Cost Accountant

For over 75 years, Medavie Blue Cross has been a leading health and wellness partner for individuals, employers and governments across Canada. As a not-for-profit organization, we proudly invest in communities to help address some of Canada’s most pressing health care challenges. We are one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Life & Health Insurer of the Year for 2021 and an Imagine Canada Caring Company. 
 
Our 2,400 professionals work across six provinces, united by our shared values of being caring, accountable, responsible, innovative and community-minded. We’re committed to ensuring our employees thrive in our award-winning, collaborative culture focused on ensuring health, wellness, and personal and professional growth through a variety of programs and support across our organization.
 
Together with Medavie Health Services, we are part of Medavie — a national health solutions partner with over 8,250 employees. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians.

As a Cost Accountant at Medavie Blue Cross, you will be responsible to work with the Finance team to provide financial support and analysis to several organizational departments. You will work with many business units as they plan, project, and manage their operating expenses, while also performing various monthly tasks including invoicing, journal entries, and analysis of general ledger accounts. Outstanding communication skills and ability to create and maintain meaningful relationships will be paramount.
 
Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and advice to management and various departments of the organization to plan, project and manage their operating expenses.
• Act as support staff for various company projects, as required, to ensure that business requirements are adequately addressed.
• Prepare monthly invoices to various partners and related companies, ensuring compliance with service level agreements and maintaining relationships with these parties.
• Prepare and enter monthly journal entries by a given deadline.  Entries are related to accounts including operating expenses, fixed assets, and revenue.
• Monthly analysis of assigned operating expenses and balance sheet accounts including salaries, leasing and maintenance and capital purchases including software development.
• Support Financial Planning and Analysis team members with tasks including maintenance of an activity-based costing model, annual budget preparation and decision support/reporting for senior management.
• Prepare annual account reconciliations and audit files for several general ledger accounts.  Work with external auditors to explain and support audit files. Working as a member of the finance team to provide expertise to operating management to fulfill their management accounting needs.
• Work with the rest of the Finance Team as necessary to meet Finance goals.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis and reporting as assigned.

 
Qualifications

• 3-5 years relevant work experience in full-cycle accounting.
• Previous experience providing financial support and analysis to leaders.
• Post secondary education with a degree or certificate in accounting, designation considered an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (pivoting, linking in formulas, combining data, etc.).
• Ability to extract, transform, and utilize data for various reporting purposes using various tools.
• Exceptional organizational skills, coupled with a keen attention to detail and the ability to manage competing demands.
• Ability to work with multiple areas of finance as well as business units of the organization. 
• Must be comfortable communicating with internal and external stakeholders. 
• Bilingualism considered an asset.

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We believe our employees should reflect the communities we serve and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. To provide the best experience possible, we will support you with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team of your needs.  We are committed to making sure recruitment, retention, advancement, and compensation are fair and accessible while following all relevant human rights and privacy laws. We appreciate everyone who has shown interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.