Operations Accountant

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S. Canada and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

As part of the operations accounting team, you will oversee CPKC’s operational financial results. You will play a key role in providing financial and operation result insights to business leads and will work closely with business leads and financial planners to enhance the financial acumen and to aid in decision making. You will also be involved in all aspects of financial data from ensuring completeness and accuracy through the collection process, identifying the analytics potential, and analyzing financial and operation data to provide actionable insight.  Along with the team, you will work closely with business leads and the financial planning & analysis team to reflect pending trends and value realization in forecast/budget.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Prepare and post monthly journal entries for all business transactions leading up to the financial statements
• Perform account analysis and monthly reconciliations of key accounts
• Perform other month-end and year-end closing responsibilities and reporting
• Analyze financial results regularly to ensure financial data is complete and reflective of operational reality
• Gather and review operations metrics to support financial data review and analysis
• Complete relevant sections of the quarterly Management Discussion and Analysis
• Ensure consistency, completeness and integrity of financial information
• Analyze pending trends to support business lead by advising of changes in patterns in relation to their annual targets and recommending possible changes
• Ensure financial data generation process comply with applicable internal control Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requirements
• Partner with business stakeholders to recommend and implement improvements to financial data gathering and generation process, including but not limited to the timeliness and accuracy of accruals
• Facilitate the use of financial reporting to provide insight and guidance to the business lead team by answering questions, resolving issues and advancing complex concerns
• Recommend enhancement on operation and financial data quality and governance surrounding cross-functional processes and department(s) performance
• Review and advance complex accounting concerns to business lead team in consultation with accounting policy team
• Prepare and provide ad hoc financial and data quality analysis for budget/forecast, capital projects, investment value realization to the Senior Manager, Operations Accounting
• Exemplifies CPKC Vision, Values, and Culture in each and every interaction with team, clients, and stakeholders

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, accounting, finance, or another relevant field
• Minimum 1 year in accounting or financial analysis OR new graduates that have some experience working in a larger organization as an intern or Co-op

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

Background Investigation

• Criminal history check
• Education verification
• Professional references

BECOMING A RAILROADER:

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Management Conductor Program

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CULTURE OF INCLUSION:

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provided, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• Req ID: 104777
• Department: Finance & Accounting
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Position Type: Non-Union
• Location: Calgary, Alberta
• Country: Canada
• % of Travel: None
• # of Positions: 1
• Job Grade: 5
• Job Available to: Internal & External

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