Senior Accountant

Freightera • Vancouver, BC

22d • CA$70,000 - CA$85,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Freightera Logistics Inc. is seeking a strong and motivated Senior Accountant to join their Vancouver finance team. This is a hands-on role with significant exposure to the company’s financial operations, management team, and external accountants. The successful candidate will play a key role in the development of the accounting and financial reporting function, taking an active part in month-end and year-end reporting, financial statement preparation, reconciliations, tax compliance, internal controls, and external review engagements. Experience with IFRS is strongly preferred. This role offers significant advancement potential, with the goal for the successful candidate to develop into a Controller position within approximately 1-2 years, with opportunities for broader finance leadership responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field
• Approximately 3–5+ years of progressive accounting experience
• Strong full-cycle accounting experience
• Experience preparing financial statements and supporting schedules
• Experience participating in or leading an external review engagement
• Strong understanding of month-end and year-end closing processes
• Experience with account reconciliations and general ledger accounting
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong accounting fundamentals and financial statement knowledge
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to independently investigate and resolve accounting issues
• Confidence working directly with external accountants and management
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and reporting deadlines
• Good professional judgment
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to improve existing accounting processes rather than simply follow them
• Interest in developing leadership and management responsibilities

Nice To Haves

• CPA designation strongly preferred
• Candidates who have completed the CFE or are actively progressing toward their CPA designation may also be considered
• Experience with IFRS is strongly preferred
• CPA designation
• Experience independently coordinating or leading a review engagement
• Experience preparing financial statements under IFRS
• Experience working directly with external accountants or auditors
• Public accounting experience or a combination of public practice and industry experience
• Experience with multi-currency accounting
• Experience in transportation, logistics, technology or another transaction-intensive business
• Experience reviewing or supervising junior accounting staff
• Experience developing accounting policies, procedures and internal controls
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting and management reporting

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate monthly and year-end closing processes
• Prepare and review journal entries, accruals and account reconciliations
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger and balance sheet accounts
• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting schedules
• Analyze financial results and investigate unusual balances and variances
• Support preparation of management reporting and financial analysis
• Review accounts receivable, accounts payable and other accounting balances
• Prepare and maintain documentation supporting financial statement balances
• Coordinate and support annual external review engagements
• Prepare schedules and working papers requested by external accountants
• Respond to accounting and review engagement questions and follow through on outstanding items
• Assist with the preparation and review of GST/HST, PST and other tax filings
• Support cash-flow, working-capital and balance sheet reporting
• Assist with accounting treatment and financial reporting under IFRS
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls and documentation
• Review work completed by junior accounting staff and provide guidance where required
• Work with management on budgeting, forecasting and other finance projects
• Take increasing ownership of the company’s accounting and financial reporting function as experience and responsibilities grow

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is $70,000–$85,000 per year, depending on experience, qualifications, CPA status and the candidate’s ability to independently manage senior-level accounting responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior