Senior Accountant

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

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Job Summary:

At Thomson Power Systems, strong financial governance is essential to supporting our operations and growth. We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join our Finance team on a three‑month contract, with the potential for extension to permanent, to support business continuity. This role will provide hands‑on accounting leadership and ensure the accuracy and integrity of our financial operations.

In this role, you will support the interim Business Unit Controller in overseeing accounting activities, compliance, and reporting within a multi‑currency environment. You will play a key role in ensuring timely month‑end close, supporting audits and regulatory reporting, and maintaining alignment with corporate policies and financial standards.

Key Responsibilities

This position is responsible for, but not limited to the following duties:

• Providing input into financial decisions by monitoring and enforcing policies & procedures.

• Protects assets by monitoring and enforcing internal controls. Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting both internal and external audits; providing information to auditors.

• Ensures application and compliance with Regal accounting policies and procedures, US/Canadian GAAP, IFRS accounting and compliance rules and laws.

• Drives consistency and continuous process improvements in the accounting and compliance processes, tools, formats, and templates to mitigate risk. Maintains standard application of accounting schedules.

• Assists in managing general accounting function(s) and the preparation of reports and statistics, reflecting earnings, profits, cash balances, and other financial results for the business unit/group.

• Manage monthly intercompany and current account reporting with other divisions.

• Routinely and proactively conducts detail balance sheet reviews (minimize surprises). Reports on root causes, remediation plans, and updated status. Drives all finding and/or process improvement opportunities to timely closures.

• Assists in developing processes and controls to ensure compliance with statutory regulations and Corporate accounting standards/policies, including corporate tax, SR&ED and compliance

• Proactively ensures completion of all other compliance requirements, e.g. governmental surveys.

• Assists in the completion of all internal and external audits.

• Applies and standardizes SOX and internal controls, and monitors success to minimize risk. Routinely and proactively conducts detail SOX Benchmark Controls reviews (minimize surprises). Reports on root causes, remediation plans, and updated status.

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

• Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.

• Manages accumulation, consolidation and reporting of financial business results against plan and supplementary metrics.

• Evaluates the effectiveness of accounting software and supporting systems, as required

• Other duties as assigned.
  

Required Education / Experience / Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; advanced degree preferred

• Accounting designation (CPA)

• 5+ years full cycle accounting experience

• Project and job accounting experience an asset

• Cost accounting/inventory experience

• Fully proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

• Superior Technical Skills including Excel/Power BI/Access/ERP Systems/SQL

• Strong attention to detail and a goal-oriented mentality

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

• Previous manufacturing experience and asset

• Excellent skills in time management

• Excellent people skills and great desire to produce quality work

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Notification to Agencies: Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.