17 Oct
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Total Power
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Mississauga
17 Oct
Total Power
Mississauga
Senior Financial Analyst
Six-month temporary position with potential to become full-time
Reports to: Controller
Summary The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for full-cycle accounting and financial analysis for the businesses. The role owns assigned reconciliations and month-end schedules, supports accurate accounting for service sales and rental contracts, and works with Operations to resolve transaction issues and explain financial performance.
What You’ll Do
Full-cycle accounting and close
- Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and other month-end adjustments.
- Reconcile assigned general ledger and subledger accounts, including intercompany balances, and resolve reconciling items promptly.
- Review transactions for accurate coding, completeness, and period cutoff.
- Prepare balance sheet schedules and supporting working papers for monthly, quarterly, and year-end reporting.
- Support year-end audit requests and follow through on questions or adjustments related to assigned accounts.
Service sales and rentals accounting
- Review service work orders, invoicing, credits, and open jobs to support complete and timely revenue recognition.
- Maintain lease schedules and related accounting for leased vehicles, including new leases and reconcile them to the general ledger.
- Reconcile service sales and related costs to operational records, investigating unbilled work, deferred revenue, and margin exceptions.
- Review rental contracts, billing periods, extensions, returns, and credits to support accurate rental revenue and cutoff.
- Reconcile rental fleet records to the general ledger and support accounting for fleet additions, transfers, disposals, and depreciation.
- Work with Service, Rentals,
and Billing teams to resolve missing information and improve the handoff from completed work or rental activity to invoicing.
Reporting and analysis
- Prepare monthly results and variance analysis for Service and Rentals, including revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and key balance sheet accounts.
- Investigate trends and exceptions with operational leaders and provide clear commentary to the Controller.
- Support forecasts, budgets, and key performance reporting for the two businesses.
- Identify recurring accounting or process issues and help implement practical improvements.
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
- CPA designation or progress toward a CPA designation is preferred.
- At least three years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on full-cycle accounting and month-end close.
- Experience with service, rentals, field operations, or a multi-branch business is an asset.
- Strong understanding of account reconciliations, revenue and expense cutoff, accruals, and fixed asset accounting.
- Solid Excel skills and experience working with an ERP system; Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience is an asset.
- Ability to investigate discrepancies, maintain clear supporting schedules, and meet close deadlines.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both Finance and Operations.
Working Conditions
- Six-month temporary assignment with potential for a full-time opportunity based on business needs and performance.
- Occasional overtime may be required during month-end, year-end, and audit periods.
- Work is primarily performed using a computer, with regular collaboration across Finance and Operations.
📌 Senior Financial Analyst - 6-month contract (Mississauga)
🏢 Total Power
📍 Mississauga