Finance Specialist POST NUMBER: 485272
Reporting to the AVP, Finance Systems, you will be a key member of the finance team, focusing on a wide range of financial and systems-based projects. This role is perfect for a designated accountant who is passionate about leveraging large datasets to drive financial integrity, process improvements, and strategic decision-making.
You will represent the Finance department in major systems projects, including ERP migrations and implementations, ensuring that business requirements are met and robust testing is completed. You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, liaising with cross-functional teams including IT, Project Management, and other business units to identify, evaluate, and implement new financial systems and enhancements.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Project Leadership & Systems Implementation: the focus of this role will be to represent Finance in systems projects. This includes identifying, researching, and implementing new financial systems and improving current processes. You will lead the review of business requirements and oversee user acceptance testing (UAT), including the development of test plans and assist in progress reporting.
- Data Analysis & Financial Integrity: Work with large, complex financial datasets to provide actionable insights. Analyze significant and complex transactions to recommend appropriate system implementations, ensuring compliance with accounting standards (IFRS), tax regulations, and internal policies.
- Process Improvement & Ad Hoc Projects: Lead and assist in preparing and implementing ad hoc projects related to the planning and reporting of financial results. You will review business processes, identify inefficiencies, and recommend optimizations to support our continuous improvement objectives.
- Collaboration & Support: Act as a liaison between Finance, IT, and other business units to resolve system issues and ensure project goals are met. Provide month-end system support to the Finance department and assist in managing the team’s deliverables to ensure high-quality work that meets all deadlines.
- CPA designation - with strong full-cycle accounting, GL mapping and solid understanding of Debits and Credits
- Analytical & Detail-Oriented: You have a passion for making sense of complex information and large datasets. You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a meticulous approach to ensure accuracy and quality.
- Project-Savvy: You have experience working on financial projects and can navigate a fast-paced, changing environment. You are organized, results-oriented, and can manage multiple work streams effectively.
- Collaborative Communicator: You are a team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills, confident in your ability to articulate ideas and detailed information in an impactful way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Tech-Fluent: You have excellent knowledge of spreadsheet software (e.g., Excel) and word processing. You are conversant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Pay Rate
$50.00/Hour
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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.