Accountant, Advanced (Insurance Reporting)
Location: Mississauga, ON (Hybrid, minimum 2 days per week in office)
Duration: 12-month contract
About the opportunity
Our client, a leading Canadian financial institution, is looking for a seasoned accountant to join its Insurance Finance Reporting team. You will support monthly and quarterly reporting while helping reduce manual effort in the month-end close as part of an IFRS 17 finance and actuarial transformation program.
What you will do
- Prepare and analyze monthly and quarterly journal entries, financial statements and reporting packages, with accuracy and on tight timelines
- Support Investment Finance reporting, including manual journal entries and investment result analysis
- Investigate results, run variance analysis and handle ad hoc reporting requests
- Document, streamline and automate manual journal entries and month-end close processes
- Support interim and year-end external audit requests
- Research and implement new or changed reporting requirements
- Work with business partners and the wider Finance team to improve consolidated reporting and support forecasting
What you need
- Professional accounting designation (CPA, CA, CGA, CMA) or equivalent experience (3 years)
- 3+ years in financial services in progressive finance roles
- Exceptional Excel skills (essential)
- Power Query experience
- Knowledge of investment products, investment accounting or financial reporting for investments
- Experience working with large data sets and automating manual processes
- Ability to work independently, with strong attention to detail (this is a seasoned role, not a junior one)
- Strong communication skills, and the ability to juggle competing priorities and shifting requests
Nice to have
- IFRS 17 or insurance financial reporting experience
- Power BI or Tableau (dashboards and reports)
- Experience with month-end close automation
Good to know
Quarter-end and year-end periods (February, May, August and November) are critical, so please flag any planned time off up front.
Background checks will be conducted.
Note: We use AI tools to: obtain basic information, detect plagiarism, false employment history or references, categorize your skills, and do an initial match with job posting.
