Job Description

Job Category: General Finance Management
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Role Purpose
The Accounting Manager is responsible for the full cycle accounting of all business units and consolidated entity results, process improvements, and leading and managing a team.
About the Role
Ensure timely completeness of the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes including preparation and/or review of journal entries, working papers and spreadsheets to support balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis in accordance with company guidelines.
Manage month end checklist and ensure signoff
Manage a team of accountants to prepare accurate, timely and reliable monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and reports as required by management and other stakeholders.
Monitor internal controls to ensure that accounting activities are in accordance with established legal regulatory and company policies and procedures and ensure policy documentation is current.
Ensure completeness of tax reporting and compliance, including monthly, half year review and year end tax returns and payments.
Prepare monthly reporting to Port Authorities, other industry associations, and Statistic Canada surveys.
Assist with statutory and internal audits
Provide leadership and create a rewarding team based culture for the team, including mentorship and development of staff.
Positively drive agreed initiatives, propose new initiatives and adopt a sense of continuous improvement.
Identify process improvement opportunities.
About You
A degree in Finance or Accounting, combined with your CPA (CA, CGA, CMA) designation is required.
A minimum of 6 years' experience post-designation, preferably in industry.
Proven experience and knowledge of IFRS and financial statement preparation.
Experience with managing employees.
Proven leadership skills to develop and motivate a team. Demonstrated ability to foster positive relationships both with and among team members.
Exceptional communication and organizational skills, including the ability to work with all departments and levels.
Sound judgement and analytical thinking that enables decision making, ability to manage projects and prioritize and manage timelines.
Ability to build and maintain good working relationships and achieve buy in and ownership to quality standards/ initiatives.
Advanced proficiency with MS Excel.
Knowledge of Oracle Fusion is highly desirable
Familiarity with PowerBI and/or Maximo would be an asset.
About Us:
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees, spanning 79 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.
We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.
WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.
About the Team:
Our corporate head office houses our Shared Services team and is ideally located in the Metrotown Office Complex which features convenient accessibility from Downtown Vancouver and all surrounding communities. The office complex directly connects to BC's largest shopping center, provides access to the SkyTrain and is a quick stroll to Central Park.
Joining DP World means joining a people-oriented company. You will be amongst great colleagues, enjoying a relaxed environment that values your contributions. We pride ourselves on our openness, approachability, excellence in safety and customer service and our commitment to growth and innovation. We also offer top-notch benefits and perks, including an extensive extended health benefits plan, lifestyle spending account, pension with employer contributions, retirement savings plan, and support for professional development. On top of that, we realize it takes world-class people to run world-class operations, so we offer competitive total compensation packages.

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