Intermediate Accountant - Hybrid

At Trojan Technologies, we believe there’s nothing more essential than delivering clean water to the world. That’s especially true in this critical moment, when the world’s supply of clean water is under substantial stress due to industrialization, increasing demand, and rising biological and chemical contamination. Our mission is to stem that tide: to ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries, and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally. 

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside customers from municipalities to pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to build creative, sustainable solutions. You’ll also find a welcoming and supportive team that listens to your ideas and allows you to follow your strengths. All of us feel privileged to work on innovative technologies that bring clean water to the world—we hope you will, too.  

Trojan is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. 

We are seeking an experienced Intermediate Accountant to work in our London, Ontario location. The Intermediate Accountant will support and maintain the general accounting reporting and practices for the organization. You will compile and analyze financial information to prepare and/or review necessary journal entries for properly stated ledgers and financial statements in accordance with regulations (e.g., GAAP) and company policy. You will also perform general bookkeeping and account management duties.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for calculation and filing of monthly and quarterly returns, VAT, Intrastat and EC Sales
• Responsible for processing of payroll journal entries for all countries within Europe and completion of monthly payroll control reconciliations.
• Monthly reconciliation of bank accounts
• Preparation and completion of year-end US to German GAAP adjustments.
• Completion of government body requested statistical returns
• Co-ordination of incoming post and distribution to London based staff, including coding of supplier invoices.
• Provides support to London AR team for cash collections and customer receipt allocations.
• Assists with preparation of the annual statutory accounts.
• Assists with completion of all tax and statutory audits.
• Assists with month-end reconciliation work including preparation and review of binders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2 to 3 years of experience preparing Financial Statements & Reconciliations with appropriate Audit Evidence.
• College or University degree in Accounting
• Comfortable working in a global matrix organization with the ability to build and leverage networks within an organization is desired
• Ability to speak German is a plus!

• Accumulates and consolidates monthly data, prepares and analyzes standard and custom internal financial reports, and supports the month end process including recording and reviewing journal entries, as required, and reconciliations.  
• Responsible for calculation and filing of monthly and quarterly returns, VAT, Intrastat and EC Sales
• Assistance preparing and processing year-end US to German GAAP adjustments.
• Completion of government body requested statistical returns
• Co-ordination and distribution of incoming post.
• Provides support to London AR team for cash collections and customer receipt allocations.
• Assists with preparation of the annual statutory accounts.
• Assists with completion of all tax and statutory audits.
• Act as a subject matter expert for your areas of responsibility.  
• Communicate and ensure compliance of accounting policies and procedures. 
• Actively participate in team projects, including but not limited to SOX testing and audits. 
• Successfully manage competing priorities in a deadline driven environment.  
• Drive continuous process improvement using DBS (Danaher Business Systems) tools

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s within you, there’s no better time to find out.