Accountant

Newtimes Canada is part of Newtimes Group, a global apparel and consumer-products organization with a portfolio of established lifestyle and performance brands sold through wholesale, B2B, and direct-to-consumer channels. Our Canadian operations support finance, distribution, and shared services across the group's multi-entity brand family, offering a fast-paced environment with broad, cross-entity exposure.

We're hiring a detail-oriented Accountant to own month-end close and financial reporting across our entities, supported by day-to-day accounting operations in AP, AR, intercompany, and reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close process, including accruals, allocations, and the reporting package.
• Prepare financial reporting and deliver budget-vs-actual and forecast variance analysis.
• Record specialized month-end entries such as revenue recognition, material handling, warehouse profitability, and shipping/supply allocations.
• Maintain trial-balance integrity and review activity by entity and cost center.
• Own intercompany reconciliation and settlement across all entities.
• Perform bank and credit card reconciliations, and resolve freight, warehouse, inventory, sales, and returns variances.
• Process vendor, freight, and travel payments, review invoices against approval controls, and maintain expense schedules.
• Manage wholesale billing across the correct sales channels, follow up on overdue receivables, and post related revenue entries.
• Prepare and file sales/GST tax returns and support external tax reporting.
• Manage inventory and stock transfers across entities and sales channels.
• Calculate and process sales and dropship commissions.
• Allocate and record e-commerce and subscription activity in the appropriate entity.
• Partner with marketing and product teams to accrue, release, and post budgeted spend.
• Support process improvements and system integrations across ERP, WMS, and e-commerce platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• CPA designation or active enrollment in a CPA program preferred.
• 3+ years of general ledger / staff accounting experience, ideally in a multi-entity environment.
• Strong accounting fundamentals, including accrual accounting, month-end close, and intercompany transactions.
• High attention to detail with strong reconciliation and variance-analysis skills.
• Experience with multi-entity ERP (e.g., NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365), WMS/e-commerce platforms, and advanced Excel.
• Familiarity with OCR-based AP automation (e.g., Bill.com) and AI productivity tools (e.g., Claude) application in accounting activities preferred

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