Aston Carter's large client in Calgary is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their team! This individual will support the corporate accounting function with a strong focus on detailed reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analysis. This role requires a solid corporate accounting background and a hands-on approach to investigating variances, reconciling intercompany transactions, and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of balance sheet and profit and loss (P&L) reporting across corporate divisions. The successful candidate is analytical, highly detail-oriented, and comfortable digging into complex data to resolve discrepancies and outages while contributing to process improvements and robust checks and balances. Key Responsibilities + Prepare and post recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to corporate accounting activities. + Manage and review purchase orders, corporate expenses, and audit-related fees, ensuring proper coding, approvals, and accurate recording. + Perform detailed account reconciliations, with a strong emphasis on balance sheet accounts and PP&E, including large and complex asset bases. + Prepare and review elimination entries and reconcile intercompany transactions between corporate entities to ensure accurate consolidated reporting. + Analyze balance sheet and P&L accounts to ensure accuracy, completeness, and proper financial presentation. + Investigate and resolve variances, discrepancies, and outages through in-depth analysis and reconciliation work. + Perform variance analysis for corporate divisions, identifying root causes and providing clear, concise explanations to management. + Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring deadlines are met and financial information is accurate and well-documented. + Assist with audit requests by preparing supporting documentation and responding to auditor inquiries in a timely and thorough manner. + Collaborate with internal stakeholders across different departments to resolve accounting issues and improve reconciliation and reporting processes. + Maintain and enhance documentation of accounting procedures, reconciliations, and internal checks and balances. + Contribute to process improvement initiatives within the corporate accounting function, including the design and refinement of workbooks and controls. + Support activities related to large ERP environments and, where applicable, assist with ERP implementation or optimization. Additional Skills & Qualifications MUST HAVES: + 5+ years of corporate accounting experience, including journal entries, purchase orders, expense and audit fee management, account reconciliations, elimination entries, and intercompany reconciliations. + Proven experience working with balance sheet and P&L accounts, including preparing proof schedules and performing detailed variance analysis for corporate divisions. + Strong background in balance sheet reconciliations, including PP&E and other complex accounts. + Experience working in organizations with at least $100M in revenue or in a medium-sized company environment. + Hands-on experience with large ERP systems such as SAP, NetSuite, or Oracle. + Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables and formulas, for analysis and reconciliation work. NICE TO HAVE + Experience participating in or supporting an ERP implementation is an asset. + CPA designation or active enrollment in a CPA program is preferred. + Experience in public accounting or large-firm financial reporting is considered an advantage. + background in a similar industry or corporate environment is beneficial. Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Calgary, AB. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $38.46 - $43.26/hr. Workplace Type This is a fully onsite position in Calgary,AB. À propos d'Aston Carter: Aston Carter fournit des solutions de talent de classe mondiale à des milliers de clients à travers le monde. Spécialisés dans la comptabilité, la finance, les ressources humaines, l’acquisition de talents, la chaîne d’approvisionnement et certaines professions administratives, nous étendons les capacités des entreprises à la pointe de l'industrie. Nous nous appuyons sur notre profonde expertise en matière de recrutement et sur notre réseau expansif pour répondre aux besoins évolutifs de nos clients et de notre communauté de talents avec agilité et excellence. Avec des bureaux aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Asie-Pacifique et en Europe, Aston Carter est au service d’un grand nombre d’entreprises du Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers d’avoir remporté le double diamant ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® pour notre service aux clients et aux talents. Aston Carter est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité des chances et accepte toutes les candidatures sans tenir compte de la race, du sexe, de l’âge, de la couleur, de la religion, des origines nationales, du statut d’ancien combattant, d’un handicap, de l’orientation sexuelle, de l’identité sexuelle, des renseignements génétiques ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi. 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