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At The Value Builder System™, our goal is to change the world for the better. Today, small business owners work their entire lives only to earn pennies on the dollar when they sell their business. Our mission is to make a positive difference for one million small business owners by the year 2030.
Objective:
The mission of this role is to ensure our transition from $3 million to $10 million in annual revenue is as smooth as possible. Your role will encompass a wide variety of accounting and administrative projects that ensure our company runs as efficiently as possible as we grow. You will learn how to efficiently run the administrative functions of a software company.
Your Day-to-day responsibilities include:
Finance & Accounting
- Managing all accounts receivable and accounts payable processes.
- Managing and optimizing the missed payments process.
- Maintaining the books and reconciliations.
- Managing the company assets.
- Completing the month end accounting processes and financial dashboard.
- Creating, coordinating, and maintaining event and department quarterly forecasts.
- Tracking and forecasting cash flow.
- Providing accurate and complete inputs to the accountant for year-end processing.
- All other accounting related activities as needed.
- Calculating and processing all payments to employees, including bi-weekly payroll, monthly and quarterly bonus’, and approved expenses.
- Managing the deployment of our business intelligence infrastructure.
- Onboarding new employees with the payroll and accounting related item.
- Coordinating the financials for employee benefits plan.
Support and Administration
- Providing quote, invoicing, billing and cancellation support via CRM and billing systems.
- Booking travel as needed.
- All other administrative and support related activities as needed.
Emergency Preparedness
- Developing and coordinating our response to an emergency e.g. any outage or major technology failure (e.g. our website going down), office fire/flood, employee/event attendee injury/death.
- Ensuring we have adequate insurances.
Legal
- Working on matters such as:
- Third party partnerships
- Contracts
- Lease
- Other legal matters
Experience Required
- Must have sufficient working knowledge of QuickBooks
- Must be a CPA candidate OR have solid Bookkeeping experience
Is This You? (What we’re looking for):
- You’re gritty. You’ve got the drive and discipline to do the work. You’re not expecting a clock-in-clock-out job.
- You’re Business Savvy. You understand how a business grows, scales, and makes money. You understand pitfalls that separate mediocre businesses from those that make it all the way.
- You are priority efficient. You know time is of the essence. You value everyone’s time. You have the skills to eliminate roadblocks in order to accomplish goals quickly. Your efforts are focused on the most important priorities, getting more done in less time.
- You love a good process. There’s a saying that success is 1% idea and 99% execution, and that’s true for this role. This is a “doing” job, and you are detail-oriented and can establish a process to contribute to your success. You know how to establish a goal and map out the steps necessary to achieve the results.
- You’re the “most trusted confidant”. You have always been seen as a direct and truthful individual and are known as “the woman/man of integrity”. You keep your confidence and admit mistakes; never misrepresenting yourself for personal gain.
Do You Believe What We Believe? (Our Values)
- We believe in having a growth mindset, tackling challenges with our glass three-quarters-full attitude.
- We believe in doing the important things first.
- We believe in being professional. We own up to mistakes. We’re allergic to people who make excuses.
- We believe that opinions are cheap. We’re metrics people. Data is the raw material of true insight.
Why You’ll Love It Here (5 Reasons to Join)
- Play a Role in Doing Right: you’ll be able to look back on your career and know that you played a part in righting a wrong in a world today by helping level the playing field for owners as they approach their exit.
- Get in early. The Value Builder System™ is growing 20-30% per year. A rising tide lifts all boats, and you will be joining a dynamic, growing company and your career growth will accelerate much faster than if you chose to work for a larger, more established business where your career growth is limited to tiny steps on a well-worn career path.
- Learn. One of our four values is to embrace a growth mindset, which is all about taking risks, learning and growing. Learning is not only encouraged; it’s hard-wired into our culture. Join a big company and your learning curve will be gradual, join The Value Builder System™ and the curve steepens considerably. At The Value Builder System™, you’ll be encouraged to take risks and try new things rather than petition management for permission to act.
- Be Safe. When you work for a big company, you’re a number on a spreadsheet, and when that company changes strategy, hundreds of employees can be let go regardless of their performance. The Value Builder System™ is a meritocracy where high performance is your ultimate job security. You’ll never be let go by some arbitrary decision behind a boardroom door. As a high performer in the jet stream of the company’s revenue growth, at The Value Builder System™, you are in control of your destiny.
- Be part of something special. Company founder John Warrillow wrote Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was named by Fortune Magazine one of the ten best books for business owners in the year. The book inspired a podcast which has been downloaded more than 500,000 times and ranked by Forbesas one of the top 10 podcasts for business owners in the world.
Our Offices: We are a Toronto-based remote company. Your role is expected to be performed from a remote “work from home” setting however travel for important meetings and/or events will be required from time to time.
Experience Required:
- Sufficient working knowledge of QuickBooks
- 1-2 years in accounting/bookkeeping role
- CPA candidate (or working towards CPA designation)
- Sufficient knowledge of management accounting is an asset
