Accounting and Transaction Advisory Senior Manager in Montréal

The Capital Markets Accounting Advisory Services team (“CMAAS”) at PwC is committed to supporting clients through moments of exceptional change by providing accounting advisory services. These services include accounting advice to our clients through acquisitions and divestitures, accounting change, restructuring and capital transactions, such as IPOs, and digital transformation projects. A career within CMAAS will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for complex financial reporting issues around transactions and other transformational events.

You’ll tackle client’s needs with a solution-oriented approach that creatively addresses complex financial reporting problems for high profile transactions, and you’ll have significant interaction with senior company management, teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisers.

The Opportunity: As an Accounting and Transaction Advisory Senior Manager, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include but isn't limited to:

• Leading the team and our clients through capital market transactions (e.g. IPO readiness, prospectuses, Business Acquisition Reports, pro forma financial statements, etc.) and various accounting change projects including GAAP conversion in contemplation of a transaction, implementation of accounting policy changes and new accounting standards.
• Supporting our Deals teams with accounting implications on specific transactions (i.e. buy side, sell side, valuations, business combination, consolidation accounting, divestitures, etc.).
• Leading project teams in supporting our clients to prepare or review accounting whitepapers, diagnostic reports, complex accounting calculations, quarterly/annual financial statements and management reporting to drive insights, typically with a manager and supervising one or more Senior Associates and reporting directly to the engagement leader.
• Taking a leading role in understanding our clients’ specific issues and developing an appropriate project plan and deliverables to meet their needs.
• Coaching others, recognizing their strengths, and encouraging them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Working flexibly and responding promptly to ad hoc requests by clients.
• Being responsible for overall quality of the project and project management.
• Contributing as a strategic thinker who identifies and takes responsibility for actively supporting the growth of the CMAAS business.
• Upholding the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

What You’ll bring:

• Experience managing teams in either financial accounting and reporting, a deals environment, or in public company audits.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients and the team both verbally and in written communications in relation to complex issues and project status.
• Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent reciprocal/recognized designation.
• A strong technical knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP and ASPE.
• The ability to build relationships and to integrate with client teams working under tight deadlines.
• Strong Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) and an aptitude for technology and innovation are an asset.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and an ability to work through complex and challenging client projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-tasked, fast-paced and changing project-based environment with the flexibility to work overtime where client deadlines are tight.
• The ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple engagements and engagement types concurrently.
• A coachable individual, open-minded and dedicated to self-improvement, career development and development of others.

The successful candidate requires fluency in English, in addition to French as they will be required to support or collaborate with English-speaking clients, colleagues and/or stakeholders during the course of their employment with PwC Canada.

PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer.

This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.

We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation.

During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.