Financial Analyst, Corporate Accounting
Halifax, NS
Closed
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Job Details:
In-person
Full-time
Entry Level
Clearwater Seafoods' Corporate Reporting & Accounting department requires a full time permanent Financial Analyst, Corporate Accounting.
Purpose of Position:
This position is responsible to analyze routine information for accuracy and business insight and to generate accounting entries and analysis that require data interpretation or professional judgement.
Reporting Structure:
This position reports to: Senior Corporate Accountant, Corporate Accounting
Responsibilities
Major Responsibilities:
- Review and post accruals and journal entries
- Perform fixed asset, general ledger, and inventory accounting
- Prepare remittances for EDC, VAT, and other government filings
- Reconcile intercompany and goods in transit accounts for all companies
- Prepare working papers supporting the monthly close process and month end balances
- Support the business with analysis of reports
- Perform other related duties as required
- Supervise and coach clerk level employees
Duties & Accountabilities:
- Journal entry work:
- Prepare and enter journal entries
- Review journal entries for completeness and accuracy
- Post journal entries
- Input sheet generation
- Generate input sheets
- Analyze input sheets for completeness and accuracy
- Ensure GL account integrity
- Prepare account reconciliations and working papers that tie out to GL balance
- Review account reconciliations and working papers for accuracy and completeness
- Follow up on issues identified and actively seek solutions to problems until resolved
- Weekly specific GL Account review:
- Review intercompany reconciliations
- Review goods in transit (GIT)
- Review internal orders
- Prepare month end schedules and reporting
- Fixed asset work:
- Follow up with operations to determine when fixed assets are ready to be depreciated
- Ensure that fixed assets set up adhere to fixed asset policy
- Ensure proper useful lives and appropriate master data is set up for fixed assets
- Create balance sheet and income statement budgets for Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
- Long term debt continuity
- Fixed asset continuity
- Interest expense schedule
- Other schedules as required
- Assist the quarter end and year end audits
- Explain journal entry support
- Create and explain schedules
- Analysis for reporting and GL Accounts as required
- Supervise and coach clerk level employees
- Review work of clerk
- Provide timely feedback on work
- Assist in development of employees
Qualifications
Key Behavioral Competencies:
- Dedicated, hardworking and detail oriented
- Good management and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong technical ability
- Self-motivated and driven to succeed
- Ability to work well with groups
- Ability to multi-task under tight deadlines
- Ability to lead teams
Qualifications:
- University business degree with Accounting major
- CPA designation or working towards
- 1-3+ years of relevant experience
- SAP user knowledge is an asset
- Clear and effective communication skills, both verbally and written
- Excellent analytical skills
Company Website:
https://www.clearwater.ca/en/
