<p>We are looking for an experienced Senior Accountant to join our client’s team in Burnaby, British Columbia. This is a 3-month temp-to-perm role, starting 100% on-site for the initial two months, and moving to a hybrid schedule (3 days per week on-site) thereafter. The position sits within the wholesale distribution industry and requires strong analytical and technical expertise. The Senior Accountant will play a key role in supporting financial operations, overseeing reconciliations, and ensuring accurate reporting for multiple retail locations.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Review monthly income statements for 29 retail locations, including 15 corporate and 14 associate stores.</p><p>• Prepare adjusting journal entries to maintain accurate financial records.</p><p>• Support half-year-end closing activities, ensuring all tasks are completed by the deadlines.</p><p>• Conduct variance analyses by comparing budgets to historical data using a floating year-end approach.</p><p>• Reconcile head office accounts and provide detailed reviews of balance sheet accounts.</p><p>• Perform gross margin analysis, inventory assessments, and identify inventory shrinkage.</p><p>• Ensure payroll reconciliation aligns with accounting standards, including vacation balance adjustments.</p><p>• Manage month-end and year-end closings within established timelines of 10 days and 15 days, respectively.</p><p>• Oversee and guide a team of four retail accountants to ensure smooth financial operations.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Director of Finance to join our manufacturing client. In this long-term 18 month maternity contract role, you will oversee financial reporting, consolidations, and internal controls while supporting key stakeholders and ensuring compliance with relevant standards. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the manufacturing industry through leadership and strategic financial management.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Manage the month-end close process and prepare financial statements within established timelines, ensuring accuracy and compliance.</p><p>• Oversee the consolidation of financial data for seven active entities, including corporate headquarters, and prepare necessary elimination entries.</p><p>• Review accounts payable processes to maintain efficiency and accuracy.</p><p>• Lead the preparation of year-end working paper files and act as the primary contact for external auditors.</p><p>• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, including consolidations and inter-company transactions.</p><p>• Provide support for greenhouse operations, including inventory management and related financial activities.</p><p>• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls to align with organizational and regulatory standards.</p><p>• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to address complex financial matters and provide clear, actionable insights.</p>
<p>One British Columbia’s most defining assets are its trees. Towering Cedars and Douglas Firs, hearty pines, spruce, and Larch. The trees and forests of British Columbia have helped define our province and shape our daily lives. The health of our trees and forests is vital to BC’s ecosystem and our economy; our client, a thriving business in BC’s Forestry / Silviculture Industry, is dedicated to tending our forests and helping them continue to thrive.</p><p><br></p><p>Based out of East Vancouver, this organization’s roots lay in tree planting. From there, they have diversified to include many aspects of the silviculture value chain, including reforestation, ecosystem analysis, surveying, and First Nations consultation and partnerships. As the business continues to grow, adapt, and take on new partnerships, the need for a sophisticated and thoughtful Director of Finance has become abundantly clear.</p><p><br></p><p>Reporting to the CEO and Executive Management Committee, the Director of Finance will play a significant and strategic role in developing processes and procedures that allow the business to continue to scale and building management reporting and KPIs to assist in strategic decision making, while ensuring the day-to-day accounting and financial reporting is accurate, timely, and meaningful.</p><p><br></p><p>Key responsibilities would include:</p><p>- Oversight and functioning of the accounting department from accounts payable to the production of financial statements and management reporting</p><p>- Prepare cash-flow reports and projections</p><p>- Evaluate, apply and refine policies, procedures, controls and most methodologies</p><p>- Manage the production of, and monthly monitoring of, the annual budgets and forecasts</p><p>- Work closely with the executive team and operational leaders to ensure efficient and successful organization-wide operations</p><p>- Present monthly financial reports to executive committee and stakeholders</p><p>- Support Finance Department initiatives, such as software and systems upgrades and other departmental or organization-wide improvements, with research, planning, and implementation, as required</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
<p>Our client, a well-established organization in Coquitlam, is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounting Supervisor to oversee daily accounting functions and ensure accurate financial reporting. Reporting directly to the Controller, this role combines hands-on accounting work with some supervisory responsibilities. The Accounting Supervisor will manage core financial processes and provide insights that support broader business initiatives.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p><ul><li>Oversee full-cycle accounting activities, including month-end and year-end close</li><li>Prepare and review job costing reports, ensuring accuracy of inventory, WIP, and completed jobs accounts</li><li>Analyze budget-to-actual results and investigate variances</li><li>Provide financial reporting and cost analysis to support management decisions</li><li>Maintain and reconcile the general ledger to ensure accuracy and timeliness</li><li>Track and manage fixed assets, including acquisitions, disposals, and depreciation schedules</li><li>Coordinate with head office on consolidations for multiple entities</li><li>Prepare financial statements and management reports</li><li>Support budgeting and forecasting activities</li><li>Ensure compliance with accounting standards, policies, and internal controls</li><li>Assist with audit preparation and liaise with external auditors at year-end</li><li>Provide guidance and support to accounting staff when required</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our client, located in North Vancouver, is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Accounts Payable Supervisor to join our Finance team on a 12+ month contract to provide coverage during an extended leave. This role will oversee accounts payable operations, support month-end and year-end closing, and drive process improvements while maintaining strong financial controls.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Supervise the daily operations of the Accounts Payable Department, ensuring policies and procedures are followed, deadlines are met, and financial accuracy is maintained.</li><li>Oversee vendor, supplier, and internal communications to resolve issues as they arise.</li><li>Support the Finance Team with workflow process improvements and participate in special projects.</li><li>Respond to information requests, conduct research, and interpret data for management.</li><li>Review and approve staff-prepared bank reconciliations and employee expense reports to ensure compliance with company policies.</li><li>Prepare monthly schedules and guide the AP team through month-end closing activities.</li><li>Reconcile balance sheet and general ledger accounts (AP, AR, Inventory, Sales, Intercompany, etc.), investigating discrepancies as required.</li><li>Verify GST/PST calculations and assist with other state tax filings.</li><li>Develop reports, verify financial data, prepare/post journal entries, and reconcile accounts in ERP (Syspro).</li><li>Manage cash book journal entries, obtain monthly payment approvals, and resolve variances.</li><li>Assist external auditors by preparing and providing required documentation.</li><li>Perform additional related duties as needed.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>
