Posted by: A & D OFFICE SERVICES LTD.
Senior Accountant
Job Title: Senior Accountant (NOC 11100)
Employer: A & D OFFICE SERVICES LTD.
Location: 10200 8 ST suite 116Dawson Creek, BCV1G 3P8
Vacancy: 1
Wage: $38.50 per hour for 40 hours a week
Employment groups to include: persons with disabilities, indigenous, newcomers to Canada, student, and vulnerable youth
Terms of employment: Term or contract
Start Date: as soon as possible
Job Requirements:
Languages
Education
· Bachelor’s Degree
Experience
· At least 2years to 3 years of work experience as an accountant or related field.
Duties:
* Lead strategy and teams in business development and attraction of new jobs to the firm.
* Lead full cycle of multiple clients’ facing engagements across tax planning, advisory, compilation and wide varying issues in accounting and taxation.
* Prepare and review work, including necessary steps to complete compilation reports on own without guidance that meet CPA engagement standards for reporting.
* Prepare and review corporate, personal and trust tax returns. Executes planning of files, computes tax owed and produce necessary tax compliance slips, ensuring compliance with government standards and requirements.
* Review DOD and T3 returns for planning and compliance.
* Oversee and review year-end tax forms (T4s and T5s) firm-wide.
* Provide necessary technical and explanatory response to client questions and queries.
* Constantly reviews risks and raise identified technical issues on transactions and operational issues on accounting and tax.
* As firm’s accountable engagement lead for tax, accounting, bookkeeping and compilation engagements, stay on top of report and progress of all projects.
* Oversee and review bank, credit card, pos and other account reconciliations during bookkeeping review.
* Work with accounting software and provide support to clients as required.
* Accountable for the development, management and maintenance of relationships with clients.
* Constantly contribute to the development of new ideas and approaches to improve work processes.
* Execute expert level, high quality deliverables in taxation and assurance which often involve management presentation, technical memo/report development and various other quality client interactions of industry standard;
* Prepare, plan and executes Financial Statement and management reports, with note disclosures;
* Plan, analyze, prepare, and file tax returns spanning corporate (T2), trusts, partnership, and complex personal returns.Set up new clients’ tax file on software and safe relevant tax workpaper online in data base.
* Review prior years’ return and tax history to identify errors, omission and optimization opportunities for new clients.
* Effectively seeks to understand clients’ business, risk profile, opportunities for value add, relationship management and business growth in the management of clients’ portfolio assigned.
* Execute clients’ business processes and policy evaluation and recommend proactive tax strategies that drives operational efficiencies and enables business opportunities.
* Plan, reviews and organizes teams in preparation of tax returns and delivery of tax research for planning/advisory engagement;
* Action and respond to CRA queries (reviews and audit) and prepares relevant technical memos, report and consolidates and submit relevant documents.
* Review and execute full cycle of compilation engagement projects.
* Administer design and update of various tax return and master file control list, fee calculation sheet as part of compliance administration.
* Calculate reserves, tax provisioning, carry forwards, tax instalments and arrange for timely payments
* Lead and execute the full cycle of engagement of terminal and estate returns: planning, compliance, optimizations, risks and clearance certificate processing.
* Executes income, wage/compensation planning for shareholders and their corporations.
* Team Leadership: set clear expectation, conduct performance appraisal, provide feedback on reviews and guide towards meeting expectation;
* Provides ongoing mentoring support for development needs of staff
* Stay ahead of regulatory developments and updates for planning on assigned files.
* Regularly contribute ideas, suggests improvements to processes and drive business development initiatives.
* Review and prepare election forms required in corporate re-organization;
* Liaise and engages Canada Revenue Agency on corporate and personal tax audit defense, prepares & file objections, respond to review requests and various other client issues
* Manage administrations, team coordination, work flow planning and technical reviews in busy tax seasons;
Work Conditions
· Fast-paced environment
· Work under pressure
· Tight deadlines
· Attention to detail
· Large caseload
· Large workload
Personal Suitability:
· Accurate
· Client focus
· Dependability
· Efficient interpersonal skills
· Excellent oral communication
· Excellent written communication
· Flexibility
· Initiative
· Interpersonal awareness
· Judgement
· Organized
· Team player
· Ability to multitask
· Adaptability
· Due diligence
· Proactive
How to Apply
Email: clients@adoffice.ca