Lead Cloudera’s APAC accounting function and regional team, overseeing financial reporting, month-end close, statutory accounting, compliance, audits, and continuous process improvement.
Director, Accounting & Consolidation
📜 Description
- Provide accounting guidance to business units and document conclusions in technical accounting memos and position papers.
- Lead month-end and quarter-end close and Group consolidation across the Bank and its subsidiaries.
- Oversee accurate, timely financial reporting, including external financial statements and disclosures.
- Partner with Middle Office on derivatives, hedge accounting, hedge documentation, and accounting strategies.
- Lead finance projects involving complex transactions and intercompany agreements.
- Manage and coach accounting professionals and oversee external audits, quarterly reviews, and related requests.
🛠️ Requirements
- Completion of a recognized CPA accounting designation
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS), with the ability to provide accounting guidance to stakeholders and draft clear accounting memos/position papers to support conclusions
- 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in accounting and financial reporting, including consolidation and financial statement close processes, preferably within financial services
- Strong knowledge of derivative accounting and hedge accounting, including documentation, effectiveness assessment, and financial statement presentation, and proven ability to partner with Middle Office and other stakeholders
- Strong systems and analytical skills, including advanced Excel and experience with ERP and/or consolidation/reporting tools
- Proven success as an Accounting/Finance leader in a director or similar role, preferably in financial services
- Strong organizational skills to be able to set priorities, develop work schedules and timelines, and monitor and track progress
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex accounting matters clearly to senior stakeholders
✨ Benefits
- Competitive discretionary bonus
- Market-leading RRSP match program
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee Share Purchase Plan
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At EQ, we're remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead, every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast, we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending, to trust and credit union solutions.
We've been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.
What's kept us moving? The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions, push back on old assumptions, and look for a better way forward.
If you're driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity.
We can’t wait to get to know you!
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- Completion of a recognized CPA accounting designation
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS), with the ability to provide accounting guidance to stakeholders and draft clear accounting memos/position papers to support conclusions
- 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in accounting and financial reporting, including consolidation and financial statement close processes, preferably within financial services
- Strong knowledge of derivative accounting and hedge accounting, including documentation, effectiveness assessment, and financial statement presentation, and proven ability to partner with Middle Office and other stakeholders
- Strong systems and analytical skills, including advanced Excel and experience with ERP and/or consolidation/reporting tools
- Proven success as an Accounting/Finance leader in a director or similar role, preferably in financial services
- Strong organizational skills to be able to set priorities, develop work schedules and timelines, and monitor and track progress
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex accounting matters clearly to senior stakeholders
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