Manager, Financial Reporting

**Who we are**
You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

**As a Manager, Financial Reporting & Accounting Advisory Services your responsibilities will include**:

- Participate in the growth of the FRAS practice
- Participate in engagements with respect to the execution and delivery of complex accounting advisory projects, including facilitating training sessions and leading implementation work on new standards and/or transitioning to a new frameworks
- Provide complex accounting support to other engagement teams, which could include acting as a sounding-board or a “second set of eyes”
- Build and maintain relationships with appropriate levels of client management,
- Understand the client’s industry sector and recognize key performance drivers, business trends, and new technical and industry developments
- Continuously learn and share knowledge across the firm and with clients
- Design and prepare deliverables tailored to client needs
- Build relationships that enable seamless collaboration with other service lines in order to provide the client with an exceptional client experience
- Participate in National and local business development initiatives

**Be Grant Thornton**
If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens

**Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Manager, Financial Reporting & Accounting Advisory Services? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick**:

- A Canadian CPA
- A minimum 5 years’ relevant experience from public accounting
- Experience in external financial statement audits or experience (US GAAP) in the technical accounting department of a public company
- Experience researching complex accounting issues under IFRS and forming a proposed approach, experience in other accounting frameworks would be an asset
- Ability to explain complex ideas so they are easily understood by others
- Experience facilitating technical accounting training and/or other relevant training
- Impeccable client relationship skills
- A dedication to teamwork and leadership

At Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.

**What's in it for you?**

Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more

**Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?**

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