Purpose of the Role

The Accounting Manager oversees the day-to-day transactional accounting and procurement-to-payment operations for our cannabis contract manufacturing business, with a particular focus on raw materials, packaging, and multi-category inventory reconciliation. Reporting directly to the VP of Finance with a dotted line to the Financial Controller, this role is heavily execution- and detail-focused, driving the core Accounts Payable functions, managing critical supplier relationships, and ensuring tight internal controls. The ideal candidate is an analytical, systems-savvy accounting professional who excels at purchase order analysis, vendor relationship optimization, and variance tracking. This individual will serve as a vital link between warehouse operations and corporate finance, ensuring all local transactional data seamlessly feeds into our international parent company’s (ASX-listed) accelerated reporting frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Purchase Order Review, Analysis & Controls PO Integrity & Matching: Oversee the thorough review and validation of all purchase orders against supplier invoices and receiving logs (3-way match), ensuring flawless accuracy in pricing, quantities, and general ledger coding. Variance & Price Analysis: Analyze and track purchase price variances (PPV), material usage variances, and freight-in allocations, collaborating with procurement to investigate deviations from standard costing. Commitment Tracking: Maintain real-time visibility over open purchase orders and outstanding commitments, providing cash outflow forecasts to leadership based on upcoming supplier delivery schedules.

Supplier Management & Strategic Relations

Vendor Relationship Optimization: Serve as the primary operational point of contact for key local and international packaging, ingredient, and raw material suppliers, optimizing communication and resolving high-level billing discrepancies. Disbursement Controls & Banking: Collaborate with the finance leadership team to manage secure vendor payment workflows, ensure banking portal control compliance, and support international multi-currency transaction structures. Terms & Performance Analytics: Evaluate supplier performance metrics, tracking volume discounts, rebates, and credit terms to ensure the business is maximizing working capital efficiency.

Accounts Payable Leadership & Compliance

End-to-End AP Management: Direct the full cycle of the accounts payable function, ensuring timely, organized processing of vendor invoices, statement reconciliations, and routine payment runs. Intercompany & Cross-Border Payables: Manage the complexities of cross-border supplier balances, handling foreign exchange (FX) adjustments and tracking intercompany inventory transfers within the corporate group. Audit & Tax Documentation: Maintain pristine, audit-ready payables records that comply with IFRS standards, supporting external auditors with cut-off testing and ensuring proper documentation for provincial cannabis board and excise tax reporting.

Month-End Support & Operational Accounting

Close Acceleration Assistance: Execute assigned month-end closing tasks efficiently to assist the finance team in meeting the strict 5-day global consolidation deadline. Inventory Costing & Reconciliation: Drive the month-end reconciliation between the warehouse management system and the general ledger, accounting for raw cannabis, beverage ingredients, excise stamps, and finished goods. Accruals & Balance Sheet Integrity: Manage the preparation of accurate month-end AP accruals, unvouchered receipts, and supplier statement reconciliations to ensure general ledger integrity.

Systems & Process Improvement

ERP Workflow Automation: Leverage integrated ERP tools (Epicor/MS Dynamics) and expense management platforms to automate digital approval routing, eliminate manual data entry, and streamline the payables lifecycle. Data Analytics & Reporting: Utilize advanced data tools (Power Query, Excel, SQL) to build automated spend analytics, tracking material usage yields and component costs to assist corporate finance with margin analysis. Confidentiality: Protect proprietary contract manufacturing data, including client-specific bill of materials (BOMs), pricing agreements, and vendor networks through strict adherence to internal security controls.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

Professional Designation: CPA designation (or actively pursuing/near completion) preferred. Experience: 2–5+ years of progressive accounting experience within a manufacturing or distribution environment (Cannabis, Consumer Packaged Goods, or Food & Beverage contract manufacturing highly preferred). Skills: Expert-level Excel proficiency and hands-on experience utilizing data manipulation tools (Power Query, SQL) to automate reporting. Solid understanding of inventory costing, multi-currency transactions, and multi-location warehouse environments. Proficiency in Epicor or MS Dynamics is a major benefit. Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven track record of effectively managing vendor conflicts, collaborating with cross-functional warehouse teams, and presenting clean financial schedules to corporate leadership.

Salary

Range from 65,000-75,000 CAD

Don’t meet every single requirement? That’s okay! Studies have shown that women are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Peak we are dedicated to building and promoting a diverse, inclusive, and safe workplace; so, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Peak values the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Diversity at Peak means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths. If you require an accommodation at any point of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be sure to assist and accommodate, as necessary.