Senior Financial Accountant

Hands-On Accounting | Reconciliations | Inventory Analysis | Internal Controls

The Senior Financial Accountant will play a key role in strengthening the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of core accounting processes. This is a hands-on position focused on bringing accounting activities up to date, resolving historical and unsupported balances, completing reconciliations, supporting period-end close activities, and improving financial documentation and internal controls.

The successful candidate will be analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable investigating discrepancies, working through accounting backlogs, and supporting audit remediation initiatives.

This role requires strong technical accounting skills, advanced Excel capabilities, and the ability to use AI tools to improve accounting efficiency, data analysis, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

1. Reconciliations and Account Integrity

- Prepare and maintain bank reconciliations, promptly investigating outstanding and unusual reconciling items.
- Complete balance-sheet reconciliations with appropriate sub-ledger support, clear explanations, and documented follow-up actions.
- Investigate historical and unexplained account balances, resolve mapping discrepancies, and maintain accurate supporting schedules.
- Ensure account balances are properly supported, reconciled, and ready for review.

2. Month-End and Quarter-End Close

- Prepare journal entries, accruals, prepaids, account analyses, and supporting schedules in accordance with established close deadlines.
- Support the preparation of trial balances, financial statements, and management reporting packages.
- Address Controller review comments and ensure outstanding accounting items are investigated and resolved promptly.
- Identify opportunities to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and consistency of close processes.

3. Cash, Accounts Receivable and Credit Support

- Reconcile cash and cheque receipts against collection logs, bank deposits, and customer account applications.
- Reconcile driver cash logs and investigate discrepancies to ensure timely and accurate recording.
- Analyze aged accounts receivable, credit-limit exceptions, and customer recoverability.
- Prepare supporting documentation for allowance assessments, provisions, and write-offs.




- Maintain clear documentation supporting high-risk customer accounts and credit-related decisions, including do-not-sell restrictions.

4. Inventory Accounting and Analysis

- Complete quarterly inventory reconciliations and maintain supporting count sheets, schedules, and documentation.
- Investigate inventory count variances, recurring SKU discrepancies, and warehouse-related trends.
- Analyze inventory movements and variances, identifying potential accounting issues and opportunities for improvement.
- Support inventory reporting, margin analysis, and business intelligence activities to provide meaningful insights to management.
- Collaborate with Operations to resolve inventory discrepancies and strengthen inventory controls.

5. Internal Controls, Audit Support and Accounting Cleanup

- Maintain organized, audit-ready documentation for key accounting activities and account balances.
- Support the remediation of Internal Audit findings by preparing reconciliations, schedules, and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps in documentation, process breakdowns, and potential control weaknesses, escalating concerns to the Controller.
- Assist with historical account cleanup, accounting process improvements, and broader finance stabilization initiatives.
- Leverage AI tools and advanced Excel techniques to improve data analysis, reporting accuracy, and workflow efficiency.

Experience and Qualifications

- CPA designation, CPA candidate, or equivalent depth of hands-on accounting experience.
- Strong practical experience with bank and balance-sheet reconciliations, journal entries, period-end close activities, and supporting schedules.
- Demonstrated experience in inventory accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and variance analysis.
- Experience with margin analysis, financial reporting, and providing business intelligence to support operational and financial decision-making.
- Working knowledge of accounts receivable,



credit management, cash application, and allowance analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to analyze large datasets, identify discrepancies, and produce reliable financial reports.
- Experience using AI tools to support accounting processes, data analysis, reporting, or productivity improvements.
- Strong investigative and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently research discrepancies, document findings, and drive issues through to resolution.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities while working through a significant accounting backlog under firm deadlines.
- High integrity, sound judgment, and a strong commitment to financial accuracy, documentation, and internal controls.
- French and English proficiency is an asset in the Québec operating setting.
- Successful completion of required reference, criminal background, and credit checks.

What Success Looks Like

- Bank and balance-sheet reconciliations are current, fully supported, and free of unexplained aged items.
- Month-end and quarter-end close schedules and journal entries are accurate, timely, and ready for Controller review.
- Historical balances and accounting discrepancies are investigated, resolved, and properly documented.
- Inventory and accounts receivable analyses provide clear explanations, identify risks, and support actionable follow-up.
- Audit requests are addressed promptly using organized, reliable supporting documentation.
- Internal Audit findings and control deficiencies are addressed through timely, well-documented remediation.
- Accounting issues are identified and escalated early rather than carried forward into subsequent reporting periods.
- Accounting processes become more accurate, consistent, and efficient through disciplined execution, improved analysis, and effective use of technology.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada

I would like to thank all the candidates in advance. Please do stay connected on LinkedIn for future opportunities. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted .

This position reflects a current vacancy with one of our clients. Our Recruiters combine their expertise and AI-enabled technology in the recruitment process.

📌 Senior Financial Accountant (Montreal)
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