Senior Accounting Analyst - Toronto, Canada - Mark Anthony Wine & Spirits

Description

At Mark Anthony, we are driven by an unwavering dedication to taste and innovation. We have a history of crafting new to world brands of distinction that have disrupted traditional beverage categories and completely transformed the global beverage industry.

We're on an outstanding adventure. We're going where others aren't, and we're growing like others can't as a result. And we want YOU to help write the next chapters with us.

The Mark Anthony Group of Companies is one of North America's most diversified and successful private beverage companies focused on the alcohol beverage sector. We are an innovative and entrepreneurial organization with a successful track record of building amazing company-owned and third-party brands that anticipate consumer's tastes.

The Role

Reporting to the Accounting Manager, the Senior Accounting Analyst will be assisting with the Canadian Distribution month-end financial close processes, including balance sheet reconciliations, reporting and billing requirements associated with our agency suppliers, and complex analysis of profit and loss accounts relating to advertising and promotional spend.

What You'll Do

• Assisting with the Canadian Distribution financial close processes, including the analysis of financial results, ensuring the accuracy of coding, and the completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Work with a number of data sources to create the billing and reporting needs for allocated agency suppliers, ensuring accuracy in accordance with agreed terms and conditions for each supplier contract
• Record various balance sheet and profit & loss transactions such as sales orders, manual journal entries, accruals, prepaids and internal manual adjustments to ensure a smooth end-to-end process of billing needs
• Perform variance analysis on assigned accounts, researching and correcting account discrepancies, proactively raise issues identified in monthly reporting packages and reconciliations
• Collaboration closely with internal Sales, Marketing and Brand Manager stakeholders
• Work with external customers on aged invoices and invoicing questions
• Building relationships with agency Suppliers to continue to build operating effectiveness
• Post journal entries as required during the month and at month-end
• Contribute to continuous process improvement
• Cross-train on various functions within the Accounting team
• Maintain and update process documentation for areas of responsibility
• Supporting on other special projects, as required

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Completed Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related
• CPA designation (or in the process of pursuing) is required
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Skillset to check documents and data for accuracy and completeness
• Excellence in organizing and prioritizing work as well as dealing with challenging deadlines
• Medium to Advanced Excel skills (large amounts of data sets)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Mark Anthony Group is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds who are eligible to work in Canada.

We thank all candidates for their interest in MAG and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter.

Our Values:

At Mark Anthony, we live by our 5 Core Values every day. They are the cornerstone of our culture and the values that we look for in who we hire

Sense of Urgency

• We value sense of urgency because we are a fast paced company in a fast paced industry
• You need to have a bias for taking action and getting things done

Authenticity

• We value authenticity because we need to stay real
• We all have different strengths that we bring to the table, and we need to work together to appreciate and leverage those strengths

Simplicity

• We value simplicity; why use 50 words when you can use 5?
• We need to be able to take the complex and clarify it into simple and succinct messages

Humility

• We value humility; there is no room for egos here
• We are confident and competent, yet humble. We are a team that supports each other

Trust

• We value trust because unless we are both trusted and trusting, we will not succeed as a team
• We must be able to thrive in ambiguity – there is a bigger picture