Job Description

The Kenan Advantage Group Inc., (KAG), is North America\xe2\x80\x99s largest tank truck transporter and logistics provider, delivering energy commodities, specialty products, merchant gases, and food products across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Our Canadian operating companies, known as KAG Canada, include Westcan Bulk Transport, RTL Construction, Les Distributions Carl Beaulac, Paul\xe2\x80\x99s Hauling, Kentrax Transport, Connectrans Logistics and Valley West Transport \xe2\x80\x93 One team driven to make a difference! If you want to contribute to KAG\'s excellent tradition of innovation and leadership in the logistics and transportation industry, we invite you to apply!

This role is a key member of the KAG Canada team and provides analysis of financial business drivers to support the decision making of the executive and senior managers.

Our ideal candidate:

• Post-secondary degree combined with CPA (or equivalent).
• 5-7 years of applied work in Budgeting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP & A) or big data analysis to drive budgeting, forecast and modelling tools to support operational decision making (e.g., 700,000 lines of data is not uncommon in our analysis).
• Accounting and Financial experience with multi-location or multi-business environment combining for over $100M in revenue. We have over 20 terminal locations and unique businesses spanning from British Columbia to Qu\xc3\xa9bec.
• Likes to challenge status quo, wants to understand business model, its levers and environment prior to taking to spreadsheets.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting, controlling and finance operations.
• Proven practical and applied experience using Power BI. Able to lead and teach a small team to use the tool for the cross-functional application lead by the Accounting and Finance team with support of Business Applications (BA) and Intelligence (BI).
• Above average Microsoft Excel skills when compared against other accounting and finance professionals.
• Able to communicate effectively across all levels of our global organization.

About the role:

• Works with Accounting and Operational teams to timely and effectively enhance, implement, and maintain accounting reports, processes, and analytical tools in line with leadership priorities.
• Ensures new reporting and analytical tools are developed, tested, and implemented in accordance with appropriate change management processes and controls to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency. Adheres to sound change management methodologies including requirement documentation, analysis and design, quality assurance, financial data management and internal controls.
• Provides thought leadership in the areas of best practices of financial analysis, financial reporting, financial data management, internal controls, and software tools. Works with Accounting Leadership and other departments to identify and prioritize current and future accounting, reporting and analytical requirements.
• Run annual budgets and forecasts, including the roll-out of regular reforecasting cycles and processes.
• Performs and supports various financial analyses to assist leaders in managing the business. Supports or conducts financial reviews with Company, Finance and Accounting leadership, and/or Field Management.
• Supports company in the preparation of various recurring or ad-hoc public disclosure and/or investor relations reporting and analysis.
• Proactively trouble-shoots processes to continuously improve, advance, or simplify data gathering and or reporting and analytics.
• Utilizes, MS Excel, TMT, Prophix, ADP Workforce Now, Great Plains, TMW and other company / department approved tools to develop, implement, maintain, and produce financial reports and various analytic tools.
• Managing the preparation of all financial reports/statements in relation to the annual external audit and government report.
• Other duties as assigned.

External applicants in consideration will adhere to a company-paid criminal record search.

We love diversity! KAG Canada is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity in the workplace and equivalently considers applications from qualified women, men, visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. We welcome applications from all interested individuals; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

key words: accounting manager, controller, assistant controller, senior manager, financial analyst, senior financial analyst, financial forecasting, financial modelling, CFA, CA.

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