Highbury Asset Management Looking for Staff Accountant at Victoria, BC Full Time

Highbury Asset Management provides shared executive management, operations, finance, and administrative services to a portfolio of family owned retail and commercial operations on southern Vancouver Island and Salt Spring Island. In addition to Highbury, we employ 320+ team members across eight retail stores and offer a diverse range of opportunities for career growth. Take a look at some of the benefits of working for Highbury’s accounting team:

• Competitive salary – we think this one is worth $50,000 – $60,000 per year, which we review annually.
• Potential to earn an annual bonus as well as spot bonuses throughout the year.
• Extended health benefits.
• Professional organization dues and courses paid for as applicable – for this position, we will pay for your CPA PEP education fees and annual dues.
• CPA supported learning environment.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Staff Accountant looking to gain experience across a wide variety of retail stores, commercial operations, and holding companies. Working closely with the Controller, you will be exposed to all aspects of accounting functions, including daily operations, periodic management reporting, and annual statutory filings. This position may be ideal for a CPA candidate currently enrolled in CPA PEP.

Highbury Asset Management is committed to ensuring CPA students gain the practical experience requirements set out by CPA Canada.

Enough about us. You want to know what you’ll be getting yourself into. You’ll get a chance to showcase your initiative and problem-solving skills while getting involved in these areas:

• Prepare journal entries for a portfolio of varied companies across the grocery, liquor, real estate holdings, and property management industries.
• Reconcile bank accounts, credit cards, all types of CRA accounts (GST, corporate tax, and payroll), shareholder, inter-company, and dividends.
• Prepare and compile year-end working paper sections for a variety of companies.
• Participate in external year-end review engagements.
• Develop and document accounting processes, recommend improvements, and implement approved solutions to increase efficiency, timeliness and reliability of financial data provided to stakeholders.
• Prepare personal, corporate, and trust tax filings (T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5).
• Prepare notated budget vs actual analyses, working with store managers to report on unexpected results.
• Perform ad hoc analyses as required by executive management.
• Assist with cash flow management.
• Some project and team management.
• Other duties as assigned.

To do that well, you need to have some skills and traits. Here’s what we’re looking for from you:

• Some Canadian accounting experience – this could be a co-op term or two.
• A commitment to complete all pre-requisites for entry into the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP).
• A curious and fun personality – you’re willing to ask questions and follow-up with team members or management.
• A willingness to learn – we’re always improving how we do things.
• Very strong Excel skills – we use Excel a lot, so you need to versatile with it.
• Completely fluent in English both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing deadlines.
• You’re looking for an opportunity to expand accounting knowledge while working in industry.
• You want to work within a supportive environment as part of an excellent team.
• You want an opportunity to develop staff management and mentoring skills.

Most of all, we want to know you have good attention to detail. The best way to show us that is by including a well written cover letter with your application telling us why you’re the right person for the job.

We are unable to offer a remote work environment at this time. Applicants must be able to commute to our Victoria head office at the corner of Fort Street and Oak Bay Avenue in Victoria, BC, Canada.

We thank all individuals for their interest in this role, however only qualified candidates selected to move forward in the interview process will be contacted at that time.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $50,000.00-$60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Store discount

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Victoria, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 2023-01-10