Job Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Canada Finance Manager – Accounting and Tax has responsibility the statutory accounting, tax, financial reporting, and much more for BCG Canada. This role reports to the North America Finance and Accounting Director.

In this role, you'll work with:

• Full Canada Finance Team – Accounting and FP&A divisions
• Canada Office and System Senior Leadership
• Business Services Team Managers
• HR Team and Operations (Facilities) Team
• N.A. & Global Finance Teams incl. “Nexus” support office in Atlanta

YOU'RE GOOD AT

Financial Accounting and Reporting:

Accountable for the smooth functioning financial accounting and reporting functions for BCG Canada. Some specific tasks include:

• Ownership of General Ledger, working with team members to ensure accuracy and good understanding of activities and trends
• Ownership of operating costs, monitoring and reporting costs while ensuring accuracy and reasonableness incl. escalation where required
• Driving mobility accounting in accordance with global policy and local reporting requirements. This includes secondment accounting, cross office staffing and cross border accounting
• Ownership of month-end process for BCG Canada, including performing review of results, including sign-off of both statutory and management accounting results
• Oversight of approval queues including: employee expenses; employee timesheet, A/P and CAPEX
• Monthly review of general ledger account reconciliations
• Monthly review of bank and investment account reconciliations
• Key liaison with PwC regarding all accounting matters
• Lead the identification and implementation of new and changing accounting standards (CDN and US GAAP)
• Complete mandatory STATS CAN surveys as required

Taxes:

Accountable for ensuring BCG Canada satisfies its tax obligations to various authorities, including the following:

• Oversight of employer compliance requirements re. assessing taxable benefits against applicable employee benefits and perks
• In conjunction with the NA Finance and Accounting Manager, responsible for the preparation of the underlying temporary and permanent difference schedules for corporate tax returns
• Liaising with PwC and other corporate tax experts on various corporate tax matters
• Oversight of the indirect tax compliance requirements and filings, including annual filings (i.e. payroll taxes, GST, N/R Tax, Excise Tax, etc.)
• Oversight of mobility-driven tax process for both imports and exports, including intercompany hypo-tax. Monitoring exported staff for possibly tripping tax residency in host location.
• Liaise with HR team, Payroll team, Global Mobility team plus external mobility tax advisors as required
• In conjunction with the NA Finance and Accounting Manager, ownership of all government tax audits
• Ensure all periodic plus annual tax filings are performed for all tax accounts and government agencies

Planning:

Accountable for ensuring sound projections have been used during all 4 planning cycles each year. Some specific tasks include:

• Ownership of operating costs – including preparation of many budgets plus review and approval of budgets received from other functions
• Responsible for ensuring pyramid, capacity, revenue, compensation and cost plans are all sound individually and also when rolled-up into a P&L projection
• Responsible for ensuring all ancillary questionnaires/ templates are completed timely and accurately

Asset Control:

• Ensure assets are quantified, tracked, controlled and reported accurately, including periodic testing for accuracy

Treasury:

• In conjunction with the lead accountant, actively review and monitor the cash flows for all bank accounts, ensuring excess cash balances are invested optimally (protection and rate of return)
• Oversee the banking relationship with our transaction bank
• Key liaison to global treasury on all cash flow matters

Risk Management:

• Lead contact for BCG Risk Management reviews and follow up, specifically for statutory finance matters
• Oversight of all insurance related matters, including ensuring that assets are insured optimally and that COIs are ordered as required
• Ensuring policies have been shared and re-shared as required

Accounts Payable – Vendor and Employee Expenses:

Accountable for ensuring that BCG Canada Accounts Payable obligations are met including the following:

• Overall responsibility for relationship with BCG India processing team
• Identify procurement opportunities including competitive tendering and risk reviews for proposed new vendors
• Review internal key KPI’s error logs to make improvements
• Review vendor invoices on-line, most often as the final approver
• Review EFT payment runs on a weekly basis (supplier and employee)

Private Pension Plan:

• Support the Lead Accountant with Group RRSP pension plan employer contribution calculations
• Support HR Manager and COO with periodic review of existing plan to ensure it continues to be an optimal program for our employees

Employee Compliance:

• Ensure all client-facing staff have submitted an on-time timesheet each week. Remind as needed.
• Ensure employees well-understand our expense policy and are abiding by all associated rules when making timely expense claims. Re-train and escalate as needed

System and Process Enhancements:

• Key local contact for rollout of global accounting and tax initiatives
• Identify opportunities for process improvements including leveraging business intelligence reporting, machine learning and other platforms
• Active participant / volunteer on regional and global finance projects

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

Qualifications:

• CPA

Experience:

• 10+ years corporate experience, preferably in a professional services environment
• Microsoft Excel advanced knowledge highly preferred
• General ledger systems (Oracle and / or SAP is an advantage)
• People management
• Proficient knowledge of corporate and indirect tax

Personal Capabilities:

• Attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills – includes self-management and management of team and their priorities
• Exceptional communication skills – oral and written
• Ability to work autonomously and under pressure to meet deadlines
• Resourceful and responsive
• Excellent interpersonal skills as required to deal with all levels of organization
• Able to proactively manage multiple priorities, work to tight deadlines and perform well under pressure
• Willingness and flexibility to perform a wide range of tasks
• Is personally accountable, and demonstrates integrity and respect for others
• Flexibility in working hours
• Ability to communicate using business French is a plus

YOU'LL WORK WITH

Members of our finance team are responsible for preserving the intellectual capital, assets, and integrity of BCG. We make a decisive impact on the firm’s direction, performance, and risk-management models. Finance jobs include accounting and reporting, planning and analysis, tax and treasury, financial systems, payroll, and executive compensation.