Senior Financial Officer

Ref ID: 05050-9503490563

Classification: Sr. Accountant

Compensation: $35.00 to $45.00 hourly

Our client in the Education sector is seeking a Senior Financial Officer for a 3-month contract (possible extension / permanent, full-time opportunity).

Reporting to the CFO, the Senior Financial Officer is responsible for the full-cycle accounting, accounts payable and receivable. The incumbent in this role is responsible for monitoring budgets, managing records, reconciling transactions, preparing reports and balance sheets. As a Senior Financial Officer, you will be working closely with various departments under the organization’s portfolio to ensure alignment and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performing full-cycle accounting and financial functions

• Overseeing and coordinating financial reporting for provincial and federal government funding

• Overseeing all accounts payable and accounts receivable functions

• Ensuring all month/quarter/year-end accounting duties and financial reporting are completed in a timely and accurate manner

• Working with payroll system to execute payroll and required filings, including generating and distributing T4s, ROEs

• Filing GST, WCB and other government remittances

• Preparing year-end auditing requirements and supporting the year-end audit process

Job Requirements:

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related discipline

• Minimum 4 years of related experience in accounting or finance roles

• CPA designation completed or in the process is preferred

• Must have prior experience in QuickBooks and advanced knowledge of Excel

• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication as well as written skills, coupled with a strong sense of self-motivation and accountability

• Excellent computer skills using office productivity software such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint

If you have the required experience and qualifications, please apply today!

While we appreciate all applications, we regret that we can only contact those candidates selected for an interview. We thank all applicants for their submissions.

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