Accountant - Cash & Reconciliations

About the role

IKO Industries Ltd., a Canadian-owned manufacturer of roofing and building materials, is hiring an Accountant, Cash & Reconciliations in Ennis. The role covers timely and accurate cash accounting and bank reconciliations across about 30 North American bank accounts, and will take over much of the bank reconciliation work of a position being phased out while standardizing the process and advancing automation. It also supports selected corporate income tax accounting and other balance sheet activities.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and own bank reconciliations for about 30 accounts across multiple North American legal entities.
• Investigate and resolve unreconciled items, timing differences, duplicate entries, stale reconciling items and cash-posting issues.
• Standardize bank reconciliation templates, procedures, supporting documentation and review-ready schedules.
• Partner with Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll Accounting and site finance to resolve cash and posting discrepancies.
• Support the design, testing and implementation of automated bank reconciliation processes.
• Prepare cash-related journal entries and maintain related balance sheet accounts.
• Monitor aged reconciling items and escalate unresolved issues in line with close and control expectations.
• Support selected corporate income tax accounting (accruals, journal entries, reconciliations and schedules); tax return preparation is outside the primary scope.
• Support month-end and year-end close and provide documentation for internal and external audit requests.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate, simplify and automate high-volume reconciliation and cash accounting.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field; CPA designation or progress toward a CPA is an asset.
• About 2-4 years of accounting experience, preferably in a multi-entity, shared-services or manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience with bank reconciliations, cash accounting and balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Ability to investigate high-volume transactional differences and bring reconciling items to timely resolution.
• Demonstrated continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to challenge manual processes.

Required skills

• Experience with JDE or another large ERP is preferred.
• Experience with reconciliation automation tools, bank interfaces or process automation is an asset.
• Strong Excel skills, attention to detail and disciplined documentation habits.

What we offer

• Salary from $74,000 to $90,000.
• Health insurance (including virtual health and HCSA), dental and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, long-term and short-term disability coverage.
• RRSP match, paid vacation and floating days.
• Employee assistance program, engagement events, awards and recognition, tuition reimbursement, service awards and employee perks and discounts.