Waterloo, ON
The Individual Wealth Financial Control team is responsible for ensuring the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of accounting transactions from the Individual administration systems through to the General Ledger. This includes cash controls monitoring, accounting and reporting related to the Individual Wealth business. The Financial Control Specialist will be responsible for ensuring that all work is complete and accurate, identifying and escalating any issues and offering alternatives for a solution. The successful candidate should possess a natural willingness to support the team in the accomplishment of all objectives, strive to understand client’s needs, create efficiencies and support innovation.

Main Accountabilities:
- Trust Accounting functions for the Dealer back office
- Reconciliation of various suspense and balance sheet accounts
- Completing manual journal entries
- Monitor daily accounting reports and error corrections
- Research discrepancies to reconcile all related bank accounts for the Individual Wealth products
- Responsible for money movement between various systems and bank accounts
- Error tracking and trending to increase accuracy and create process improvements
- Balancing accounting feeder files sent from the administration system to the General Ledger
- Provide consultation to business partners to ensure standard accounting practices are being followed so control issues do not occur
- Engage in process improvement to create efficiencies
- Maintain and create accounting procedures documentation
- Project or adhoc work as required



Advantages
$23/hr
Located in Waterloo
Work for one of Canada's largest financial instuiutions
6 month contract with long term potential

Qualifications
Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Ability to operate effectively as a team member as well as independently with limited supervision
- Solid problem-solving skills, analytical skills and attention to accuracy and detail
- Adaptable, pro-active, and positive approach toward change
- Ability to handle conflicting priorities and meet stringent deadlines

Assets:
- In pursuit of an accounting designation or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrated accounting experience (reconciliation, audit, reporting, etc.)
- Experience working in a Dealer back office environment
- Demonstrated banking processes experience
- Individual Wealth systems knowledge (Univeris, LA, Ingenium Wealth, PRISM)
- Demonstrated ability with a track record of leading/supporting process improvement
- Familiar with Oracle general ledger system


Lindsay,
Khrystyna

Phone Number:
416.861.9888
Fax Number:
416.861.8727