Lead, Accounting

Location: Kimberley, BC, Canada Employment Type: Regular Full Time Workplace Type: Hybrid

Role Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Business Planning, the Lead, Accounting is responsible for supervising all financial and accounting functions for Legacy Properties, a portfolio of over 30 properties. This includes ensuring accurate and timely data accumulation, processing, and reporting, as well as the preparation of required financial documents and reports.

The role demands a strong understanding of accounting principles, financial management, and industry-specific practices to support strategic decision-making. The Lead, Accounting will lead the Legacy Accounting Team, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, maintaining effective internal controls, and driving operational efficiency.

The Lead, Accounting will collaborate closely with the Legacy team, Teck enterprise accounting, and other internal partners to ensure the integrity of financial accounts, books, and records.

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Responsibilities

- Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures

- Maintains and demonstrates Teck’s dedication to safety and environmental protection as a core value

- Responsible for maintaining the Teck Legacy system of accounts and keeping books and records on all Legacy transactions and assets and providing effective financial controls for Legacy

- Be a trusted source of accounting expertise for the Legacy Properties portfolio.

- Prepare consolidated financial reporting package for Legacy Properties Group of over 30 properties on a monthly basis, and provide quarterly reporting analysis as necessary

- Prepare financial analyses related to site care, maintenance, operations, and projects to guide management decisions

- Coordinate and advise on the preparation of site and consolidated Legacy Properties budgets and financial forecasts

- Ensure accurate financial reporting using ERP systems (D365 and SAP) and excel based worksheets

- Develop, maintain and communicate cost and financial reports for Joint Ventures

- Continuously improves reporting processes, procedures and final products

- Reviews and books journal entries for the Legacy Properties accounting team as the need arises

- Supervise the implementation of a Legacy Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project coding structures for control and integrity of work to be performed

- Support/ Review account reconciliations and the submittal of vendor invoices to shared services A/P team for processing

- Handle project cost rebills, both internal and external

- Prepare tax remittances (GST, and foreign tax withholdings) and ensure compliance with PST self-assessment requirements

- Analyze changes in cost and schedule performance against the Controls Plan. Communicate changes to management and proposed mitigation plan

- Responsible for preparation and application of the procedures and guidelines for cost controls across Legacy properties

- Maintains control procedures, including the cost accounting system, and analyzes and reports variances

- Review processes, guidance documents and templates for efficiencies and improvements

- Management of process flows, guidance documents and templates

Qualifications

- A CPA designation and at least 10 years of dynamic experience in full cycle accounting and analysis

- Experience with mining industry accounting issues is a benefit, such as Deferred Restoration Provisions, Capital versus Expense analysis, and Joint Venture Accounting

- Experience with SAP or D365 systems is considered a strong asset

- Strong analytical, critical and conceptual thinking skills

- Project and Operations based accounting experience would be preferred

- Experience working in a professional firm environment—such as accounting, engineering, or similar—considered an asset

- Ability to adapt and work well in a constantly evolving environment

- Strong interpersonal skills as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.

- A self-starting teammate with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong leadership qualities and the maturity and personality to considerately interact with all levels of Management, Site and Project teams

- Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Internet Explorer

Pay Range: CAD $119,000 - $147,000 per year

The actual amount offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity.

Why Teck

At Teck, your work matters—to the world, to our communities and to your future.

As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way. At Teck, you’ll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.

Apply with us

Take the next step in your career by applying for the Lead, Accounting role. We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn’t match every requirement. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free hiring process. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Requisition ID: 53157 | Job Category: Finance | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Location: Kimberley | Workplace Type: #LI - Hybrid