Cpa - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Posting Date:
Feb 12, 2024, 10:57:40 AM

Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type:
Permanent

Schedule:
Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad.

EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you'll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world.

Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide.

You'll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success.

And you'll know that you're making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

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Team/position overview

Corporate Finance and Control is a collaborative group that provides financial planning, complex financial analysis, reporting under IFRS, taxation compliance and business reporting for EDC.

Our group is hiring new members to help us meet the needs of our internal customers and is looking for innovative people interested in changing the status-quo for the betterment of this growing and evolving organization.

Our team offers a supportive and collaborative work environment, with opportunities to develop skills and expertise through the wide variety of tasks available on the team.

This position resides in the Corporate Accounting team but will be supporting the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA); a program developed, delivered, and administered on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Discipline Summary

Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, prepares complex financial reports and safeguards the organization's assets.
Performs general accounting activities and maintains accounting and financial records and reports, including general ledger, financial statements, regulatory and management reports.
Prepares, analyzes, and reports accounting transactions ensuring the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles.
Provides financial support including forecasting, budgeting, and analyzing variations from budget.
Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, prepares financial reports and safeguards the organization's assets.
Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional standards, and organization policies.
Provides accounting guidance to ensure conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and company policies and procedures and ensures that relevant accounting standards are appropriately and consistently applied.
Develops and implements new policies and processes to comply with newly issued accounting or financial reporting standards.

Key Responsibilities

Provides complex financial analysis and modeling to support decisionmaking and prepares data and input for reporting, forecasting, and corporate planning purposes.
Creates and maintains management reporting dashboards and reports to provide strategic, forwardlooking financial information on a timely and accurate basis.
Identifies opportunities to make enhancements to data to improve use and understandability.
Reaches beyond received data to review and analyze results with a critical eye for meeting financial reporting requirements and a willingness to challenge others as needed.
Explains difficult/complex issues and, in a manner that fosters mutual respect, uses tact and diplomacy to persuade others to adopt a point of view. Prepares communications and presentations for senior leadership to share insights on both a scheduled and adhoc basis,
Provides insights for financial and nonfinancial stakeholders through variance analysis, forecasting and longrange planning.
Provides financial accounting and prepares financial statements, notes to the financial statements and reports in accordance with IFRS and approves journal entries and reconciliations.
Participates in various system implementation or enhancement projects, including consulting, recommending, and implementing reporting requirements. Researches and interprets new accounting standards/guidelines to assess potential impacts on financial reporting and accounting activities.
Provides advice on internal control issues and recommends and implements reporting enhancements.

Screening Criteria