Analyst, Accounting - Brampton, Canada - Indigo Books & Music
Description
Company Description
Dedicated to telling stories and creating experiences, Indigo is always looking for bright, energetic and customer-focused people who can help bring our exciting mission to life in one of our more than 170 Indigo, Indigospirit, Chapters and Coles stores across Canada.
We offer a variety of exciting opportunities at our retail stores, distribution centres, and home office for people who share our passions and want to be part of a dynamic and enriching culture.
WHO WE ARE
- We love books and all things beautiful
- We are Canada's Cultural Department Store
- Books are our heart and our soul and Great Books are JUST the Beginning
We play by the following rules:
- We exist to add joy to our customers' lives each and every time they interact with us and our products
- Our job is to create joyful moments for our customers
- We treat each other the way we'd treat a valued friend
- We inspire each other to do our best work
- We seek to ignite creativity and innovation every day
- We give back to the communities in which we operate
The Analyst, Accounting & Treasury will report directly to Senior Manager, Accounting / Controller and be closely supported by the Treasury Team Lead.
KEY PERFORMANCE METRICS
- Meet all period deadlines within the department necessary to facilitate accurate period end close
- Provide timely response and feedback to internal queries for information and/or assistance
- Policy and practice adherence while also ensuring IFRS compliance
- Satisfaction of all business partners in team outputs (finance, procurement, receiving, etc.)
- Strong communication skills to finance management discussing challenges, opportunities, risks, and milestones
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Functional
- Evaluating historical and current financial data to understand a company's financial conditions, with a primary focus on the balance sheet, while supporting the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team on the Profit & Loss (P&L) analysis
- Prepare journal entries with sufficient supporting documentation and rationale for period close
- Indepth completion of account reconciliations, understanding the balances and investigating unreconciled items for timely resolution
- Streamlining internal procedures, identify and implement automation where possible
- Collaborating with business partners to assess and enhance business processes
- Studying industryspecific business trends and research data.
- Provide reporting, backup and ad hoc requests for external and internal auditors
- Financing reporting requirements to be completed monthly and quarterly
- Guiding businesses and individuals in making informed investment decisions.
- Assessing financial data, identifying economic trends, and exploring potential investments.
- Support the Treasury lead to regularly update the cash flow forecast and manage weekly payments cash flow
- Concur Expense administrator for the organization. This includes managing out of pocket expenses, reviewing for policy compliance, and determine required accrual for period close.
- Work closely with the AP team to process weekly payments both electronically and by manual cheque
- Administer all bank transactions and oversee data recording, including clearing cheques, addressing exceptions, coordinating discrepancies with stores, etc.
- Maintain relationship with bank and service providers
- Opportunity to be involved in supporting transactions, processes and preparation of financial statements for the Love Of Reading charitable foundation under Indigo
- Support treasury initiatives to evaluate and optimize banking structure, functionality and payment methods set up in ERP to streamline the process
- Review and support the improve of policies related to Treasury such as Corporate Cards and Travel & Expense working directly with the Procurement, Legal and HR teams
- Generate financial analysis and insights to support business cases or post evaluations of initiatives
- Assist in developing and implementing opportunities to improve and streamline business processes
- Adhoc requests and projects as assigned
- Act as an advocate for the customer by placing them at the forefront of all design and decisionmaking processes
- Proactively identify and anticipate customer expectations and needs
- Embrace and seek out technology that creates automated solutions to improve efficiency and data integrity
- Challenge the status quo by consistently identifying areas for improvement, diagnosing issues, and working to resolve them
- Collaborate with others to drive flexible and iterative solutions, quickly and easily
- Share technical knowledge with others and actively seek to learn from those more knowledgeable than yours
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