Accounting Technician

At GMS, we've been helping Canadians for more than 75 years to get the health and travel insurance they want and need. The same pioneering spirit that started our story is what drives us to do things differently today. Insurance, honestly, is our promise, and it's what we do at GMS. We care about our customers, our community and each other. As a non-profit organization, we're proud to reinvest our profits into the health of the communities we serve and that have supported us since 1949.

We want our employees to feel good about coming to work and being in a workplace that promotes flexibility, growth and a healthy work-life balance. If you'd like to be part of a team that truly takes care of our customers, our communities, and each other, this could be your chance.

**Here's the role**
The Accounting Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring the Finance department provides timely, accurate, and reliable financial information for management and board decisions. This role focuses on comprehensive bookkeeping, financial reporting, and maintaining complete sets of financial records.

**Position Responsibilities**
- Prepare detailed journal entries and ensure adherence to accounting policies.
- Thoroughly reconcile general ledger and vendor accounts, identifying, investigating, and resolving discrepancies.
- Manage the accounts payable process, ensuring authorization, accuracy, and timeliness. Reconcile accounts payable on a regular basis.
- Manage and maintain the fixed asset process and register, ensuring budget and accounting policy adherence.
- Store departmental documents (physical and electronic), ensuring retention policy adherence and efficient retrieval.
- Support audit processes through document preparation/retrieval and compliance with audit procedures, ensuring readiness for both internal and external audits.
- Resolve billing or payment discrepancies with vendors, maintaining positive working relationships.
- Develop and generate detailed financial reports for internal users, including trial balances and financial statements.
- Accurately record and report changes within the corporate investment portfolio.
- Assist in comprehensive month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Analyze routine expenses and recommend cost-saving opportunities based on financial data.
- Assist in monitoring budgets, providing detailed financial insights.
- Identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of accounting processes; propose and implement improvements.
- Manage the procedures for the role, ensuring accuracy and clarity - document new procedures and keep current procedures up to date.

**Competencies**
- ** Quality Orientation**: Sets high expectations for self; ensures accurate delivery of work across the team; conducts extensive discussions with peers, business units and external business partners to ensure assumptions are complete.
- ** PlanningOrganizing**: Highly effective prioritization and time management skills; ability to influence others to contribute to the process and deliver quality results on time.
- ** Customer Focus**: Shows a strong commitment to satisfying the needs of internal and external customers; ensures and optimal outcome for both internal and external customers.
- ** Creativity and Innovation**: Develops fresh ideas to solve problems and discover opportunities; is able to grasp technical concepts, absorb new ideas and concepts quickly; has strong problem identification and problem resolution skills.

**EducationExperience**
- Completion of a 2-year diploma in accounting.
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in the accounting field.
- Proficient in use of accounting software.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including formula and pivot tables.
- Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), internal controls, procedure development, and/or insurance industry experience is an asset.

**When you become a GMSer, you can expect**:

- Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
- Personal and professional development initiatives.
- Social events, volunteer opportunities, and a whole lot of fun.
- Free coffee - yes, really And if tea is more of your vibe, we've got that covered too

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