The Junior Accountant supports the day-to-day accounting and financial operations of the company, helping ensure financial transactions are accurately recorded, reconciliations are completed, and financial records are maintained in a timely manner.
This role is responsible for a wide range of accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, payroll, general accounting and month-end activities. The successful candidate is organized, detail-oriented, curious and eager to develop their accounting knowledge while contributing to an efficient and well-functioning finance team.
This is a full-time remote position, and candidates must be already located in Canada with legal working eligibility. Preference will be given to those based in the Greater Vancouver or Vancouver Island regions.
- Accounts payable management - including processing bills, weekly payment runs, communication with vendors
- Accounts receivable management - including invoicing customers, monitoring collections, and communication with customers and internal account managers
- Cash management - including daily updates and management
- Processing expense reports, following up on reports awaiting approvals, credit card transactions, and reconciliations
- Maintaining and reconciling working papers and schedules
- Preparing journal entries, including import files
- Internal monthly reporting duties
- Preparing and filing regulatory filings such as GST, PST, and WCB
- Preparing and processing payroll
- Preparation of year-end working papers and support audit requests
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve accounting processes and efficiencies
- Provide support on adhoc projects
- A driver and a self-starter who is able to work independently with a great attention to detail.
- Strong ownership of work, and follow-through
- Genuinely cares about making a difference and impact on the team
- 2+ years of experience in an industry position working in a similar role and capacity
- A quick learner that is keen to expand their role
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Finance/Accounting or related discipline preferred
- Previous experience with accounting software required, experience with Xero and Expensify would be an asset
- Canadian payroll experience would be great
- Working knowledge of full cycle accounting
- Strong Google Sheets skills required for this role (including lookups, pivot tables, etc.)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to learn, improve and adapt as the company will continuously re-evaluate and add new processes to support its rapid growth
- Strong team player with a desire to be part of a collaborative team environment
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Good communication and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
