designation preferred.
• Strong accounting fundamentals and IFRS knowledge.
• Experience with JD Edwards E1 is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and coordinate key month-end and year-end close activities across statutory and management general ledgers, ensuring work is completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, monthly reporting packages, and supporting analyses, identifying discrepancies and clearly explaining variances and accounting impacts to stakeholders.
• Analyze system-generated journal entries within JD Edwards E1 and review work completed by junior accountants across assigned accounts and accounting flows.
• Investigate accounting issues related to business activity, changes in operations, IFRS requirements, and ad hoc requests, applying sound judgment to recommend practical solutions.
• Help maintain a strong internal control environment by ensuring compliance with accounting policies, reconciliation and journal-entry standards, documentation requirements, and financial reporting controls.
• Support internal and external audit requests, proactively identifying and escalating accounting or control issues when appropriate.
• Contribute to half-year and year-end consolidated reporting packages, annual tax package preparation, and other recurring financial reporting requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance and the business to understand transactions, assess accounting implications, and translate complex financial information into clear insights.
• Mentor and support the development of junior accounting team members and CPA students through coaching

Job description

Join Corby Spirit and Wine Limited and Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd.,: Where Moments Matter

At Corby and Hiram Walker, we're more than a company - we're curators of unforgettable moments. Our portfolio boasts some of Canada's most iconic and award-winning brands, including J.P. Wiser's, Lot No. 40, Pike Creek, and Gooderham & Worts Canadian whiskies, Polar Ice vodka, Lamb's rum, Ungava gin, McGuinness and Cabot Trail liqueurs, Ace Beverage Group's Cottage Springs, Cabana Coast, Liberty Village, and Good Vines, and Foreign Affair wines. But that's just the beginning.

Through its affiliation with Pernod Ricard, Corby represents leading international brands such as ABSOLUT® Vodka, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Malibu®, Kahlúa® Liqueur, The Glenlivet®, Beefeater and Malfy Gins, a leading portfolio of American whiskey brands including Jefferson's, Rabbit Hole, and Skrewball™ whiskey., and Perrier-Jouët and Mumm champagnes, - making our portfolio the most comprehensive in the market.

Why Choose Us?

Igniting Conviviality: Derived from the French word "convivialité," our ethos centres on human connection, authenticity, and friendliness. We create moments that matter, starting with how we work together.

Progressive Opportunities: Fuel your ambition with outstanding career prospects and rewards. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your journey, we're invested in your growth.

Guided by our 4 core values: (1) grounded in the real; (2) fiercely authentic; (3) passion for challenge; and (4) connected beyond borders; we are team players, dream makers, trailblazers, movers and (cocktail) shakers. We have a passion for living life to the fullest, making new friends every day, and realizing our potential as people and as a business!

The salary range for this role is $78,900.00 to $98,600.00 . Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a candidate's experience, skills against internal peers and against the scope and responsibilities of the position.

Job Summary:

As a key member of the North America Accounting Team, the Senior GL Accountant plays an important role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timely delivery of financial information across our statutory and management general ledgers.

In this role, you will take ownership of core close, reconciliation, and reporting activities while partnering with stakeholders across Finance and the broader business. You'll use your accounting expertise and judgment to investigate issues, explain financial impacts, strengthen controls, and identify opportunities to improve the way work gets done.

This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting professional who enjoys balancing hands-on accounting with problem-solving, cross-functional partnership, and the opportunity to mentor others.

Who will love this job:

You are a detail-oriented accounting professional who can see both the numbers and the bigger picture. You enjoy digging into complex transactions, understanding what is driving an issue, and translating your findings into clear, actionable information for others.

You are comfortable taking ownership of deadlines and deliverables, collaborating with financial and non-financial stakeholders, and knowing when an issue requires escalation. You bring strong technical accounting fundamentals, sound judgment, and a customer-focused mindset. You also enjoy improving processes and sharing your knowledge to help strengthen the broader team.

What you'll do:

• Own and coordinate key month-end and year-end close activities across statutory and management general ledgers, ensuring work is completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, monthly reporting packages, and supporting analyses, identifying discrepancies and clearly explaining variances and accounting impacts to stakeholders.
• Analyze system-generated journal entries within JD Edwards E1 and review work completed by junior accountants across assigned accounts and accounting flows.
• Investigate accounting issues related to business activity, changes in operations, IFRS requirements, and ad hoc requests, applying sound judgment to recommend practical solutions.
• Help maintain a strong internal control environment by ensuring compliance with accounting policies, reconciliation and journal-entry standards, documentation requirements, and financial reporting controls.
• Support internal and external audit requests, proactively identifying and escalating accounting or control issues when appropriate.
• Contribute to half-year and year-end consolidated reporting packages, annual tax package preparation, and other recurring financial reporting requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance and the business to understand transactions, assess accounting implications, and translate complex financial information into clear insights.
• Mentor and support the development of junior accounting team members and CPA students through coaching