Senior Accountant
Atlantic LotteryDiscover
The Opportunity
Join Our Team as a Senior Accountant at Atlantic Lottery!
Are you a finance professional with a passion for accuracy, analysis, and strategic impact? Atlantic Lottery is looking for a Senior Accountant - Sales to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll be the subject matter expert for Sales & Gross Profit, Inventory, and Shareholder Reporting, playing a key role in ensuring financial integrity, optimizing processes, and supporting both internal and external reporting requirements.
Application Deadline: Posting will remain open until the position is filled or interviews begin.
Salary: A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role is $80,000 - $90,000 at the time of this posting. (Individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, market conditions, relevant experience, training and internal equity).
Work Environment:
- Location: Moncton, NB preferred. Halifax, NS or St. John's, NL may be considered.
- Onboarding: Full-time in-office for the first 6 months (Moncton preferred).
- After Probation: Option to continue in-office or shift to a hybrid model (2-3 days/week in office).
What You'll Do:
- Financial Accounting: Prepare and review journal entries, reconciliations, and financial analyses to ensure compliance with IFRS and tax regulations.
- Gross Profit (SME): Ensure completeness and accuracy of Gross Profit results, mentor team members, and recommend process improvements for accurate revenue recognition.
- Inventory (SME): Maintain accurate inventory records, perform monthly reconciliations, and provide insightful analysis.
- Variance Analysis: Analyze monthly results, identify risks to financial targets, and recommend corrective actions.
- Reporting & Analysis: Prepare internal and external financial reports, including Board and Shareholder reporting packages.
- Financial Systems: Understanding the transaction flow in Oracle eBS and Hyperion, ensuring system optimization, troubleshooting, and alignment with accounting standards.
- Cost Center Support: Partner with internal stakeholders to support expense planning and ensure accurate financial results.
- Compliance & Documentation: Monitor changes in legislation and standards, ensuring documentation and processes remain current and compliant.
What you'll need
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Finance or Accounting.
- CPA designation is considered an asset.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in a finance role with a strong analytical focus.
- Experience working under IFRS and with financial systems such as Oracle eBS, Hyperion, and Oracle BI is considered an asset.
- High proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
- Must be 19 years of age or older to apply and reside in Atlantic Canada.
Professional Skills:
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
- High attention to detail and confidentiality.
- Ability to translate business ideas into financial insights.
- Customer-focused with excellent communication skills.
- Understanding of a customer-focused fast paced work environment and the ability to effectively pivot between tasks, prioritize and manage deliverables to meet conflicting deadlines
AL Benefits:
- Extended health coverage that includes medical, dental, and vision.
- Basic life insurance and disability.
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan.
- Three weeks of vacation annually (pro-rated) and 13 paid statutory holidays. Plus, we have a vacation purchasing program.
- Wellness Support: Wellness programs focused on physical and nutritional health (and more), 3 paid personal care days and a 24/7 Employee & Family Assistance Program.
- Two volunteer days per year.
- Career advancement opportunities.
Recruitment Process: Over the past few years, we have embraced meaningful changes in our workplace, including enhancements to our hiring practices. Our typical recruitment process includes two in-person interviews, an assignment and/or scenario-based questions to assess your knowledge, behavioral or cognitive assessments, and verification of relevant certifications, where applicable. All interviews are conducted in English, our primary working language, unless otherwise specified.
We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo reference checks and a mandatory criminal background check. Depending on the role, financial, educational, and credential verifications may also be conducted as part of our comprehensive hiring process.
Internal Employees: Internal employees interested in this opportunity must be in 'good standing,' which includes meeting expectations on their last performance review. Performance improvement plans, disciplinary action, attendance, mandatory training, and other performance-related items will also be taken into consideration when determining the applicant's 'good standing' status. Please note that the Predictive Index (PI) assessment will be conducted or, if already completed, provided to the hiring managers.
Eligibility to Work in Canada: As applicable, candidates must have acquired all required work permits/visas and other authorizations and otherwise be eligible to work in Canada at the time any offer of employment is made by AL. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate to obtain all required work permits/visas and other authorizations.
A little bit about us
Atlantic Lottery
Our players have been having fun and "dreaming big" since 1976 when Atlantic Lottery started offering lottery games on behalf of the governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island. The game options have grown and changed over the years and so has our workforce! Today's Atlantic Lottery has more than 600 employees, who are the heart and soul of our business. We offer everything from dare-to-dream draw games to online bingo; breakopen tickets to sports wagering; and games in social settings and on the internet. With games come winners - big and small wins every day - but the best thing about lottery games is that when you choose to play with us, everyone benefits. 100% of our profits go back into our communities. That feels good! #ProudToBeAL
We are proud, gritty, community-minded, and punch above our weight. Being Atlantic Canadian means that we work hard and we know how to have fun. It also means that we genuinely care for each other as co-workers, neighbours, and friends.
Your best life is waiting in Atlantic Canada. At Atlantic Lottery, we have many roles that allow you to work from any of our four Atlantic provinces. Explore living East:
Are you interested?
Work With Us
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment/interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note that the successful candidate will be subject to reference checks and mandatory criminal background checks. Financial, educational, and credential verification checks may also be conducted as part of our comprehensive hiring process.