Accountant (ECH-ON)

• Work-life harmony with access to an award-winning holistic wellness program,
• Continuous learning through our robust corporate curriculum and education reimbursement program,
• Incredible rewards, travel incentives, and product and service discounts,
• Pay-for-performance and best-in-class recognition programs, and
• Competitive benefits that include a defined contribution plan, personal spending account, and so much more.

• Journal Entries: Prepare and post standard monthly recurring and non-recurring transactions for responsible business units.
• Account Reconciliations: Perform monthly account reconciliation, prepare working paper files and schedules to support work performed including for clearing accounts, and investigate unusual items.
• Bank Reconciliations: Prepare monthly bank reconciliations and ensure all reconciling items are investigated and resolved.
• Reinsurance Entries: Assist in reinsurance bookings and reinsurance submissions to reinsurers; and prepare monthly reinsurance settlements for various reinsurers including details of transactions (premiums, commissions, and paid losses)
• Intercompany Reconciliations: Prepare monthly intercompany reconciliations, investigations, and address differences.
• Schedules: Maintain and assist in the preparation of monthly schedules to support financial statements and management reports. This includes, but is not limited to fixed assets and prepaid schedules.
• Accounts Preparation: Prepare monthly and quarterly accounts for internal and external reporting.
• Financial Statement Analysis: Prepare monthly analysis of insurance programmes and key account balances for responsible business units and investigate any variances and accounting issues which may arise.
• Financial Statements: Assist in preparation of financial statements under IFRS, audit schedules, statutory schedules, and other quarterly /annual reporting requirements such as notes, analysis, commentaries and supporting documents.
• Year End Audit: Prepare working papers for auditor's review, discuss any variances, and provide explanations in addition to assisting the Accounting Manager on year-end audit functions.
• Testing: Assist in testing for automation and system implementation testing.
• Accounting Policies and Procedures: Assist in the documentation of accounting procedures, preparation of accounting policy and testing of accounting processes.
• Other tasks: Other tasks required of the accounting operations team as communicated by the reporting managers from time to time.

• University degree/College diploma in Accounting or Business-related discipline
• Minimum 3 years' related experience
• Enrolled and pursuing professional designation (CPA)
• Knowledge of IFRS, including IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts is an asset
• High level of accuracy with the ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong decision making, problem solving and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to communicate accounting and finance information
• Ability to adapt to other new systems easily
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Office applications
• Advocate for continuous process improvement and optimization

CAA South Central Ontario