Job Title: Junior Accountant

Job Description

The Junior Accountant supports the corporate accounting function with a strong focus on detailed reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analysis. This role requires a solid corporate accounting experience and a hands-on approach to investigating variances, reconciling intercompany transactions, and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of balance sheet and profit & loss (P&L) reporting across corporate divisions. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, contribute to month-end and year-end close activities, and help maintain robust accounting processes and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to corporate accounting activities.
• Manage and review purchase orders, corporate expenses, and audit-related fees, ensuring proper coding, approvals, and alignment with accounting policies.
• Perform detailed account reconciliations, with a strong emphasis on balance sheet accounts, to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare and review elimination entries and reconcile intercompany transactions between corporate entities.
• Analyze balance sheet and P&L accounts to confirm accuracy, completeness, and appropriate financial presentation.
• Investigate and resolve variances, discrepancies, and outages through in-depth analysis and reconciliation work.
• Perform variance analysis for corporate divisions, identify root causes, and provide clear explanations to stakeholders.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes by completing assigned tasks accurately and within required timelines.
• Assist with audit requests by preparing supporting documentation and responding to auditor inquiries in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with internal departments to resolve accounting issues and continuously improve reconciliation processes.
• Maintain and enhance documentation of accounting procedures, reconciliations, and related controls.
• Demonstrate ownership of assigned work and proactively follow through on issues until resolution.

Essential Skills

• 25 years of experience in corporate accounting, including journal entries, purchase orders, expenses, audit fees, account reconciliations, and elimination entries.
• Proven experience investigating outages and variances, reviewing balance sheet and P&L accounts, and performing variance analysis for corporate divisions.
• Hands-on experience reconciling intercompany transactions between corporate entities.
• Large ERP system experience, such as SAP, NetSuite, or Oracle.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables and formulas.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to step back, review information critically, and assess whether results make sense.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with different departments.
• Demonstrated ownership of work and accountability for accuracy and completeness.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• CPA designation or enrollment in a CPA program.
• Experience with large or national public accounting firms, including financial reporting exposure.
• Experience in a similar industry to corporate divisional reporting environments.
• Experience supporting audit processes and responding to auditor requests.
• Interest in professional growth, with opportunities to transition into a permanent role based on performance.
• Eligibility for benefits support related to CPA program participation if hired into a permanent position.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $33.65 - $36.05/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Vancouver, BC.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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