Ar Specialist

**Job purpose**:
**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Process and verification of the bi-weekly payroll for salary and hourly staff; completion of payroll analytics and monthly reconciliation
- Troubleshoot payroll issues in a timely manner; ensuring payments are accurate and made on time
- Prepare monthly deduction remittances, payroll journal entries, working papers and relevant account reconciliations
- Liaise with Human resources with regards to payroll related issues
- Complete weekly sales reconciliation and review of zero-dollar invoices; monthly reconciliation of deferred revenue
- Coordinate with engineering/CSR to ensure requests for Tooling are supported with the appropriate documentation
- Update and maintain off system sales shipments, for example build and ship sales report
- Resolve any Customer invoicing problems with CSR's, involving finance team members as required
- Accounts Receivable Collections and working capital management, ensuring customers pay within terms
- Facilitate payment of invoices due by completing a regular review of AR Aging report and sending out customer statements; prepare weekly AR report with applicable comments for corporate finance
- Maintain filing system for Customer files invoices for auditing purposes
- Daily review of positive pay website and review and confirmation of any cheque exceptions
- Reconcile cleared cheques for both the CDN and US bank accounts
- Reconcile bank accounts on a weekly basis including adjusting entries and completion of the monthly reconciliation of intercompany GL accounts with corporate
- Set up wire payments to meet discount deadlines; maintain payment schedule for Core Finance
- Prepare monthly summary of FX Gain/Loss transactions and complete monthly revaluation FX journal entry
- Set up wire/ACH payments as required for vendor payments
- Process weekly payments (cheque runs, wire/ACH payments, online Bill payments / EFT)
- Cashflow Reporting & Forecasting; Daily/ weekly as required to HPI Finance Dept & corporate finance
- Issue cheques as requested by HR for Payroll (missed hours, missed vacation)
- Assist in data collection for our annual SRED claim
- Participate in quarterly/annual financial audit requests
- Completion of assigned month end tasks, account reconciliations and financial analysis, ensuring completeness and accuracy; adhering to month end close schedule
- Strict compliance to SOX rules as applied to position, ensuring internal controls for this role are followed
- Utilizes ERP as required
- Completes all other duties as assigned

**Qualifications**:

- University degree in accounting /Business with minimum of 2 years experience in processing Canadian Payroll and Accounts Receivable
- Knowledge of balance sheet reconciliations and general ledger
- Financial analysis and investigation
- Strong excel skills, able to create and use pivot tables, filters, v-lookup, data mining skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding financial data and employee files

**Competencies**:
**Attention to detail -** Able to focus on and deal with detailed information; accurate, does not make mistakes; uses systems and procedures to deal with detailed information

**Ethics -** Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality

**Organizational skills -** Information organized and accessible, maintains efficient work
- space, manages time well

**Analytical thinking -** Able to break problem down into components, reviewing facts, seeking possible causes and possible consequences; refers to variety of sources for data; remains objective without introducing personal bias

**Essential Functions**:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**Work Environment**:
This job operates in a production manufacturing environment, however this role is located in an office setting.

**Position Type/Expected Hours of Work**:
This role is primarily M-F working eight hour days.

**Travel**: No

**Other Duties**

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.