Senior Accountant
Toronto, Ontario | Hybrid Contract Position
Location: Toronto, ON
Employment Type: 12 month contract
Rate: $45hr
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Your New Company
A large and well-established organization in the transportation and mobility sector is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its Finance team. The organization is focused on delivering innovative, sustainable, and customer-focused mobility solutions while supporting critical public infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented accounting professional who thrives in a complex, high-volume environment and enjoys working across finance, operations, and technology teams.
Your New Role
Reporting to the Manager, Revenue Accounting, the Senior Accountant will play a key role in supporting revenue accounting, financial controls, reconciliations, audits, and system integration activities. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure financial data integrity, investigate variances, support month-end and year-end processes, and contribute to ongoing process improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Audit daily revenue integrations and validate revenue reporting accuracy.
- Review interface control account balances and investigate discrepancies.
- Perform revenue, payment, deferred revenue, and general ledger reconciliations.
- Prepare journal entries and support month-end and year-end close activities.
- Analyze general ledger accounts to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Identify, investigate, and resolve financial variances while determining root causes.
- Collaborate with IT teams, external consultants, and internal stakeholders to resolve ERP and financial system issues.
- Maintain audit documentation and support internal control compliance requirements.
- Prepare monthly revenue reports, transaction volume analyses, and variance reporting for management.
- Lead assigned portions of internal and external audit engagements.
- Support system upgrades, interface implementations, testing initiatives, and process improvement projects.
- Provide backup support for other finance functions as needed.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Post-secondary education in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- CPA designation is preferred.
- Minimum 3 years of accounting and audit experience.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, reconciliations, internal controls, and financial reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, complex formulas, and data analysis.
- Experience with ERP systems; SAP S/4HANA experience is considered an asset.
- Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize competing deadlines.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement focus.
Nice to Have
- Experience in high-volume transaction environments.
- Exposure to system implementations, integrations, or finance transformation projects.
- Previous experience supporting external or internal audits.
- Experience within transportation, infrastructure, public sector, or regulated environments.
What You'll Get in Return
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid work arrangement offering flexibility and work-life balance.
- Opportunity to work on impactful finance and business transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to complex accounting operations and large-scale financial systems.
- Collaborative team environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
What You Need to Do Now
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