Position Overview
The Senior Financial Accountant plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of the organization’s financial operations. This position is responsible for overseeing day-to-day accounting activities, supporting month-end and year-end close processes, and producing timely, accurate financial reporting for review by the Controller. The role also provides leadership to financial accounting staff, ensures adherence to internal controls, and contributes to continuous process and compliance improvements across the organization.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, external accountants, auditors, and regulatory bodies, this position supports operational excellence by strengthening financial controls, standardizing workflows, and reducing risk. The ideal candidate brings strong technical accounting expertise, a detail-oriented mindset, and the ability to balance hands-on execution with oversight and process improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversight of transactions and accruals into the accounting system to ensure accurate bookkeeping as well as oversight of monthly reconciliations of expenses.
- Pay & issue invoices to suppliers and customers in a timely matter.
- Prepare monthly financial reporting (budget, cash flow projection, consolidated FSs) for Controller review.
- Monthly sales expense tracking and reporting.
- Ensure financial compliance with regulatory bodies.
- Coordinate internal and external audit workflows and deliverables.
- Provide information to external accountants for the creation of financial statements.
- Assist with tax document preparation.
- Monthly revenue calculation, tracking and reconciliation.
- Direct oversight of financial accountants’ day-to-day responsibilities.
- Conduct internal control testing by reviewing documented workflows against actual practices to validate adherence, assess control effectiveness, identify deficiencies, and recommend corrective action to strengthen compliance and operational reliability.
- Assist in the creation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of process documentation across all functional areas to ensure clarity, consistency, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to map current state workflows, validate process steps, and define standardized future state procedures that support efficiency, risk reduction, and regulatory alignment.
- Assist with various operations projects as required.
Behaviours, Skills, and Competencies
- 3-5 years’ full-cycle accounting experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business, with a specialty in Finance or Accounting.
- CPA designation or working towards completion.
- Internal controls or SOX related experience would be an asset.
- Strong understanding of month end reporting procedures.
- Team player with strong analytical, organizational and prioritization skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient with Excel & experience with QuickBooks Software.
Applications: To learn more or apply for this role, please send a resumé by email to careers@kinsted.com. The posting will be open until a suitable candidate is found. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
