Accounting & Administrative Clerk

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) is an ISO 9001:2015-registered organization established in 1975 to provide a unique resource to both prairie farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers. Today, in addition to continuing our agricultural priorities, PAMI has also evolved to serve the needs of both the mining and transportation industries. With a professionally diverse staff, PAMI is committed to providing excellence in product development, testing, and design. We offer our clients access to valuable agricultural testing and benchmarking equipment as well as first-rate testing equipment for industry. PAMI also offers computer-aided engineering technologies. With these technologies, PAMI is able to digitally prototype a structure, bulk material, or fluid to analyze the performance of a particular product or system.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the _Director, Finance_ and, where applicable, under the direction of the _Controller, _the incumbent provides accounting and administrative services for the organization.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
This is an important accounting and administrative role within the business enablement team. The key responsibility is to support timely and accurate flow of business information ensuring financial risks related to fraud and errors are minimized. The following are the general duties of the position but are not inclusive of all tasks that may be required:
**Administrative**:

- Support the CEO and Director of Finance in helping make the organization operate efficiently while also helping establish a productive, safe, happy, and healthy work environment
- Responsible for all shipping and receiving
- Collect and distribute mail
- Welcome visitors, clients, other VIPs to our office - both in person and over the phone

**Accounting**:

- Perform accounts payable functions including purchase order, invoice processing, and cheque preparation
- Prepare deposits and deliver to bank
- Assist with account and bank reconciliations, including inventory
- Assist with month and year end procedures
- Coordinate timely payment of accounts payable
- Validate that all visa and expense reports are completed and approved in a timely manner
- Ensure accuracy of account coding on invoices
- Support the controller with banking needs
- File and keep the financial information including but not limited to AP and AR well organized so that they are easily accessible by key managers for audit and decision-making purposes
- Assist with other responsibilities as requested by the Director of Finance or CEO

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:

- Must be comfortable with technology
- Able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while still maintaining a smile
- Desire to succeed individually but also see merit being part of a great team in an office setting
- Knowledge working with SAGE or other accounting programs will be beneficial
- General knowledge - Microsoft Office

**Credentials and Experience**:

- Ideally 1-2 years of relevant post-secondary education or equivalent experience

**Benefits**:

- Signing bonus
- Pension Plan
- Group Insurance Benefits
- Annual Paid Vacation Leave
- Competitive Salary

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person