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Through various profile-building activities ACCA Canada has raised the awareness of the ACCA designation with many significant Canadian employers in order to assist members and students in finding employment with these organizations in Canada. Listed below are the Approved and Other Employers actively looking to recruit ACCA members and also other organizations interested in ACCA trained accountants and in some cases affiliates and students for internship or summer training type positions.

Approved Employers

These organizations have been approved by ACCA to cover members' Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements through their learning and development systems. Members can complete their ACCA Realise requirements automatically as employees of these organizations in Canada.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)  is one of the major Canadian banks and an Approved Employer with ACCA. CIBC posts many of its accounting and finance or senior financial management positions as open to ACCAs.

Ernst & Young LLP  is a Big Four accounting firm who have posted jobs in the national press including ACCA as one of the designations that they are looking for from candidates. The firm has recently obtained its Approved Employer status in support of the Continuing Professional Development of ACCA members for all its Canadian operations.

Hewlett-Packard(HP)  is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. They entered the top report in the Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting and have global accreditation as an Approved Employer with ACCA for the training and development they provide their staff.

Nortel Networks  is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for customers. Their next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world and is headquartered in Canada. Nortel became globally approved with ACCA in 2007.

OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System)  is a leading public sector employees pension fund with extensive operations and ownership of other enterprises in Ontario, Canada and globally. They became an Approved Employer for CPD with ACCA in September 2007 and their Vice President of Internal Audit is an ACCA member.

The Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group)  is a major Canadian Bank. An ACCA member met with human resource and finance staff at the bank and explained the designation. There was broad notification to finance and hiring managers that they can consider ACCAs for finance and accounting positions as they would candidates with Canadian designations and ACCA is prominent in their job postings for finance personnel. They became an approved employer in March 2007. There has also been an interest from their HR areas in including ACCAs in the student summer internship programme operated by the bank.

UBS Global is a premier global financial services firm offering wealth management, investment banking, asset management and business banking services to clients. UBS is globally approved with ACCA and actively looking at recruitment opportunities with members in Canada. Members should check their website or contact Ahmed Nulla in their Human Resource department in Toronto, Ahmed.Nulla@ubs.com.

Other global Approved Employers for CPD purposes with significant operations in Canada include:

American Express
General Electric
HSBC  (jobs@hsbc.ca)
IBM Worldwide Accounting
Kerry Group PLC
Merrill Lynch / Black Rock Investments<
Microsoft
Philips
The Proctor & Gamble Company
Reuters
Shell
Standard Life
Unilever

There are also a number of firms in the process of applying for approval and who may be expected to receive approval shortly. If you are employed by one of these firms then you might expect your CPD will be covered under their learning and development systems in due course and announcements should be made within the firm at that juncture.

KPMG LLP  is another of the Big Four Accounting firms with offices across Canada. Many ACCA members are employed in senior roles with the various offices and they actively look to recruit ACCA members who meet their particular career profiles. KPMG has also recently become an Approved Employer with ACCA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP  is one of the Big Four accounting firms.  They have sponsored the Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting and are currently looking to become an Approved Employer with ACCA in Canada. They employ many ACCAs including some in very senior positions in their Canadian offices.

Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP (a member of HLB International Network)

The tenth largest firm in Canada with offices in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, the firm has applied for Approved Employer status to cover the ACCAs already working there and the firm currently is looking for 2-4 partner-stream accountants who are mandarin or perhaps Cantonese speaking, with proven experience in public accounting, for their expanding Chinese client base. Although a Canadian CA training firm, SLF is willing to take ACCA's that meet these criteria. Interested and qualified members should submit their resumes to hr@slf.ca.

Scotiabank  is one of North America's leading financial institutions and Canada's most international bank. There are several ACCA members working with the bank in the Caribbean and that part of the bank's operations is approved. The bank is in the process of extending this approval to all its global operations.