Chief Accounting Officer

As the Chief Accounting Officer for Canada, you will be the accounting authority in the country, overseeing all accounting, financial compliance, and internal control matters across Canadian operations. You will work in close collaboration with the Canadian Chief Financial Officer and the global accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting, adherence to international and local accounting standards, and continuous improvement of accounting processes. You'll also be a key partner in transformation initiatives, team leadership, and regulatory compliance.

What you'll be doing

• Accountable for Group accounting, statutory and tax books prepared by the Accounting Competency Centers (CoCe)and local teams:
• Provide input on local accounting policies and procedures and define local Accounting approval matrix
• Ensure robust end to end accounting process in coordination with CoCe: efficiency, productivity and quality of delivery
• Reporting under IFRS & Group principles (Implementation of Group Controlling and accounting rules and processes)
• Ensure the production of the compliant statutory accounts, communication with local authorities, auditors, etc.
• Manage regular Balance sheet reviews and reconciliations and challenge assessment of risk provisions
• In collaboration with tax, ensure local and international tax compliance, timely filling in, reviewing, approving, filing the tax returns and making the tax payments
• Ensure reconciliation between tax / group reporting accounts
• Leads the Territory Accounting Organization, supported by Coce (Accounting Competency Center)
• Manage work with CoCe in the framework of an SLA
• Set up & update Accounting team in the Country for all legal entities, in accordance with the Group projects & evolution
• Lead high performing team & develop future ready finance profiles
• Governance and escalation of issues
• Part of CoCe Governance, collaboration with TABP and respond to CoCe Customer satisfaction survey
• Responsible to optimise set up and quality of Accounting and Tax processes and tools
• Drive Finance Transformation and E2E Accounting processes
• Define priorities and roadmap for process implementation & improvement
• Ensure that processes are in place, they are in line with corporate guidelines, documented, communicated and updated
• Ensure that tools are in place, they are in line with the corporate guidelines and employees are trained to use them
• Lead evolution & change in tools in compliance with Global guidelines
• Responsible to update Finance on legislations/local rules change and statutory events
• Maintain Subscription for Accounting, Tax and relevant legislation updates from external professional firms and/or local membership to Accounting and Tax Network
• Responsible for planning of all statutory / compliance activities and duties
• Accountable for implementation and compliance to Key Internal Controls in all accounting processes
• Provide accounting support for ad-hoc activities like acquisitions, legal entities merges, carve-outs
• Participation to Finance community projects

What we'e looking for

• Local accounting/tax qualification and English speaking
• CPA or IFRS degree (certificates)
• Process oriented (workflows, guidelines, instructions, documentation etc)
• Compliance and internal control
• Digital Mindset
• Technical knowledge of IFRS and country accounting (both statutory and tax)
• Capacity to understand both local and global pictures from a statutory perspective

We recognize that skills and competencies can be developed through a variety of experiences-both professional and personal. Even if you don't meet every single requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. Your unique background and perspective could be exactly what we're looking for.

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150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
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You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

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Client-provided location(s): Mississauga, Canada

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/94881?lang=en-us

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-24T23:41:31