Corporate Accountant owning reconciliations, journal entries, royalties and month - end close. Supporting IFRS reporting and process improvement at Canadian K - 12 publisher Nelson Education.
About the role
- Senior Accountant managing IFRS project accounting, inventory, and month-end close for a growing transit technology company. Supporting NetSuite reporting, audits, and financial controls.
Responsibilities
- Support the month-end close by preparing journal entries, accruals, reconciliations and related analysis for project accounting, inventory, fixed assets and intercompany
- Assist in preparing monthly reporting packages
- Prepare project revenue recognition under IFRS 15, including percentage-of-completion calculations, deferred revenue and contract balance schedules, and WIP reports
- Maintain project accounting for multi-year transit implementations
- Track cost to budget and support estimate-at-completion reviews with project managers
- Reconcile contract assets and liabilities
- Account for hardware and spares inventory, including cost flows into projects, perpetual-to-GL reconciliation, cycle counts and year-end obsolescence review
- Manage fixed asset accounting and maintain detailed continuity schedules
- Prepare and post intercompany transactions and complete month-end intercompany reconciliations
- Prepare U.S. sales and use tax filings and 1099 reporting
- Reconcile related accounts, resolve variances and support sales tax audits
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations in BlackLine
- Prepare PBC schedules for year-end audit and quarterly reviews
- Operate key controls in the Risk Control Matrix
- Prepare accurate financial, project margin and other accounting reports
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (required)
- CPA designation desired, or working towards it
- 4–7 years of progressive accounting experience, including full-cycle accounting and month-end close
- Working knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 15 revenue recognized over time and IFRS 16 leases
- Project accounting and WIP experience on long-term, fixed-price or milestone-based contracts
- NetSuite experience; SuiteProjects or ARM is an asset
- BlackLine and advanced Excel experience
- Experience supporting a NetSuite implementation is desired
- Demonstrated, hands-on use of AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude in accounting work
- Ability to use AI tools to automate or speed up month-end close and tasks such as reconciliations, variance analysis and journal entry support, while maintaining appropriate review of AI outputs
- Transit or transportation software experience is preferred
- Inventory accounting experience in a hardware/software business is preferred
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment
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