Senior Accountant

AG Recruitment•Vancouver, BC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

A local success story Environmental Company is currently looking for a Senior Accountant to join their tight knit accounting team. This role involves supporting the full-cycle accounting function in a multi-entity environment, ensuring accurate financial reporting in accordance with ASPE, including consolidations and intercompany/flow-through reconciliations. The position aims to strengthen the month-end close process by driving accountability, improving close timelines, and ensuring the timely, accurate completion of reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting deliverables. It also provides hands-on technical accounting support, serving as a resource for complex transactions, and involves reviewing and enhancing existing accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls. The Senior Accountant will support the preparation and review of financial reporting, partner with other finance staff, perform detailed financial and variance analysis, and support the Director of Accounting and CFO with ad hoc analysis and reporting matters. Additionally, the role focuses on identifying process gaps, driving initiatives to streamline workflows, and maintaining compliance with internal standards and technical accounting requirements. The position also contributes to team leadership and performance management.

Requirements

CPA
Proven Assistant Controllership experience
Proven experience connecting analysis to solving problems
Netsuite would be helpful
Process improvement
Fast learner
Not afraid to question the status quo
Inquisition / no assumptions.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a project-based consultancy would be very helpful.
Knowledge of accounting process around controlling interest in partnerships.

Responsibilities

Support the full-cycle accounting function in a multi-entity environment, ensuring accurate financial reporting in accordance with ASPE, including consolidations and intercompany/flow-through reconciliations.
Strengthen the month-end close process by driving accountability, improving close timelines, and ensuring the timely, accurate completion of reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting deliverables.
Provide hands-on technical accounting support to the team, serving as a resource for complex, unusual, or non-routine transactions and ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and documentation.
Review and aim to enhance existing accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to improve accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across the function.
Support the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reporting, ensuring deadlines are met and outputs are complete, accurate, and decision-useful for senior leadership.
Partner closely with accounts payable, invoicing, and broader finance staff to elevate performance, clarify responsibilities, set expectations, and support ongoing development.
Perform detailed financial and variance analysis, identify root causes of issues, and recommend corrective actions or process improvements to support stronger operational and financial performance.
Support the Director of Accounting and CFO with timely responses to financial reporting matters, operational questions, and ad hoc analysis for leadership decision-making.
Identify process gaps and drive initiatives to streamline workflows, optimize resource utilization, and improve the overall effectiveness of the accounting department.
Maintain compliance with internal standards, technical accounting requirements, and best practices while fostering a disciplined, control-oriented accounting environment.
Contribute to team leadership and performance management by helping establish objectives, monitoring progress, and reinforcing a high-accountability culture within the finance team.