Financial Accountant

Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across Canada. Coastal Wealth Management manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

The role

Coastal Wealth Management is hiring a Financial Accountant to work remotely from India. This role supports the annual audit and works with AP, payroll and FP&A every month. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Key responsibilities

• Track prepaid expenses and amortization schedules.
• Assist with year-end audit requests and prepare supporting schedules.
• Calculate and book revenue under ASC 606 for standard contracts.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts, including cash, fixed assets and accrued liabilities.
• Investigate P&L variances and explain them to the Controller.
• Document close procedures and keep the close checklist current.
• Prepare and post monthly journal entries for accruals, prepaids and allocations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of general ledger or public accounting experience.
• Strong Excel: XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP, pivot tables, SUMIFS.
• Available for extra hours at month-end and year-end.
• Hands-on with NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online or another ERP.
• Comfortable explaining numbers to non-accountants.
• Organised and accurate under deadlines.
• Experience with month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations.

Nice to have

• ASC 842 lease accounting.
• Multi-entity or multi-currency accounting.

Perks and benefits

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Monthly internet allowance.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Coastal Wealth Management Ltd..