Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Accounting

About the role

At Northland, we're enablers of change, united by our journey to transform the energy sector into the foundation for a sustainable future. Since our inception, we've been early movers in the energy industry, adopting new initiatives that pave the way for communities across the globe and helping forge their path towards a carbon-neutral landscape. We're a different kind of independent power producer. As developers, owners and operators who are at the forefront of the energy transition, we're uniquely positioned to leave a lasting impact in the regions where we operate. We've expanded our business across Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia to become a global leader, all by bringing together industry experts to find solutions with an entrepreneurial mindset. While our work powers communities across the globe, Northland is powered by our people. As a Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Accounting, you will be responsible for performing a variety of accounting duties including: preparing and managing monthly and quarterly account reconciliations, reviewing expense reports for policy, supporting the accounts payable team and collaborating with other departments to ensure accurate financial information.

Responsibilities

• Accurately prepare and book monthly/quarterly journal entries, including prepaids, accruals and investments.
• Prepare various balance sheet account reconciliations, investigate and correct reconciling items.
• Manage the accounting for fixed assets, including but not limited to creating fixed assets in the sub ledger, calculating and applying depreciation, ensuring accuracy of the schedule and reconciling the fixed asset in progress account.
• Review Corporate Expense Reports for policy and create weekly settlement runs.
• Review and approve all bank entries for support and coding. Provide support to the Accounts Payable team.
• Create purchase orders, receipts and track spending against POs.
• Review journals for support, coding (GL, SC, Work tags), currency, reversals, dates, memos.
• Calculate and record quarterly share based compensation accruals.
• Quarterly summary of transactions for tax team, including: investments, borrowing, dividends, intercompany loan activity, financing fees, leases, etc.
• Monthly and quarterly cash flow forms and group reporting packs for external reporting team.
• Identify improvements/enhancements to the processes in Workday Financial Cloud Solution to ensure Northland is meeting commitments and reporting timelines are met.
• Participate in special projects to support accounting team.

Requirements

• Diligent: You have solid attention to detail, and you follow up with others where needed to ensure outstanding information or actions are complete. You are hands-on and will roll-up your sleeves to complete deliverables within the required deadlines.
• Independent: You are an independent thinker and naturally set your own timescales and milestones to ensure you meet your objectives. You know when you need to ask for help and are comfortable doing so.
• Methodical and organized: You work methodically and relish the opportunity to add structure and order to your work. This will help with the competing priorities you will be managing.
• A Problem-Solver: You proactively identify hurdles and obstacles in your end-goal and don't shy away from working collaboratively to solve these issues.
• Analytical: You can formulate thoughtful and comprehensive analyses that assist in decision-making.
• Collaborative: You are a natural relationship builder and feel comfortable working with a diverse group of stakeholders at different levels.
• A Strong Communicator: You have exceptional oral and written communication skills and can articulate your analyses in a clear and concise manner.
• Collaborative: You build relationships, seek diverse perspectives, leverage effective communication and encourage cross-functional sharing of information.
• Qualifications and Experience
• 3 years of financial accounting experience.
• University Degree in Accounting.
• Understanding of IFRS and its application
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Proficiency in accounting software (Workday Cloud Solution preferred but not required) and advanced spreadsheet skills (e.g., Excel).
• Strong communications skills.
• Excellent data entry skills with a degree of accuracy.
• Familiar with Canadian tax filing requirements, specifically HST and GST.
• Superior organization and time management skills.

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