Accounting Supervisor

Accounting Supervisor, Alair Homes

Who are we?

Alair Homes is a fast growing, energetic company that is continuously looking for driven and enthusiastic individuals to join our ever-growing team. Successful candidates are hungry to grow and learn and take on new responsibilities. Our diverse organizational culture focuses on people coming together to help build and support the most valuable, lowest risk, highest reward construction companies in the world!

‘Living Better Starts Here’ runs through all aspects of our business and focuses not only on our esteemed clients but all members of our team. Alair Homes thrives on a unique service delivery system combining custom contracting with a franchise business model and is the largest North American home building Franchise.

Our team is engaged, determined, and disciplined in helping develop our franchise Partners businesses to new heights and successes. Since being founded in Nanaimo in 2007, we have grown exponentially across North America, while maintaining our family-oriented, collaborative style of business.

What will you do?
Reporting to the Controller, you will be supporting your team of Accounting Administrators and helping to provide full cycle accounting services to multiple business owners. Our supervisors are there to ensure the entire team is accountable for their work and that the services provided meet Alair’s high-quality standards and specific deadlines. You will do this by being accountable, professional, and providing leadership.

You will be undertaking the following tasks:

Payables

• Assisting the accounting administrators to organize and prioritize their workload
• Ensuring that the accounting administrators have completed their work accurately and on time
• Reviewing payable summaries and AP Reconciliations prepared by Accounting Administrators
• Preparing and submitting semi-monthly franchise royalties on franchise sales deposits payable to Head Office
• Submitting payable packages to franchise owners for approvals by the deadline
• Ensuring approvals have been received by the specified deadlines
• Handling vendor and franchise owner queries that cannot be completed by an Accounting Administrator in a timely and professional manner
• Processing CAFT withdrawals in an accurate and timely manner
• Reviewing and printing all cheques and direct vendor payments as needed
• Preparing cash on hand reports for Controller review

Government Remittances and WCB

• Ensuring all applicable government and WCB remittances (i.e., GST/HST, Corporate Tax Installments and Source Deductions) have been prepared, filed, and included for payment by the appropriate deadline

Bank/Credit Card and Account Reconciliations and Cash Forecasts

• Reconciling all intercompany GL accounts on a semi-monthly basis
• Ensuing all accounting transactions have been reconciled to the bank/credit card statement balances
• Generating accurate cash forecasts for current and future payable deadlines that include all current vendor payables and expected expenditures by the required deadline

Profit Sheets

• Reconciling monthly profit sheets for Controller review

Corporate Fiscal Year End

• Reviewing Projects and Overhead GLs for consistency and accuracy
• Preparing final year-end profit sheets for Controller’s final review and accruals
• Reconciling and compiling supporting documents for all Balance Sheet GL accounts

What are we looking for?

• A self-motivated individual with an independent work ethic
• Someone who enjoys a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Someone who takes accountability and is dependable
• Someone who develops strong relationships based on trust and integrity both within your peer group and with others
• Someone who possesses intermediate to advanced computer skills, particularly in using MS Office Suite including Excel and Word
• Someone who has a minimum of 3 years of solid accounting experience
• Previous supervisory experience and/or experience training peers on work related tasks is required
• Post-secondary education in bookkeeping or accounting preferred but not essential

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Accounting: 3 years (required)

Work Location: Remote

Application deadline: 2023-11-03