Accounting controller

Salary :

Activity area : Finance and Insurance

Post category : Accounting, Finance and Insurance

Province : Quebec

Region : Montreal and surroundings

Recruiter : Richard Portelance

Contact us : rportelance@stratoexec.ca

Job description :

In this capacity and in compliance with the Accounting Control Guide which serves as his/her reference, the Accounting Controller helps to define a control programme, implements it, identifies accounting anomalies, orders and steers action plans where necessary, and centralises and escalates accounting alerts.

Main activities:

• Daily and monthly controls
• Check the accounting balance for consistency and variations and report on any anomalies identified
• Check and correct the declarative file (ESTD) before monthly distribution
• Check the other accounting databases (extractions from cash reconciliation and other tools)
• Balance the accounts
• Check the evidencing of accounts
• Organise and participate in the pending cash items monthly meetings for the entities and his/her perimeter and prepare/check the tables presented at these meetings
• Participate in the monthly Group Committee meeting of the Financial Affairs Department
• Quarterly closing financial statements
• Check the documents substantiating the balance prepared by 1st level

Accounting Controllers:

• Verify the exhaustiveness of the balances substantiated
• Check the validity and pertinence of data and comments
• Check the quality and reliability of the audit trail

Compile the account closing file sent to the statutory auditors:

• Be responsible for organising meetings with the statutory Auditors
• Balance the accounts
• Prepare, control and submit the supporting documents
• Respond to surveys conducted by external auditors

Formalise the results of 2nd level accounting controls:

• Prepare the key accounting control files sent to Permanent Controls
• Define and validate the audit trails of the accounting control files
• Participate in the quarterly Provisions Committee meetings for his/her entity and perimeter
• Other related duties

Skills and qualifications :

• Know the accounting standards and regulations
• Know the banking and financial standards
• Being organised/methodical
• Ability to summarise and analyse
• Diligence/Reliability
• Management of priorities