Senior Executive - Finance

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Job Description:

Financial Control Specialist

Job description / Description du poste

• The Dealer Accounting & Control team is responsible for ensuring the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of accounting transactions from the administration systems through to the General Ledger. This includes cash controls monitoring, accounting and reporting related to the Dealer business. The Financial Control Specialist will be responsible for ensuring that all work is complete and accurate, identifying and escalating any issues and offering alternatives for a solution. The successful candidate should possess a natural willingness to support the team in the accomplishment of all objectives, strive to understand client’s needs, create efficiencies and support innovation.

Preferred skills (Assets)

• Demonstrated accounting experience (reconciliation, audit, reporting, etc.)
• Experience in account reconciliation
• Demonstrated ability with a track record of leading/supporting process improvement
• Mutual fund industry experience
• Familiar with Oracle/SAP general ledger systems (including Tableau and Frontier)

Qualifications

• Graduate in Finance/ accounting or equivalent experience
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to handle conflicting priorities and meet stringent deadlines
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to operate effectively as a team member as well as independently with limited supervision
• Solid problem-solving skills, analytical skills and attention to accuracy and detail
• Adaptable, pro-active, and positive approach toward change

Responsibilities

• Trust Accounting functions for the Dealer back office
• Reconciliation of various suspense and balance sheet accounts
• Completing manual journal entries
• Monitor daily accounting reports and error corrections
• Research discrepancies to reconcile all related bank accounts for the Dealer products
• Responsible for money movement between various systems and bank accounts
• Error tracking and trending to increase accuracy and create process improvements
• Balancing accounting feeder files sent from the administration system to the General Ledger
• Provide consultation to business partners to ensure standard accounting practices are being followed so control issues do not occur 
• Engage in process improvement to create efficiencies
• Maintain and create accounting procedures documentation
• Project or adhoc work as required

Notes/Unique requirements

• Overtime will be required during peak periods (month-end and RRSP season)

Job Category:

Finance

Posting End Date:

28/08/2024