Junior Accountant

At Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, we deliver excitement. Our mission is to be the heartbeat of our community by creating connections, building champions, and winning, together. If you’d like to join a team that’s people-first, diverse, innovative, and energized about delivering extraordinary fan experiences to our guests, then we’d love to sign you up to join the team!

THE POSITION

The Junior Accountant is a development role and is responsible for the accurate and complete processing of sales, cost of sales and expense transactions for assigned departments and is integral to our month and year-end close processes within the accounting and transaction team of the Finance department.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Junior Accountant is responsible for the following:

Leadership

• Create and foster effective working relationships with finance team members, business partners and external stakeholders;
• Contribute to maintaining a cohesive, engaged and positive team.

Accounting

• Prepare revenue recognition journal entries for assigned departments;
• Reconcile month end inventory balances to source systems;
• Prepare and ensure accuracy of account reconciliations for areas of responsibility on a monthly basis;
• Consistently meet month and year-end close deadlines;
• Liaise with business partners on a regular basis, as required, to obtain information to prepare entries and/or reconcile accounts;
• Support colleagues on the accounting and transactions team in preparing journal entries and account reconciliations as required;
• Support the assigned department’s financial analyst, as required, in conjunction with month-end close and budget process;
• Support interim and year-end financial audits for areas of responsibility.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to ongoing standardization, simplification and documentation of key finance processes for area(s) of responsibility leveraging appropriate best practices;
• Support finance and/or organizational process improvement and/or automation initiatives for areas of responsibility.

Other

• Active participation in the Safety Program and follow all safety rules;
• All other duties as assigned.

THE INDIVIDUAL

The ideal candidate will have the following background:

• Hands-on experience with Great Plains Dynamics.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
• Experience working with contractual agreements.
• Comfortable using and extracting data from source business operating systems (e.g., Square for Food & Beverage, Kore for Marketing and Sponsorship agreements).
• Experience administering pre-paid expenses and capital assets.
• Experience with Solver Bi360 advantageous.

The deadline to apply is 4 PM Thursday, July 11th, 2024.