Accountant

Primary Duties / Responsibilities

• Perform daily core in-house accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, and customer invoicing

• Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting, and recording into QuickBooks Online
• Perform monthly account analysis and reconciliation, including bank statements and intercompany general ledger accounts.
• Notify and report to senior management concerning any trends that are critical to the organization’s financial performance.

• Orchestrate customer order product processing with distributors and vendors in collaboration with the sales team.
• Participate in multi-approval payments processing and online bill payments.
• Track fixed assets and prepare depreciation schedules.
• Preparation of government source deductions including WSIB, HST, EHT.
• Expense and receipts inventory, scanning, and reconciliation.
• Prepare month and quarter-end management financial reports as required by management
• Work with external accountants as necessary on ad hoc assignments and preparation of year-end accounting tasks.
• Develop process documentation for all key routine tasks and accounting functions with the maintenance of the documentation to ensure it remains current.

• Support bi-weekly Payroll function.

• Support vendor management and vendor relationships.
• Other office and administrative duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of direct workplace book keeping and accounting experience required
• Strong knowledge and proficiency of QuickBooks Online, preparing HST returns, and generally accepted accounting principles
• Experience in IT or professional services environment
• Strong organisational skills and extreme attention to detail
• Act with fiduciary and fiscal responsibility
• Act with a positive customer service attitude
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly with an adaptable mindset
• Ability to work independently or as part of a small- to medium-size team.
• Must be willing to work at minimum 3 days on-site in office at corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario.
• Must be flexible and dependable, and act with accountability/ownership.
• Formal education in accounting considered an asset
• Languages: English with fluency in French considered an asset