What You'll Do:

Are you a curious and motivated accounting professional looking to accelerate your career? Join the Inventory Accounting team at Canadian Tire Corporation, where you'll gain exposure to complex inventory accounting, financial reporting, process improvement, and business partnering across multiple iconic banners, including CTR, Mark's, SportChek, and PartSource.

In this 18-month contract, reporting to the Manager, Inventory Accounting, you'll play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, supporting business initiatives, improving processes, and helping drive efficiencies across the organization. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with Finance, Supply Chain, Merchandising, FP&A, and Operations while developing strong technical accounting and analytical skills.

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analysis related to inventory, obsolescence, shrink, and foreign exchange.

• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting activities.

• Investigate variances, identify trends, and provide meaningful insights and recommendations.

• Partner with Finance and business teams to resolve accounting issues and support key business initiatives.

• Execute and maintain key financial controls and support audit requirements.

• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve processes and reporting.

• Leverage technology and analytics tools, including Copilot, to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation.

What You Bring:

• University degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• CPA designation or actively pursuing CPA designation.

• 2-3 years of accounting or financial analysis experience.

• Strong knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting principles.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.

• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.

• Curiosity, initiative, and a passion for continuous improvement.

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Copilot, Power BI, HFM, or PeopleSoft is an asset.

Why Join Our Team?

You'll join a high-performing team that values ownership, continuous learning, and innovation. We encourage team members to challenge the status quo, leverage technology to work smarter, and actively contribute ideas that improve our processes and controls.

This role provides excellent exposure to:

• Inventory accounting and financial reporting

• Process improvement and automation initiatives

• Cross-functional business partnering

• Audit and controls

• Career growth and CPA development

Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid: In-office 4 days a week)

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Broadband Salary Range: $27/hr – $45/hr CAD.
Our typical hiring range is between $27/hr and $36/hr. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

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This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.