Senior Advisor Accounting Policies and Financial Reporting

Job title: Senior Advisor Accounting Policies and Financial Reporting

Job description: Primary Locations: Montreal, Quebec

Employee Status: Regular

Schedule: Full-time

Your main challenges

• Influence orientations and policies related to your professional area of expertise within your sector, and ensure the buy-in of the parties involved
• Develop innovative approaches and systems and make sure they are carried out and monitored
• Carry out various large-scale projects and mandates that have an important impact on the Bank’s profitability and efficiency
• Interact with managers and different sectors of the Bank to offer expert opinion in complex files and ensure they’re understood
• Understand business issues, identify stakeholders’ needs and propose strategies to help them carry out their activities
• Participate in committees or special projects that require high-level expertise and represent the Bank in dealings with various outside organizations and agencies.

More specifically, you will:

• Analyze and document the accounting treatment of new transactions/products and make sure they comply with current IFRS standards-from accounting to reporting of financial statements
• Analyze and document new IFRS standards, help implement them and give presentations to the various groups concerned
• Carry out ad-hoc accounting analyses and recommend an accounting treatment
• Serve as a point of contact with internal/external auditors for new transactions
• Help prepare/revise financial statement notes for quarterly and annual shareholder reports
• Be a member of various internal working committees and act as an accounting expert when necessary
• Participate in external committees (e.g., Canadian Bankers Association) relating to your field of expertise
• Carry out a comparative analysis (benchmark) of financial statements for the industry and other banks on various topics (new standards/transactions)
• Stay up to date on new normative developments

• A bachelor’s degree in a related field and 8 years of relevant experience, OR a master’s degree in a related field and 4 years of relevant experience, OR a university certificate/an undergraduate diploma from the National Bank University Program and 8 years of relevant experience
• CPA accounting designation; mandatory
• Experience in an accounting firm; an asset
• Relevant expertise in IFRS standards
• Relevant experience in an advisory role as a financial partner
• Relevant experience analyzing transactions (financial statements, reading of contracts, etc.)
• Relevant experience in business acquisition transactions
• Experience writing quarterly and annual financial reports and other public communications
• Teamwork and cooperation skills
• Good analytical and synthesizing skills, especially in complex situations
• Willingness to offer quick and efficient service to clients
• Attention to detail, resourcefulness and initiative
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bilingualism, spoken and written (English and French)

Interested in the position? Apply now!

The Bank has innovated by modernizing its performance evaluation system to better meet our clients’ evolving needs. From now on, the corporate values (expected behaviours) of partnership, agility and empowerment count as much as the business objectives.

Working at National Bank means having access to competitive working conditions, a wide range of employee benefits, a dynamic work environment and telemedicine services.

National Bank values all aspects of diversity and sees it as a tremendous source of wealth. We want to offer an open, respectful work environment where all employees can achieve their full potential. Senior management has made a concrete commitment to promote this value across all sectors of the organization. We’re committed to providing accommodations as needed and ensuring accessibility during the recruitment process and after hiring. If you have any specific needs, please let us know during our initial conversation and we’ll be happy to accommodate you.

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JobField: Finance

Unposting Date: 2021-07-14

Job Number: ACC0001S

Posting Date: 2021-06-30

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