Senior Manager, Accounting Advisory Services

Overview

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.

KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services in Vancouver is currently looking for a Senior Manager to join its expanding team supporting the Greater Vancouver area. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about leading and delivering exceptional service to clients facing financial reporting challenges arising from transactions and other business changes, as well as changes in accounting standards and regulatory developments. Join a winning team!

This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career by servicing some of the most dynamic clients in the market. This role provides ongoing advancement opportunities.

Our accounting advisory teams use technical and pragmatic accounting, financial reporting and project management skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment to help clients take on a wide variety of accounting and financial reporting challenges, including in technical areas such as framework conversions, business combinations and divestitures, financial instruments, consolidations, and more in both IFRS and US GAAP, necessitating basic Canadian and US securities requirements, and a general understanding of finance and business operational process/systems and controls.

As a senior manager, you will be part of a leadership group responsible for leading KPMG s accounting advisory client relationships and engagements, ensuring our deep accounting insights are applied to our clients’ problems. Clients will look to you to add value to their business throughout the accounting advisory engagement, through your own insights as well as providing access for your client to the rest of KPMG.

More specifically, you will:

• Cultivate opportunities and participate in, or lead, the delivery of accounting advisory engagements under IFRS, US GAAP (potentially ASPE) and take ownership of the engagements from start to finish, which will require strong project management skills, including managing client deliverables, expectations, engagement resourcing and economics.
• Lead and nurture client relationships throughout and in between engagements.
• Contribute to the attraction, development and management of a growing team.
• Remain current on applicable and evolving financial reporting standards and securities and regulatory requirements and developing accounting/business issues.
• Assist clients with evaluating the requirements of accounting, reporting and disclosure standards, preparing or reviewing supporting analyses, including drafting reports and presentations, and analyzing differences between different accounting frameworks.
• Advise clients on accounting implications of mergers and acquisitions, framework conversion, new standards or public offering/listing.
• Develop fit-for-purpose solutions through obtaining understanding of clients’ preferences and constraints.
• Assist clients in operationalizing financial reporting and regulatory reporting requirements/needs.
• Work collaboratively with broader KPMG advisory teams including deal advisory, valuations, risk consulting and finance transformation, in support of your clients’ goals.

You will bring the following experience to the role:

• CPA, CA (or recognized national accounting designation), along with a post-secondary degree and 6 or more years of experience in Big 4 accounting firms or equivalent.
• Knowledge and experience in accounting for debt and equity financings under IFRS and US GAAP.
• Knowledge and experience in other relevant accounting topics under IFRS and US GAAP including business combinations, consolidation and equity method, revenue, leases, share-based compensation, and common IFRS and US GAAP differences.
• Experience leading client relationships and engagements and leading teams in addressing financial reporting issues, including emerging businesses and larger multinational businesses.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving capabilities and proven technical capabilities through researching and analyzing accounting standards,…