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Our fabulous client is an activist accounting firm who works exclusively with social purpose organizations and communities that are passionate about making the world a better place. They are looking to add values aligned members to their team from Senior Accountant to the Controller level. Collectively they fight for something bigger and better – including social justice, environmental sustainability, and economic inclusion.
They are not typical accountants, nor are they a conventional accounting firm. They work alongside clients to build robust financial systems and reporting solutions, enabling them to make confident and strategic decisions that result in improved outcomes and deeper impacts. Their clients are heroes, transforming this land to become the most environmentally sustainable, socially just, and economically equitable place on earth.
Responsibilities:
• Onboarding new clients by analyzing the status of their finances and reviewing all aspects of their financial department.
• Building positive relationships with clients by working to establish streamlined processes and best practices within their finance department.
• Mobilizing junior accounting employees to address client issues and fielding any client-related questions that the accounting team may have.
• Reviewing monthly bookkeeping, working papers, and adjusting journal entries prepared by our junior accounting employees, for accuracy and completeness.
• Reviewing year-end working papers and compilation financial statements prepared by our junior accounting employees.
• Preparing more complex compilation financial statements, and working papers, as well as year-end charity tax returns and income tax returns for not-for-profit clients.
• Providing direction and support throughout the year to our client’s bookkeepers on appropriate journal entries, transaction processing, and report generations.
• Monitoring client compliance deadlines including corporate tax instalments, GST
In order to qualify for this role, you will need a minimum of 5 years of top-to-bottom bookkeeping experience along with a Canadian CPA designation. Individuals with experience working both for one of the big 4 accounting firms and a smaller accounting firm will be held in high esteem. You will also have previous public practice accounting experience combined with relevant industry experience and experience working with charities and non-profit organizations or volunteering on Boards of Directors. Significant experience using QuickBooks or SAGE 50 will be absolutely required in order to enable you to advise our clients that use those tools; our preference is QuickBooks. Experience with the accounting software Xyntax or Adagio is not required but would certainly be an asset.
If this sounds like the role for you, please apply today! or reach out to Dushyanthi Kandiah. Please reference job number 05060-0012596681 in all correspondence
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