Financial Accountant Expert

4 days ago


Saanich, Canada Alliance for Arts and Culture Full time

About Alliance for Arts and Culture

Alliance for Arts and Culture is a leading organization in the field of arts and culture. Founded in 1933, we have established ourselves as a learning institution that provides artistic and creative development opportunities to individuals from around the world.

Our organization offers a wide range of programs and services that cater to various disciplines, including music, dance, theater, visual arts, and more. We strive to provide our attendees with an exceptional experience that inspires them to unleash their creative potential.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Financial Accountant to join our team. As a key member of our financial department, you will be responsible for providing technical, administrative, and operational support for our full cycle of financial processes.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Provide assistance to Financial Services staff with training, technical accounting questions, policy and procedure questions, and troubleshooting accounting systems issues.
  • Assist with month-end close-out processes and journal entries.
  • Investigate and take action as needed to train and respond to questions on a wide variety of accounting, policy and procedure, and transaction processing matters from departments.
  • Understand how general ledger transactions flow through multiple financial systems and administer accordingly.
  • Investigate, journalize, and complete monthly bank reconciliations and other balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that all reconciling items are resolved.
  • Process incoming/outgoing payments, including wires, EFTs, pre-authorized debits, and foreign payments, and record all bank transactions.
  • Handle stop payments, void cheques, and cheque payment queries.
  • Prepare, compile, and/or process a wide variety of documents, reports, tax returns, and financial transactions, requiring the ability to identify issues, raise questions, and use good judgment to proactively resolve those issues/questions with departments and within Financial Services and meet reporting deadlines.
  • Assist with interim and year-end external audit processes.
  • Review/post month-end IDT journal entries and interdepartmental expense allocations.
  • Perform other month-end tasks, such as compiling, analyzing, and journalizing travel expenses, prepaid drawdown, online film sales cash receipt, and endowment contributions.
  • Review and verify incoming cheque logs for bank deposits.
  • Carry out additional duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 5 years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree preferably in accounting, actively working towards a CPA designation.
  • Equivalent education and experience will be considered.
  • Previous experience with the administration of accounts receivable, cashiering, and/or accounts payable is preferred.
  • Committed to professional service delivery.
  • Organized, flexible, and comfortable dealing with change.
  • Extremely accurate and highly attentive to detail.
  • Able to multi-task efficiently and effectively.
  • Thorough knowledge of full-cycle accounting practices as well as all applicable policies and procedures and accounting/control principles.
  • Strong computing skills and confident with desk-top software.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Works effectively in a team environment.

Benefits:

  • In accordance with CUPE 4318, this is a unionized, salaried support staff position, subject to a 6-month probation period.
  • The annual salary for this position is between $60,551 and $63,572, depending on experience, based on working 35 hours per week.
  • The successful candidate will have access to a range of benefits through Alberta Blue Cross and will be eligible to participate in our defined benefit pension plan.
  • Transitional staff housing options (based on availability).
  • Professional development.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Hybrid work environment (3 days in the office, 2 days remote).
  • Health care spending account.
  • Staff cafeteria and restaurant discounts.
  • Onsite fitness facility at a discounted rate – first month free for new staff.


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