Senior Accountant

Summary

Join Servus Credit Union, Alberta's largest member-owned credit union, as a Senior Accountant for a 4-month temporary, full-time position. Reporting to the Leader of Financial Reporting, you will be responsible for accurate and timely financial reporting, mentoring junior staff, and contributing to ICOFR implementation. This role requires a high level of technical accounting knowledge, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently. The position offers a fully remote option for the right candidate located anywhere in Alberta. Servus Credit Union provides a comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness, vacation, retirement savings, training and development, flexible work options, and competitive compensation.

Requirements

• CPA Designated or within 1 year of designation
• OR, Equivalent experience and proven performance ability to work at an advanced level
• 4 - 6 years of progressive accounting experience depending on the level of education completed
• Experience in preparing Financial Statements and working with Auditors
• Experience in Regulatory reporting
• Exposure to and understanding of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) and COSO framework

Responsibilities

• Maintain up to date knowledge of IFRS and ensure standards are being appropriately applied on a day-to-day basis and in Financial Statement disclosures
• Working knowledge of building Financial Statements and Disclosures
• General working knowledge of internal controls (COSO framework) over financial reporting to be able to help with the maintenance, training and monitoring of controls. This could include working within the department and with other departments to aid in the understanding of responsibilities. As well, an aptitude and ability to learn and apply the COSO framework and actively participate in assessment, recommendations and monitoring
• In depth knowledge in Microsoft Office - Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point, One Note, Teams etc
• Maintain/create process and procedure documents and provide feedback to junior staff on their work in this area
• High level of investigative skills to complete work including identification of variances, ability to research items and prepare a proposed solution to resolve variance or error
• High level of analytic skills to assess patterns of errors, trending and metrics and communicate the findings
• Ability to see where process improvements can be made to create efficiency or to add value
• Assist in training, coaching and leading junior team members
• Understand change and the reasons for it and assist management in rolling out change to the rest of the team to be able to assist with change management within and outside the team
• Review policy documents, as requested, and provide feedback to assist with the maintenance of Accounting Policies

Preferred Qualifications

• Impeccable computer skills
• Keen problem solvers
• Positive, organized, and detail-oriented

Benefits

• Health and wellness
• Vacation
• Retirement savings programs
• Training & Development Opportunities
• Career Advancement Potential
• Flexible work options
• Competitive Compensation including performance-based incentive pay
• Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals
• Opportunities to get involved and give back through an employee volunteer program
• Profit sharing
• Voting for the board of directors