Accounting Specialist ensuring accurate and timely processing of Accounts Payable transactions at Sonova. Supporting audits and maintaining financial accuracy across multiple reporting entities.
About the role
- Associate Manager, Accounting managing financial activities and team oversight at Canada Life. Ensuring compliance with regulations and accounting standards while fostering team development.
Responsibilities
- Maintain responsibility for financial accounting and reporting including preparation and review of monthly Corporate financials, interim and annual Fund financials, quarterly investment portfolios, annual Fund Facts
- Support the team by providing oversight of monthly variance analysis, expense analysis, journal entry approval and review of account reconciliations.
- Oversee internal, external, including Enterprise Risk Management CSOX and regulatory audits
- Creating and maintaining models that support business lines, revenue, expenses, profitability, and projections
- Participate in annual budget preparation
- Ensuring Internal Controls and Operational procedure manuals are continuously updated
- Providing coaching and mentoring to team members as a first point of contact on day-to-day operations matters requiring guidance, review, or escalation
- Developing and enhancing team processes and improvements
- Establishing and maintaining effective communications across teams
- Supporting the team’s direct reporting leader with identifying learning opportunities and knowledge gaps within the team and assist in developing learning plans.
- Assess and monitor team workload and respond accordingly to changing conditions based on capacity and business needs
- Support management by recognizing positive contributions by team members, providing on the job coaching, and facilitating team monthly meetings
Requirements
- 5-7 years progressive accounting experience in the financial services industry
- Completion of post-secondary education with a specialization in Accounting
- Accounting designation
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of IFRS principles and guidelines
- Knowledge of SAP
- Some knowledge of Microsoft Business Tools to support team and other groups
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate the goals and objectives of the organization clearly and concisely to all stakeholders.
- Positive and collaborative approach to teamwork and effective listener
- Ability to influence and teach team members with encouragement
- Ability to prioritize with tight deadlines
- Ability to coach, train, mentor, lead and provide operational oversight to team members.
- Very strong proficiency using MS Word and Excel.
- Ability to prepare professional looking reports and diagrams
- Ability to consolidate, prepare and verify data for metrics and reports.
- Demonstrated aptitude for building financial models (spreadsheet engineering) for complex processes using advanced formulas.
Benefits
- Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
- Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
- In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
- Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options.
- Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!
- We provide a workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.
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