Accounting Specialist

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
Prepares and interprets monthly and quarterly financial statements for internal and external reporting purposes. Prepares financial information with detailed analysis of variances to forecast and plan identifying areas of financial concern requiring action. Prepares and analyze key financial and operational metrics. Presents and make recommendations to management as a result of analysis. Ensures financial controls are in place to properly record transactions in accordance with GAAP. Ensures provisions and other accounting processes are in accordance with corporate policies. Interface with auditors on area of responsibility. Responsible to standardize accounting processes and implement best practices to ensure procedures are as efficient and effective as possible. Act as a key advisor to other team members. Project leader on cross-functional projects as required.

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:

- Basic understanding of internal and external customer needs is required to make effective/informed decisions.
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Ability to recommend accounting process changes based on intimate knowledge of accounting processes, policies and procedures. ~Ability to direct others on accounting practices.
- Ability to research accounting rules in both U.S. GAAP and GAAP of relevant country.
- Ability to create a profit center or cost center budget identifying key plan drivers.
- Ability to bridge between actual, plan and forecast, analyzing mix impacts and summarizing in management reports.
- Provide recommendations based on interpretation of results.
- Ability to design/create queries and unders Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

**COMPANY OVERVIEW**:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.