Senior Accountant POST NUMBER: 456995
About the Company
Our client is an educational institute. They are looking for a designated Senior Accountant who will be responsible for maintaining and managing the daily, monthly and yearly closing processing and producing consolidated financial statements and all funds.
Why Work Here
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Great work-life balance with tight knit Finance team
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Great benefits package
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Stable, unionized environment
About the Opportunity
Financial Reporting and Analysis Responsibilities
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Balance the institute’s funds at the end of each fiscal period.
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Prepare monthly investment reconciliation and journal entries for the monthly changes in the
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Association’s investment accounts.
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Monthly reconciliation of Balance sheet accounts except for banks reconciliations.
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Prepares and processes release invoices for 44 units and 30 occasional representatives and
maintenance monthly/yearly accrual balances.
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Maintains and inputs yearly budgets into SAGE300 for the general fund, reserve fund and membership
protection fund,
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Works with various departments on financial accounting and reporting including assistance with the
creation of annual budgets for example professional development department; political action fund.
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Prepares and processes, using SAGE 300, BI module Financial Statements by Fund at the end of
each fiscal period (ex. Revenue and Expenditure Statement and Balance Sheet Statement)
including Consolidated Financial Statements.
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Administrator for SAGE 300 upgrades and the various modules especially the Business Intelligence
module for financial statements formats.
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Maintains the Association’s chart of accounts adding/inactivate those accounts that are no longer
used and insuring that the financial statements reflect these accounts.
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Assist with the preparation of the annual operating and tax reconciliation reports for tenants.
Assists with the preparation and submission of the HST return for the Tenant Building Fund.
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Prepares monthly financial statements for all funds, assists in the review of financial report
reconciliations, and assigned working papers prepared by finance staff.
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Assist with the preparation of required documents for various Association internal and external
meetings.
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Prepare monthly statistics for CFO reports and trends in memberships revenue, FTE calculations,
and workshop/conference attendance.
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Responsible for internal and external financial reporting for the assigned programs including
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Ministry reporting.
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Performs continuous assessment of the month-end and year-end closing process and evaluates
ways to reduce the timing to close the financial period.
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Assists in ensuring financial and budgeting processes are appropriately linked to projects while also
identifying opportunities for cost savings and revenue generation.
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Assist in the preparation of cash flow for the General Fund and producing monthly reports for the
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General Funds and total projections and analysis.
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Create and analyze financial/statistical reports on a regular basis, taking remedial action to resolve
identified issues.
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Monitor, analyze and reconcile variances from approved budget.
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Assists department staff with general inquiries regarding SAGE other document management
systems;
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Co-ordinates with the Operations Department on issues related to obtaining authorizations on
requisitions, and purchase orders and setting up Accounts Payable Vendors
Payroll and Benefits Administration
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Back-up for payroll and benefits processing for three payroll accounts, staff, professional
development consultants and for staff officers and management
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Prepare bi-weekly; bi-monthly and monthly journal entries for all the various payrolls
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Assists in the annual audit of the Pension plan and the annual reports for the calculation of
pension adjustment
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Other job duties as assigned.
About You
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CPA, CGA or CMA designation
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At least 4 years of full cycle accounting (month end, consolidations, variance analysis, intercompany, etc)
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Experience with ERP (ie. Sage or similar)
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Experience with fund accounting and non-for-profit accounting a plus
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Experience in payroll a plus
Salary Range
From $90,632 /year
How to Apply
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You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.
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