Process Improvement Specialist-Finance

Job title: Process Improvement Specialist-Finance

Job description: West Fraser is a leading diversified forest products company, listed on the TSX and NYSE. Recognized for the eighth time as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, we are a growing company looking for talented people to be part of our team. We have over 11,000 employees and operations in Canada, Southern United States, United Kingdom and Belgium.

West Fraser continues to invest in our manufacturing facilities to ensure they are modern and competitive. We have a sustainable forestry practice and continue to innovate our processes and diversify our products, including investing in bioenergy.

Are you interested in working for a company that offers both a challenging work environment and a rewarding career path? Our office, located in Vancouver, or Quesnel, British Columbia, has an opening for an experienced:

Finance Process Improvement Specialist

Our Quesnel or Vancouver office is looking for an experienced finance professional to join our finance process improvement group as an integral member of our finance team. The ideal candidate will have a solid accounting and internal control background, a continuous improvement mindset and enjoy designing and testing new systems or processes. You will like changing assignments and project teams and be flexible on tasks assigned. You will love to travel as we have locations in Canada, the USA, United Kingdom, and Belgium and project implementation travel will be required. You will have strong communication and negotiation skills and be able to affect change through indirect influence.

You will be part of a team that designs, tests, documents, and implements financial process improvements, new accounting modules, and system upgrades or conversions. You will have a solid foundation in accounting and be skilled at mapping journal entries through systems as you design processes. You will work closely with our internal audit department to ensure the appropriate internal controls are in place before a change is implemented.

You will identify improvement areas through your interactions with various business partners and bring these ideas to the finance process improvement team. Your focus will be on automating processes, maximizing efficiencies and simplifying tasks, driving standardization and consistency across our organization, and reporting improvements.

You will utilize organizational change management strategies to influence change in the organization. Your team will participate or lead the training process, and we require robust process flow, internal control, and training documentation. You will have strong verbal and written communication skills and be able to tailor your message to the audience. You will lead small projects and work with a project manager on large projects.

You will provide ad hoc assistance to our corporate accounting managers, which may include covering a month-end for a vacant position, approving journal entries, reviewing divisional balance sheet reconciliations, or preparing a variance analysis. You may also be required to assist our financial reporting team in preparing working papers for external reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Member of a team that designs, tests, documents, and implements financial process improvements, focusing on standardization, simplification, and automation.
• Partner with various business partners, including internal audit, to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Responsible for ensuring the appropriate internal controls are in place for any new processes or changes to processes, and documentation and training is complete before a change is implemented.
• Assist our corporate accounting managers and financial reporting teams as needed. This may include covering month-end for a vacant position, approving journal entries, reviewing divisional balance sheet reconciliations, or preparing working papers or variance analysis.
• The first project assignments:

• Complete the implementation of our automated accounts payable workflow (AP AME).
• Participate in converting our newly acquired OSB divisions into Oracle EBS

Experience and Education:

• A professional accounting designation
• Minimum of three years of public accounting or SOX experience
• Minimum of three years of experience in finance and accounting.
• Participated in at least two process improvement or system change projects
• Well-established organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A detail-oriented and proactive approach to work
• Creative problem-solving skills
• A high level of motivation and energy
• Strong computer systems skillset
• Experience with Oracle JDE or EBS financial systems.

West Fraser believes strongly in promoting from within. We are looking for individuals who are interested in a full-time, long-term career.

If this position sounds like the career for you, apply today in confidence at www.westfraser.com/jobs. Click on the green “apply now” at the top of the page.

For more information on West Fraser and other career opportunities, visit our website at www.westfraser.com/jobs.

We thank all candidates for their interest, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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