Senior Manager, Accounting

Our client is sourcing for a Senior Manager, Accounting for a 3-month period with potential to become permanent.

The Senior Manager of Accounting is a key member of the Finance & Accounting team, responsible for leading the full-cycle accounting function, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, and driving a timely, well-controlled month-end and year-end close. This role owns account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and journal entry preparation and review, while partnering closely with FP&A;, Reporting, and external auditors. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on accounting leader with strong technical knowledge, a process‑improvement mindset, and the ability to mentor a growing accounting team.

This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Full Cycle Accounting

- Own the full-cycle accounting process, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, payroll accruals, and intercompany transactions.
- Manage the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process, ensuring deadlines are met and the general ledger is accurate and complete.
- Prepare and review consolidated financial statements in accordance with ASPE/IFRS, including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.
- Maintain and continuously improve the chart of accounts, accounting policies, and internal controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure compliance with tax filing requirements (HST/GST, corporate tax, payroll remittances) in coordination with external tax advisors.

Reconciliations

- Oversee the preparation and review of monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are supported and variances are investigated and resolved.
- Perform and review bank reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations, and inventory/COGS reconciliations across multiple entities.
- Establish reconciliation standards, templates, and review cadences to ensure consistency and audit‑readiness across the accounting team.
- Identify and resolve reconciling items, aged balances,



and discrepancies in a timely manner, escalating risk areas to the Director of Finance.
- Partner with Treasury and Operations to ensure cash, deposit, and clearing accounts are reconciled and monitored on an ongoing basis.

Schedules & Supporting Analysis

- Prepare and review key supporting schedules, including prepaid expenses, accruals, fixed assets/depreciation, deferred revenue, and debt schedules.
- Maintain rolling continuity schedules for balance sheet accounts and ensure they tie out to the general ledger each period.
- Support the year-end audit by preparing audit‑ready working papers, schedules, and reconciliations, and act as a key point of contact for external auditors.
- Develop schedules and analyses to support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting requests from FP&A; and senior leadership.

Journal Entries & General Ledger

- Review and approve journal entries prepared by the accounting team, ensuring accuracy, proper supporting documentation, and appropriate account coding.
- Prepare complex and non-standard journal entries, including accruals, allocations, and adjusting entries.
- Maintain strong controls over journal entry preparation, review, and approval workflows within the ERP system.
- Ensure the general ledger reflects accurate, complete, and timely financial activity to support reliable financial reporting.

Team Leadership & Process Improvement

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of accountants and accounting analysts, providing coaching, training, and performance feedback.
- Identify and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to streamline the close, reconciliation, and reporting processes.
- Document accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to strengthen consistency and institutional knowledge.




- Champion the effective use of ERP and accounting systems to improve efficiency, accuracy, and reporting capabilities.

Business Partnering & Compliance

- Serve as a trusted finance partner to FP&A;, Operations, and other departments, providing accounting guidance and analysis as needed.
- Support internal and external audits, including preparation of audit schedules and responses to auditor inquiries.
- Monitor changes in accounting standards and regulatory requirements, assessing and implementing impacts on the organization.
- Respond to ad hoc requests from senior leadership with timely, accurate financial information and analysis.

REQUIREMENTS

- CPA designation required.

Experience

- 7-10 years of progressive full-cycle accounting experience, including 2+ years in a supervisory or management role.
- Demonstrated experience owning month-end/year-end close, account reconciliations, and journal entry review in a corporate environment.
- Prior experience in a mid-to-large size organization with multiple entities or business units is preferred.
- Experience working directly with external auditors through year-end audit engagements.

Technical Skills

- Strong technical accounting knowledge of ASPE/IFRS and internal control frameworks.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including reconciliations, schedules, and large data sets.
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Business Central) for journal entries, close, and reconciliations.
- Familiarity with reconciliation and close-management tools (e.g., Blackline) is an asset.
- Ability to use AI to support process efficiency and decision making.

Core Competencies

- Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy and data integrity.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple close deadlines.
- Strong leadership and people-management skills, with a track record of developing team members.
- Effective communicator, able to explain accounting matters clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Proactive, hands‑on problem solver who thrives in a rapid‑paced, deadline‑driven environment.

Pay Rate

$55.00/Hour

📌 Senior Manager, Accounting (Toronto)
🏢 Vaco Recruiter Services
📍 Toronto