Accountant

Overall Purpose:

As a bookkeeper, you will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records and performing various accounting tasks. You will be responsible in maintaining records and knowing where every number in our company is from, is now and will go.

Responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to the following:

Accountabilities:

All Systems Go

• Ensure reliability and integrity of financial reporting
• Record transactions on time
• Pay bills on time

Cash

• Ensuring we always have sufficient funds in bank
• Knows how much cash - daily, weekly, monthly (analyst)
• Reporting up to date
• Manage A/R and A/P
• Financial planning and budgeting
• Projections and modeling
• CapEx, etc.
• Support development of new sources of revenue

Internal Stakeholders

• Develop relationships with CEO and operations leaders to maintain ongoing financial literacy and effective use of resources
• Collecting, analysis and distribution of financial metrics
• Must have systems and troubleshooting support
• Identify patterns and trends to help the system
• Help internal team leaders make money

Financial Process Oversight (Internal Audit)

• Enforce policies and procedures across the company
• Internal audit of contracts, etc.
• Spot audits of non-financial processes
• Reporting of findings

Growth

• Outsourcing / streamlining of finance processes
• Uncover opportunities

Compliance / Legal

• Develop and administer policies and practices for centralized accounting and financial reporting, treasury, income tax planning and reporting, payroll and benefits administration, insurance and risk assessment
• Negotiates and maintains contractual agreements with third parties

Corporate Governance

• Financial information and compliance the way our leaders (board) need it

Strategic Partner

• Be “forward-thinking”
• Owns the financial strategy
• Participate in planning process (i.e. strategy and annual plan), mergers and acquisitions and other key senior management team matters

External Relationships

• Banking / financial relationships (i.e. current and potential investors)
• Effectively represent the company’s interests when dealing with competitors (i.e. potential acquisitions), external organizations (i.e. auditors), and experts such as legal and tax advisors

Role Specific Competencies

Enjoys getting into the details

• Roll up the sleeves attitude

Can manage the “1000 little pieces” all at once

• Default approach is to be very hands on
• Lack of attention to detail is never the cause of the problem

Problem-solver with “common-sense smarts”

• Take an idea and generate options versus just taking instructions
• Independent thinker
• Matches a practical approach to sophisticated situations, with ease
• Generates sensible, realistic, practical solutions to problems

Strong accounting experience

• CPA
• US tax experience/knowledge not required but would be an asset

Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, qualifications, or requirements. The company reserves the right to modify the job description at any time based on business needs.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $60,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Vision care
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

• Accounting: 5 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Chartered Professional Accountant (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Vancouver, BC (required)

Work Location: In person