What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Controller position at Waste Connections?
Why you need to join us!
- Waste Connections accounting professionals fulfill a unique business partner role in a decentralized field-based environment that highlights your ability to drive continuous process improvement and feel individually connected to your positive contributions to our overall success and mission.
- From day one, your training and development will be inclusive of long-term goals to develop leadership skills as well as your accounting know-how, and always with an eye forward to set you up for success in your next role or promotional opportunity.
- Waste Connections values our role as a sustainability and technology leader within the environmental services industry. Feeling good about what impact your company makes on people and the world around them is easy to do when you work here!
- Always wanted to try experiencing life in a new place, but wasn’t sure how to get there, or how to land on your feet? Waste Connections has grown significantly in the past few years and offers full relocation along with promotional opportunities to experience life in new places and new challenges on your career path.
- Waste Connections doesn’t silo! Many of our accounting professionals have taken their financial skills along with them to positively impact and intersect with opportunities in other roles around the company, including information technology and security, field operations, and C-Suite leadership. If you know your numbers, Waste Connections will ask you “Where To”?
Position Responsibilities
• Performing monthly financial close functions through preparation of financial statements for each designated operating location.
• Reconciliation of all general ledger accounts.
• Monthly narrative analysis of significant financial variances to budget and forecast.
• Monthly completion of a three-month financial forecast.
• Rate analysis and review.
• Effective ongoing communication of financial related information to business counterparts.
• Managing flow of accounting data to/from decentralized field operational offices.
• Assisting with quarterly Sarbanes Oxley compliance and review.
• Planning and participating in the annual financial budget process.
• Providing training to non-financial personnel on internal control compliance, accounting procedures and financial statement review.
• Some travel and awesome potential for relocation opportunities.
Your technical background should include:
- BS/BA degree in Accounting.
- 2 years of public accounting experience strongly preferred.
- Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Excel and related accounting business systems.
- Proven excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
What’s In It For You:
We offer excellent benefits including: medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, long term disability, life insurance, 401K retirement and unlimited opportunities to "Connect with Your Future". Other benefits include a strong presence in our local communities, sustainability initiatives, and more.
Our Accounting team comes from a variety of backgrounds, including Big 4, large regional accounting firms, private CPA firms and within corporate and industry. We would love for you to learn more about their Waste Connections accounting careers and stories by following along on our social media accounts. Click any of the links below to Connect with us or check out a “Day in the Life” of a Waste Connections accounting professional: https://vimeo.com/395284791
Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.