Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

The Atlas Corp. and Seaspan teams are goal-driven and share a high-performance culture, focusing on building services offerings to become a leading asset manager. Seaspan provides many of the world's major shipping lines with alternatives to vessel ownership by offering long-term leases on large, modern containerships and pure car, truck carriers (PCTCs) combined with industry leading ship management serves. Seaspan's fleet has evolved over time to meet the varying needs of our customer base. We own vessels in a wide range of sizes, from 2,500 TEU to 24,000 TEU vessels. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp, Seaspan delivers on the company's core strategy as a leading asset management and core infrastructure company.

Position Descriptioin:

The Senior Financial Reporting Analyst works closely with the Financial Reporting and Finance Operations teams to assist in managing financial operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance.  Work cross-functionally to drive various finance initiatives, perform complex reconciliation and implement process improvements.  In addition, this role will be responsible to help support the Financial Reporting team with the accurate and timely close of the month end cycle.

Job Responsibilities:

• Reviews and analyzes working papers, journal entries, and account reconciliations prepared by Finance Operations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with accounting policies
• Leads and participates in financial cleanup projects, including historical account reconciliations, dry dock accrual reviews, and correction of aged balances
• Partners with cross-functional teams to identify, investigate, and resolve reconciling items tied to legacy accounting entries and balances
• Reviews journal entries and prepares analysis related to all major financial statement captions. Reviews less complex analysis to ensure accuracy of financial reporting
• Reviews and manages annual and quarterly financial statements for non-public stand-alone entities   
• Assists in resolving complex accounting reconciliations
• Assists with review, analysis, and documentation of accounting policies and procedures
• Assists with finance transformation projects to optimize the financial close and reporting processes by leveraging best practices and technology
• May assist with preparation and review of the company’s SEC filings including consolidated financial statements, MD&A and 20-F
• Proactively manages risk by identifying potential issues and implementing effective solutions to enhance BU performance and compliance with internal control policies 
• Analyzes end-to-end process performance, by understanding workflow designs and translating complex data sets into strategic insights to drive process optimization
• Provides training to new/ junior staff as needed
• Performs other duties as required

Requirement:

• Reviews and analyzes working papers, journal entries, and account reconciliations prepared by Finance Operations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with accounting policies
• Leads and participates in financial cleanup projects, including historical account reconciliations, dry dock accrual reviews, and correction of aged balances
• Partners with cross-functional teams to identify, investigate, and resolve reconciling items tied to legacy accounting entries and balances
• Reviews journal entries and prepares analysis related to all major financial statement captions. Reviews less complex analysis to ensure accuracy of financial reporting
• Reviews and manages annual and quarterly financial statements for non-public stand-alone entities   
• Assists in resolving complex accounting reconciliations
• Assists with review, analysis, and documentation of accounting policies and procedures
• Assists with finance transformation projects to optimize the financial close and reporting processes by leveraging best practices and technology
• May assist with preparation and review of the company’s SEC filings including consolidated financial statements, MD&A and 20-F
• Proactively manages risk by identifying potential issues and implementing effective solutions to enhance BU performance and compliance with internal control policies 
• Analyzes end-to-end process performance, by understanding workflow designs and translating complex data sets into strategic insights to drive process optimization
• Provides training to new/ junior staff as needed
• Performs other duties as required

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with a public company and SEC requirements.
• Some experience with multiple office organization.
• Familiar with financial systems software (e.g. NetSuite).

Job Demands and/or Physical Requirements:

• Periodic overtime to meet deadlines or accommodate time zone differences.

Compensation and Benefits Package:

Sesapan's total compensation is based on our pay-for-performance philosophy that rewards team members who deliver on and demonstrate our high-performance culture. The hiring range for this position is $90,000 - $110,000 CAD per annum. The exact base salary offered will be commensurate with the incumbent's experience, job-related skills and knowledge, and internal pay equity.

Atlas Corp. and Seaspan Corporation are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. We thank all aplicants in advance. If your application is shortlisted to be included in the interview process, one of our team will be in contact with you.