Senior Accountant

Staffmax Staffing and Recruiting is assisting our client with finding a Senior Accountant to guild her small team with full cycle accounting duties. 

The reason they are hiring: the previous person moved to a government role

Located on Colonnade Street - Car required Transit service is limited
 
Pay and Benefits: 

• $50-65,000
• Health and Dental 100% company-paid
• Free Parking
• Hours: 8-4 PM or 9-5 PM Flex
• In the office with occasional work-from-home
• 2 weeks vacation
• Company has average 8 -25 year employees
• 10 staff total

Reporting to the Controller

Duties and Responsibilities:

•          Support and assist the controller with the daily accounting functions and the monthly/yearly financial statement cycle and reconciliation and account analysis

•          Assist in the development/maintenance of reports for management

•          Maintain and reconcile all related schedules

•          Maintain accounting ledgers by accurately posting account transactions

•          Assist with the preparation of budgets and forecasts

•          Participate in preparation for the annual financial audit

•          Troubleshoot accounting issues – root cause, resolve/correct issue, make necessary changes to avoid future issues

•          Assist with accounts payable including billing preparation, delivery, and responding to queries

Candidates will possess:

•          College diploma or university education in accounting

•          Minimum of 2+ years of related bookkeeping experience

•          A complete understanding of full-cycle accounting

•          Proficiency in Microsoft Office products specifically Excel

•          Sage 300ERP experience is an asset

Additional duties:

Support with varied development of reports using Excel and ERP

Assist in other departments as needed

-          Order intake by phone

-          Order entry into ERP

-          Processing order returns

Day to day duties:

-          Bank reconciliation

-          Post customer payments by recording EFT, cheques, and credit card transactions

-          Process credit card payments

-          Enter and code invoices (payables) into the ERP system

-          Maintain documentation for audit purposes

 

Month end duties:

-          Maintain Fixed Assets ledger (purchases/depreciation/write offs)

-          Government reporting (GST/HST, WSIB)

-          Provide support in completing month end financial package

-          Maintaining pricelists

-          Calculating rebates

-          Calculating commissions

Year end duties

-          Creating/exporting/importing of pricelists

-          Collection of data for budget

-          Entering budget data in ERP

-          Preparing schedules for year end Audit

-          Gathering back up documentation for Audit