Senior Accountant

About the role

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you!

The Senior Accountant is responsible for the integrity of payroll accounting and related balance sheet accounts across the North American organization including Intercompany balances. The near-term priority is to stabilize and improve the accuracy of automated Workday-to-JDE payroll entries, strengthen payroll clearing and reconciliation processes, and resolve recurring posting issues. The role also prepares approximately 15 recurring U.S. and Canadian sales/use tax returns and owns the related accounting and reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Own payroll accounting and related reconciliations for approximately 20 North American sites.
• Review and validate automated Workday-to-JDE payroll journal entries for completeness, accuracy, and appropriate legal-entity and account coding.
• Lead the short-term stabilization of the Workday-to-JDE payroll accounting process by identifying root causes of posting inaccuracies and implementing sustainable corrections.
• Own payroll clearing accounts, including reconciliation of Workday payroll entries to cash activity and timely investigation and resolution of outstanding differences.
• Prepare payroll-related journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Treasury, site finance, and Accounting to resolve payroll accounting issues and improve end-to-end controls.
• Prepare approximately 15 recurring U.S. and Canadian sales/use tax returns