Associate Analyst, Accounting

**Job Title**: Associate Analyst, Accounting

**Department**:
Looking to unbox your full potential? **Find YOUR Fit** at the ALDO GROUP.

**FIND YOUR FIT**
- Recognition programs to showcase your talent
- Tools to support and help them to reach their Career Goals. (Training Offers, Scholarship Programs, LinkedIn Learning and more).
- To be part of a company that takes a stand on issues affecting people, the environment, and our partners
- Summer Fridays (because Summer is for fun)
- Purchase discount on merchandise sold in all our divisions.
- Family & Friends events with discounts on our products
- Subsidized cafeteria & daycare
- Subsidized public transportation and free parking
- On-campus gym with access to a trainer
- Flex schedules and possibility to work from home
- Sick days
- Attractive total compensation

**YOUR ROLE**

The Associate Analyst is an integral part of the Accounting team, assisting the Manager Accounting with the month-end close. Specifically, the accounting analyst prepares bank reconciliation and manages the daily bank clearing for multiple bank accounts. All necessary adjusting journal entries are made by the accounting analyst such as to agree the month end cash balances with that of the bank.
- Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the accounting systems and internal processes to identify opportunities to improve reporting quality, reliability, timeliness of information.
- Monitoring FEBAN to make sure the interfacing process from the bank to SAP is done properly. Following up with IT team to improve this process and solving any issue.
- Maintaining financial records for multiple companies by analyzing balance sheets and general ledger accounts related to cash.
- Working closely with the Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and Treasury teams to ensure an accurate bank clearing process is done, limiting any open items at month end. Clearing checks deposits and payments based on the coding information received from these departments.
- Assisting the payroll team by clearing all payroll transactions, wage subsidy deposits, DAS payments, Worker’s compensation, payroll alimonies, RRSP/401 K and payroll remittances in CA11 and US11.
- Posting the monthly sales tax payments and prepayment entries and clearing the payments from the bank.
- Working closely with the store banking team to post all store-related banking transactions that are not interfacing to SAP.
- Preparing bank reconciliations and managing the daily bank clearing for multiple bank accounts
- Working with the taxation team (unclaimed property) to prepare an updated list of outstanding US checks.
- Providing specific financial reports for special project requests (ie: OS checklist every Mondays for treasury team’s weekly cashflow report).
- Posting all necessary adjusting journal entries.
- Assisting in the preparation of year-end audit files and analysis for external auditors.
- Participating in the improvement & implementation of continuous improvement project for accounting processes and internal control procedures
- Securing financial information by completing database backups for the clearing JE posted.

**DO YOU HAVE THE PROFILE WE'RE LOOKING FOR?**
- University degree in Accounting.
- 1+ year of relevant experience with bank reconciliations within a multi-divisional, multi-currency, large company setting.
- nowledge and experience with SAP required.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Good level of autonomy.
- Inter-personal skills and ability to collaborate in a team.
- Detail oriented.
- Positive attitude to challenges/obstacles/change.
- Organized.

**WE'RE ON A JOURNEY TO CREATE A WORLD OF LOVE, CONFIDENCE AND BELONGING**

The ALDO Group has been on this journey for over 50 years. We believe that our passionate associates are at the heart of our success, and that with them we will lead into our future with kindness.

Job Requirements:

- University degree in Accounting.
- 1+ year of relevant experience with bank reconciliations within a multi-divisional, multi-currency, large company setting.
- nowledge and experience with SAP required.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Good level of autonomy.
- Inter-personal skills and ability to collaborate in a team.
- Detail oriented.
- Positive attitude to challenges/obstacles/change.
- Organized.

**Job Snapshot**:
**Employee Type**: Full-Time

**Location**: Montreal, Quebec (Onsite)

**Job Type**: Finance

**Experience**: Not Specified

**Date Posted**: 09/19/2024