Senior Accountant

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

• English

Education

·      Bachelor’s Degree

Experience

·      At least 2years to 3 years of work experience as an accountant or related field.

 Duties:

* Lead delivery of strategic engagements spanning tax planning & advisory, CRA corporate tax audit, and compliance protocols for diverse portfolio of clients.

* 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

·       Reliability

·       Team player

·       Ability to multitask

·       Adaptability

·       Due diligence

·       Proactive

How to Apply

Email: clients@adoffice.ca