Job Title: Bookkeeper
Job Summary: Provides a range of accounting and bookkeeping services, including payroll for employees and clients.
Reports To: Team Leader for Finance
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Carries out bookkeeping and payroll tasks, such as completing staff and client payrolls, bank deposits and reconciliations, accounts payable, and other client payments.
- Prepares payroll for both clients and employees
- Responds to enquiries about client payroll received by phone and in person.
- Makes the necessary T4 series forms and balances them.
- Keeps accounting records
- Completes office work and other related tasks as needed
- Offers backup support for the Finance Team Leader
- Prepares and keeps track of Receiver General, WCB, MSP, employee benefits, and other required remittances.
- Installs and maintains accounting software and backup files
- Additional tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5-years of bookkeeping and payroll experience, as well as a minimum 2-year degree in a comparable discipline with a second-year accounting/payroll designation
- Knowledge of Provincial and Federal financial reporting regulations and experience managing numerous government contracts would be advantageous
- Must be aware of the provincial and federal procurement processes
- Must possess strong computer skills and be prepared to enhance them as needed
- Being familiar with community-based nonprofit activities and services is a plus
Job Skills and Abilities:
- a track record of multitasking in a situation where priorities can change quickly.
- Proven proficiency in running computerized accounting and payroll systems.
- The capacity to foresee and manage a changing workflow as well as effective time management abilities
- Effective verbal and written communication abilities
