Senior Accountant (Regulatory)
CPKC
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Calgary, AB
Contract type: Full time
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:
Join the team as a Regulatory Reporting Specialist and help shape the financial story of CPKC. You’ll collaborate across departments to prepare and review key external disclosures—like quarterly and annual financial statements—while navigating US GAAP and Canadian/US regulatory requirements. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, working with big data, and driving process improvements. If you’re curious, driven, and take pride in delivering results, we want to hear from you!
POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Background Investigation
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).
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Join the team as a Regulatory Reporting Specialist and help shape the financial story of CPKC. You’ll collaborate across departments to prepare and review key external disclosures—like quarterly and annual financial statements—while navigating US GAAP and Canadian/US regulatory requirements. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, working with big data, and driving process improvements. If you’re curious, driven, and take pride in delivering results, we want to hear from you!
POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Prepare and review consolidated financial statements and regulatory filings under Canadian and US standards.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory accounting principles and reconcile differences from US GAAP.
- Perform journal entries, account reconciliations, and trace accounting transactions to source codes and cost objects.
- Partner with internal teams to gather, validate, and analyze financial and operational data.
- Support quarterly and annual statistical reporting, price index, cost of capital, and grain revenue calculations.
- Liaise with government agencies and monitor regulatory changes, assessing their impact.
- Identify opportunities to streamline reporting processes and collaborate across departments to implement solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, related fields, or relevant experience; Accounting Designation is desirable
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience, railroad related experience is desirable
- Ability to work Excel to manipulate large sets of data
- Application expertise (desirable): SAP, BW, BPC
- Flexible and competitive benefits package
- Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans
- Employee share purchase plan
- Performance incentive plan
- Annual fitness subsidy
- Part-time studies program
Background Investigation
- Criminal history check
- Education verification
- Professional references
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: 105110
- Department: Finance & Accounting
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Position Type: Non-Union
- Location: Calgary, Alberta
- Country: Canada
- % of Travel: 0-10%
- # of Positions: 1
- Job Grade: 4
- Job Available to: Internal & External
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