Cpa - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Posting Date:
May 16, 2024, 12:57:38 PM

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 will be supporting the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA); a program developed, delivered, and administered on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Discipline Summary

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.
Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, prepares financial reports and safeguards the organization's assets.
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.
Provides financial support including forecasting, budgeting, and analyzing variations from budget.
Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional standards and organization policies.
Develops and implements new policies and processes to comply with newly issued accounting or financial reporting standards.

Key Responsibilities

Provides financial accounting and prepares financial statements, notes to the financial statements and reports in accordance with IFRS and approves journal entries and reconciliations.
Reaches beyond received data to review and analyze results from business units with a critical eye for meeting financial reporting requirements and a willingness to challenge others as needed.
Identifies opportunities to make enhancements to data to improve use and understandability.
Participates in various system implementation or enhancement projects, including consulting, recommending and implementing reporting requirements.
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.
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.
Creates and maintains management reporting dashboards and reports to provide strategic, forwardlooking financial information on a timely and accurate basis.
Provides complex financial analysis and modeling to support decision making and prepares data and input for forecasting and corporate planning purposes.

Screening Criteria

Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Commerce or other relevant discipline.
Professional accounting designation such as CPA or equivalent.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in business, accounting and/or financial analysis.
Experience working with large, complex databases.
Advanced knowledge of Power BI, Power Query and DAX.
Advanced knowledge of IFRS, accounting and financial analysis principles and practices.
Excellent MS Excel, Word a