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Accountant Jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Hays
Title: Accountant
Company: Hays
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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This is a 6 month contract and must be available to start asap.
This role is fully onsite in their downtown Toronto office (Bay Street)
This role is offering up to $29.00 per hour.
We have partnered with a property management company located in Downton Toronto and they're on the hunt for a Senior Accountant for a 6 month contract with potential for extension/ permanency.
Your new role:
- Answer escalated questions regarding various accounting issues and reports.
- Review the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications.
- Evaluate various complex accounting variances, reports, and records. Make recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures.
- Maintain, record, and reconcile billings and accounts receivables for large clients, markets, or accounts.
- Create month-end accounting entries.
- Reconcile discrepancies and posts to the general ledger.
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations.
- Check transactions from the subsystem to ensure data is accurately sent.
- Examine financial statements and documents for conformance with accounting requirements and fundamentals.
- Apply general knowledge of standard principles and techniques/procedures to accomplish assigned tasks and solve routine problems.
- Have a broad knowledge of own job discipline and some knowledge of several job disciplines within the function.
- Impact the quality of own work and the work of others on the team.
- Work primarily within standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines.
- Explain complex information to others in straightforward situations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or higher, with up to 3 years of relevant experience is preferred. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
- Yardi experience is an asset.
- Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate difficult figures such as percentages, fractions, exponents, and other financial-related calculations.
- Ability to use existing procedures to solve standard problems under tight deadlines.
- Experience with analyzing information and standard practices to make judgments.
- Organizational skills with a strong inquisitive mindset.
- Strong work ethic.
- Enrollment in the CPA program is an asset.
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