About the role
We are seeking a Senior Accountant for immediate hire to support our growing Finance team. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented and highly analytical professional who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and is comfortable challenging financial results to ensure accuracy and integrity of the general ledger.
As a Senior Accountant, you will play a key role in strengthening financial reporting by not only supporting the month-end close process, but also reviewing, validating, and explaining financial outcomes. You will work closely with the Controller and leadership team to ensure financial data is accurate, meaningful, and decision useful.
This role goes beyond reconciliation and reporting, and is expected to identify issues at the source, not just correct them at month-end.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the monthly close process, ensuring completeness and accuracy of the general ledger through critical review of reconciliations, working papers, and supporting documentation.
- Review, challenge, and approve journal entries, AP, AR, and project invoicing to ensure appropriate accounting treatment, accuracy, and consistency
- Prepare and critically review complex journal entries and accruals, ensuring appropriate classification and alignment with accounting standards
- Perform meaningful variance analysis on monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results, including clear identification and explanation of underlying drivers
- Deliver insightful financial analysis that goes beyond reporting, translating financial results into actionable business insight
- Proactively analyze GL activity to identify anomalies, trends, misclassifications, and process breakdowns, and drive corrective action at source
- Strengthening integrity of assigned GL accounts by ensuring transactions are properly recorded and validated, not just reconciled
- Monitor aged receivables and collaborate with stakeholders to address root causes impacting collections
- Evaluate and enhance internal controls, identifying gaps and implementing practical improvements to reduce risk and improve accuracy
- Drive process improvements with a focus on upstream accuracy and prevention of recurring errors
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting, including analysis of actuals versus plan with clear explanation of variances
- Partner cross-functionally to improve financial data quality and reporting accuracy
- Support payroll accounting, audits, and external auditor queries with analytical support, not just data provision
- Provide mentorship to junior staff with emphasis on review quality, accuracy, and analytical thinking
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About Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd. (MEMS) is an employee-owned consultancy, providing environmental, health and engineering services across Western Canada since 1998. We are known for our credibility, integrity, technical competence and our talented staff. We continually meet and exceed the needs of our client’s projects because we are prepared technically, professionally and logistically. We are delivery oriented and provide our clients with superior cost-effective service.
Our senior management and employees have many years of applied experience and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences, policy development, planning, regulatory support, assessment, operations, remediation, reclamation and environmental information systems implementation. Combined, our team has worked in over 25 countries, spanning 5 continents. Our knowledge of world ecologies gives us a unique perspective, allowing us to approach problems in fresh inventive ways.
MEMS provides a complete diversified range of services to assist organizations in meeting their environmental sciences and regulatory responsibilities.
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About the role
We are seeking a Senior Accountant for immediate hire to support our growing Finance team. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented and highly analytical professional who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and is comfortable challenging financial results to ensure accuracy and integrity of the general ledger.
As a Senior Accountant, you will play a key role in strengthening financial reporting by not only supporting the month-end close process, but also reviewing, validating, and explaining financial outcomes. You will work closely with the Controller and leadership team to ensure financial data is accurate, meaningful, and decision useful.
This role goes beyond reconciliation and reporting, and is expected to identify issues at the source, not just correct them at month-end.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the monthly close process, ensuring completeness and accuracy of the general ledger through critical review of reconciliations, working papers, and supporting documentation.
- Review, challenge, and approve journal entries, AP, AR, and project invoicing to ensure appropriate accounting treatment, accuracy, and consistency
- Prepare and critically review complex journal entries and accruals, ensuring appropriate classification and alignment with accounting standards
- Perform meaningful variance analysis on monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results, including clear identification and explanation of underlying drivers
- Deliver insightful financial analysis that goes beyond reporting, translating financial results into actionable business insight
- Proactively analyze GL activity to identify anomalies, trends, misclassifications, and process breakdowns, and drive corrective action at source
- Strengthening integrity of assigned GL accounts by ensuring transactions are properly recorded and validated, not just reconciled
- Monitor aged receivables and collaborate with stakeholders to address root causes impacting collections
- Evaluate and enhance internal controls, identifying gaps and implementing practical improvements to reduce risk and improve accuracy
- Drive process improvements with a focus on upstream accuracy and prevention of recurring errors
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting, including analysis of actuals versus plan with clear explanation of variances
- Partner cross-functionally to improve financial data quality and reporting accuracy
- Support payroll accounting, audits, and external auditor queries with analytical support, not just data provision
- Provide mentorship to junior staff with emphasis on review quality, accuracy, and analytical thinking
Not the right fit? Search for Accountant jobs in Sherwood Park, AB
About Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd. (MEMS) is an employee-owned consultancy, providing environmental, health and engineering services across Western Canada since 1998. We are known for our credibility, integrity, technical competence and our talented staff. We continually meet and exceed the needs of our client’s projects because we are prepared technically, professionally and logistically. We are delivery oriented and provide our clients with superior cost-effective service.
Our senior management and employees have many years of applied experience and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences, policy development, planning, regulatory support, assessment, operations, remediation, reclamation and environmental information systems implementation. Combined, our team has worked in over 25 countries, spanning 5 continents. Our knowledge of world ecologies gives us a unique perspective, allowing us to approach problems in fresh inventive ways.
MEMS provides a complete diversified range of services to assist organizations in meeting their environmental sciences and regulatory responsibilities.