Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

SRJ Chartered Professional Accountants is ranked as one of the Greater Toronto Area's top accounting, cloud bookkeeping, and tax accounting firms, servicing clients across the country and worldwide. We are registered with the Chartered Public Accountants of Ontario and are known for providing professional tax and accounting services.

We offer a fresh new take on accounting. Specializing in cloud-based software, we help small-to-medium-sized businesses better manage their finances in a collaborative and paperless way. We help our business owners by solving their problems and giving them honest advice. As a remote firm, our experts utilize innovative technologies to empower business owners with the tools they need to grow their businesses efficiently and effectively. With a strong belief in company culture, we continuously challenge ourselves to provide exemplary service to clients while maintaining a positive work/life balance.

We offer an employee-centric workplace that respects your time, contributions, and value to our team. Through flexible work arrangements, competitive salaries, a dynamic health care plan & a succession planning program, we believe that the only way to grow strong is to grow as a team.

The Senior Accountant will be an integral part of the firm. The incumbent is responsible for undertaking all production accounting activities, including preparation, review, and analysis of financial statements and taxation requirements and delivering associated quality, professional accounting outcomes. The ideal candidate has in-depth knowledge of taxation, bookkeeping, and admin procedures and will be an asset to the Accounting team. Candidates will be expected to maintain bookkeeping duties for a small number of clients as well as play a large role in the tax preparation of individuals, corporations, partnerships, and on occasion trust returns.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Preparation of compilation engagement files to be submitted to the Partners for review;
• Preparation of corporate and personal income tax returns;
• Establish and maintain strong client relationships;
• Tax consulting to firm clients including tax planning and analysis;
• HST return preparation and filing along with GST/HST audit support;
• Maintain client files to ensure accurate and timely completion of returns and schedules;
• Tax research and memo creation to discuss the tax treatment of complex transactions;
• Create efficiency within the firm to streamline processes and improve the quality of engagement files;
• Support Partners in business development initiatives;
• The position requires you to report to the Senior Client Manager or the Senior Production Manager;
• Your major role is to process and complete annual financial statements and prepare income tax returns;
• You will work with your Senior Manager, helping train you in technical knowledge and reviewing your work.

Team Work

• Provide support and training to team members in related tasks;
• From time to time you may be asked to review and check less qualified and experienced team members' work and this could include accounting and tax work, bookkeeping, or payroll tasks.
• You will be required to work in a team and be willing and able to delegate work when asked to by your Manager.

Technical Requirements

The successful applicant needs a high level of technical knowledge and an ability to apply it to finalize jobs for clients.

• Preparing Financial Statements for:
• Self-employed individuals
• Partnerships
• Trust
• Corporations
• Preparing Income Tax Returns and Business Activity Statements for:
• Self-employed individuals
• Partnerships
• Trust
• Corporations

Technical Skills Requirements

• Monthly adjusting journal entries for corporation year-end financial statements and various income reports vs cash deposits;
• Communicating and responding to CRA notices and reviews;
• High problem-solving skills;
• Tax research, staying up to date on tax law changes, and anticipation of new tax law changes;
• High level of computer literacy;
• Excel proficiency.

Software Skills/Experience

• Caseware
• TaxPrep or ProFile
• Xero and QBO
• Microsoft (Word, Excel, etc.)

SRJ Chartered Professional Accountants is committed to the principles of equality and diversity in the workplace. We aim to hire the best candidate for the position based on their qualifications and merit in terms of knowledge, skills and experience. SRJ Chartered Professional Accountants will not discriminate against job applicants on any of the grounds protected by human rights legislation during any phases of the recruitment, screening and hiring process. We welcome applications from persons with disabilities and will provide accommodations during all stages of the hiring process, upon request.