Job Title: Consolidation Accountant

Job Description

The Consolidation Accountant plays a key role in a complex, multi-entity, multi-currency manufacturing environment, leading full-cycle accounting and consolidation activities. This position focuses on building, reworking, and improving consolidated financial statements and related processes, supporting accurate financial reporting and potential consolidation tool or EPM implementation projects within a science-driven biotech organization.

Responsibilities

- Lead full-cycle accounting activities in a complex manufacturing environment, including general ledger maintenance, journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close processes.
- Prepare, review, and analyze consolidated financial statements for multiple entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with relevant accounting standards.
- Build, rework, resolve, and upgrade complex consolidations, including integrating newly acquired entities, adjusting eliminations, and expanding consolidation structures (such as moving from 5 to 7 entities).
- Manage and support consolidation activities in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment, ensuring proper treatment of intercompany transactions and foreign currency impacts.
- Perform detailed consolidation analysis and financial reporting, providing insights on balance sheet positions and overall financial performance.
- Collaborate closely with regional controllers and global finance peers to align accounting treatments, resolve discrepancies, and standardize consolidation processes.
- Support potential consolidation automation or EPM implementation projects by clearly articulating current issues, defining desired future states, and partnering with IT and external consultants.
- Utilize large ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle Fusion, Dynamics 365, or Workday) to execute accounting and reporting tasks efficiently and accurately.
- Maintain and reconcile fixed assets and related accounts as part of full-cycle accounting responsibilities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of financial reporting processes, controls, and documentation in the consolidation and project reporting team.
- Provide timely, accurate financial reporting and respond to ad hoc requests from finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Essential Skills

- Minimum 3+ years of full-cycle accounting experience in manufacturing environments.
- Professional accounting designation (CPA), with Canadian CPA preferred.
- Hands-on complex consolidation experience, including building, reworking, resolving, or upgrading consolidations and integrating acquired entities.
- Proven experience working in a multi-entity, multi-currency, complex manufacturing environment.
- Strong proficiency with large ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle Fusion, Dynamics 365, or Workday.
- Deep knowledge of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close processes.
- Experience preparing and analyzing balance sheets, financial statements, and financial reporting in a corporate setting.
- Ability to perform detailed consolidation analysis and produce high-quality consolidated financial statements.
- Excellent cross-team communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with regional controllers, finance peers, IT teams, and external consultants.




- Ability to clearly articulate problems and desired future states to support system and process improvements.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

- Exposure to consolidation tools or EPM implementation projects.
- SAP experience in a manufacturing or corporate finance environment.
- Experience with fixed asset accounting and related reporting.
- Familiarity with project reporting within a finance function.
- Comfort working in a large global finance organization of approximately 70–80 professionals, including CFO, regional teams, costing, and accounting.
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on process improvement and automation.
- Ability to thrive in a highly educated, science-driven culture with an active social environment.

Work Environment

This role is based fully on-site, five days per week, within a large biotech organization that operates in a complex manufacturing and multi-entity setting. You will be part of a local consolidation and project reporting team of three, working closely with a global finance organization of approximately 70–80 professionals, including regional finance teams, costing, and accounting. The company offers a mission-led, science-driven culture, supporting life-science research in over 70 countries and reinvesting profits into people and scientific advancement. The workplace is highly educated, collaborative, and socially active, with significant exposure to large ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle Fusion, Dynamics 365, and Workday. The organization has a long-standing commitment to remaining locally rooted and privately held, fostering stability and a strong focus on employee and scientific development.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Burnaby, BC.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $43.27 - $50.49/hr.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Burnaby,BC.

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, les achats, la chaine 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 vaste réseau 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 et en Europe, Aston Carter est au service d'un grand nombre d'entreprises du classement Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers d'avoir remporté la désignation « Prix Platine » dans le cadre des prix Best of Staffing® Client et Talent décernés par ClearlyRated.





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About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

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