Intermediate Accountant

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
Mid level
Digital Media • News + Entertainment
The Role
Manage account reconciliations, expense variance analysis, prepaid expenses, accruals, journal entries, capital assets, project budgets, fixed asset records, invoice coding, purchase orders, and financial close activities. The role supports corporate finance operations, requires strong Excel and accounting skills, and involves collaboration across finance and operational teams in a fast-paced environment.
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At Corus Entertainment, we’re shaping the future of media in Canada—home to the country’s biggest hits, most trusted news, and greatest value. Our mission is simple: to create engaging content, connect with audiences wherever they are, and drive meaningful growth.
 
Guided by our values—Think Boldly, Make a Positive Impact, Win as a Team, and Own the Outcome—we bring creativity and collaboration to everything we do.
 
If you’re ready to make an impact, there’s a place for you at Corus.

 

Division: Corporate Finance

Work Status: Full-time

Location:  Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

 

About the Role:

 

Corus has an exciting full-time hybrid opportunity for an Intermediate Accountant in our Toronto head office. Reporting to the Manager of Corporate Finance, you will work collaboratively with both finance and operational groups to help manage the company’s capital assets and process invoices for its technology groups. Your ability to process a high-volume of information with a key attention to detail combined with analytical skills demonstrate that no task is too difficult.  You have the ability to leverage resources (people, processes, departments, and tools) to complete objectives effectively and efficiently.     

 

You will contribute by:

 

  • Assume ownership of account reconciliations and analyze expense account variances
  • Review prepaid expenses and determine appropriate accruals at period ends
  • Prepare journal entries to meet month-end finance deadlines
  • Setup, transfer and dispose of capital assets in Great Plains
  • Capital project reporting including the setup and modification of capital budgets
  • Periodically update fixed asset inventory while identifying gaps in the asset data and corresponding attributes
  • Process invoices ensuring appropriate GL and tax coding
  • Manage purchase orders to clear outstanding open POs across the company in a timely manner
  • Assist in the quarter-end financial statement close process
  • Take on special projects as assigned by your manager

 

 

Skills and experience you will bring:

 

  • The ideal candidate has a post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance
  • 3 - 5 years of related accounting experience in a large organization and working towards accounting designation (CPA, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
  • High technical comfort with financial tools and MS suite, specifically Excel (vlookup, sumif, pivot tables, etc).
  • Strong team orientation with ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with internal clients and peers
  • Deadline oriented, ability to multitask and exceptionally strong organization skills
  • Strong analytical skills demonstrated by the ability to get into the details while simultaneously understanding the big picture
  • Demonstrated ability to solve problems both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, with competing priorities

 

Application Deadline: November 19th, 2026

 

 

 

 

Every day, we work hard to become an even more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that supports the well-being of our people and makes a positive difference in our communities. Want to learn more? Have a look at our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan and Sustainability Report for more information on our approach to People, Planet and Responsibility.

 

We want our workforce to reflect the full diversity of communities across Canada.

We are committed to providing an accessible experience for candidates of all abilities.  Please let your recruiter or the hiring manager know if you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or email us in confidence at [email protected].

 

How to Apply:
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Current Corus Employees:
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We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

 

Skills Required

  • Post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance
  • 3–5 years of related accounting experience in a large organization
  • Working toward an accounting designation such as CPA
  • Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles
  • Technical proficiency with financial tools and Microsoft Office, especially Excel functions including VLOOKUP, SUMIF, and pivot tables
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong organization, multitasking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
3,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services. Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX. Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press. Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally. Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere. Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults. Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.

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