Senior Accountant

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Oversight of all joint venture company accounting including the full cycle of payables, receivables, transactions, and financial statement preparation.
• Prepare and review/finalize monthly, quarterly, annual financial statements. Monitoring, analyzing trends, and forecasting financial performance of the company and provide insights to the senior management.
• Assist in the short/long term cash management of the business including analyzing operational and project cash flow forecasts to ensure the business has an accurate understanding of expected cash flows and cash balances.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Formulating, preparing, and reviewing company budgets and ensuring expenses are in line with the projected revenue.
• Analyzing financial information and summarizing findings
• Review and recommend modifications to procedures to improve accuracy and efficiencies, including assisting with successful implementation
• Prepare financial statements, budgets, and forecasts according to timelines for review by management.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting principles.
• Assist with the external audit processes.
• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.
• Performs other relevant duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business and/or similar discipline with analytical bias
• MBA and/or professional accounting designation
• 5+ years in a similar role
• In-depth understanding of relevant accounting principles and preparation of financial statements
• CPA certification

Required experience

• Minimum 3 years experience with start to finish preparation of financial statements
• Experience with external financial statement audits
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpretation of results
• Aviation experience considered an asset

Skills

• Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing, and often ambiguous environment.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail, very meticulous
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Excellent technical accounting skills and knowledge of best practice accounting procedures
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Self-starter, able to work autonomously if required.
• Advanced Word, Outlook, and Excel skills including Vlookups and pivot tables.
• Positive demeanor.

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