Senior Accountant and Reporting Specialist

​About the Role

The Senior Accountant and Reporting Specialist is responsible for the preparation, analysis, and finalization of quarterly and annual financial statements and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting standards and organizational policies. The role also provides strategic advice and technical accounting expertise, supports financial system optimization, leads strategic projects, and serves as a key advisor on financial reporting, controls, risk management, and accounting matters across the organization. It assists with the attainment of key organizational goals and deliverables, including interpreting key financial information to determine sustainability and stability of the workers compensation system, including asset and liability levels, and revenue and expense tracking including administrative expense tracking against budget.

Expected Outputs & Results:

Financial Reporting & Accounting

• Lead the preparation and delivery of quarterly and annual financial statements, related financial reporting and other financial deliverables.
• Provide financial review and oversight of work prepared by unionized finance staff, ensuring accurate analysis, sound accounting treatment, and high-quality reporting, escalating performance concerns to the appropriate manager, as needed.

Technical Accounting & Policy Development

• Conduct research and evaluation of new and emerging accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and industry developments.
• Develop, implement, and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and financial reporting guidance.

External Audit, Tax and Compliance

• Coordinate and lead interim and annual external audit activities, including preparation of working papers, audit schedules, and responses to auditor inquiries.
• Support income tax and HST/GST compliance, including the application of appropriate accounting principles, tax treatments, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, regulatory requirements, governance frameworks, and financial reporting obligations and any related external or internal auditing objectives.

Internal Controls & Enterprise Risk Management

• Serve as a subject matter expert in internal controls and enterprise risk management frameworks, ensuring confidentiality for any strategically related objectives, inputs or outputs.
• Evaluate, design, and enhance financial controls to strengthen governance, mitigate risk, and improve reporting reliability.

Your Experience & Skills

Expected Results/Outputs Continued:

Project Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Act as the Finance lead on strategic projects, cross-functional initiatives, and business transformation activities. Privy to organizationally sensitive information as part of the strategic goals.
• Lead process improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, data quality, control effectiveness, and financial reporting capabilities, up to and including recommendations on changes impacting FTE compliment of the finance team.

Financial Systems & Business Analysis

• In pursuit of the WCBs strategic objectives and funding strategies (short and long term), the role acts as a SME partnering with Finance and Information Technology teams to evaluate, implement, and optimize finance ERP platforms and financial solutions.
• Analyze accounting processes and system workflows to improve financial transaction processing and reporting effectiveness, including recommending system and or process change for finance staff to achieve long term business objectives.

Advisory & Organizational Support

• Provide financial and accounting advice to leaders and partners across the organization.
• Provide financial and accounting guidance, review, and feedback to finance staff; escalating concerns and recommending corrective action to managers as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Commerce (or related subject)
• A minimum of five years’ experience in an operational accounting environment, actively involved in progressively more responsible accounting, roles, duties and activities.
• Must possess, or be in the process of obtaining a CPA, or holds a Masters in Accounting, Finance or a related business field.

Note: Previous experience with complex integrated ERP solutions, and/or IFRS, as well as managing financial data integrity end to end, would be considered assets.