Jr Finance Clerk

Reports to: Finance Manager

Department: Finance

Location: Remote with Training Onsite

**Job Type**: Part Time (24-30 Hours per week)

**About Bench Brewing**:
Located in the heart of Niagara’s wine country, our farmhouse brewery is located on the site of the historic Maple Grove Public School in Beamsville, Ontario. Our brewery is a place for our guests to relax, learn, and experience the craft of brewing beer. The Bench Brewing Campus sits across eight beautiful acres and will feature a 50hL brewing system, a tap and tasting room, a beer garden, a ‘funk house’ for our wild ale and barrel fermentation program, and our very own hops field. Our property houses a beautiful catholic church built in 1938 that has been converted to the Fieldstone at Bench. It has an indoor seating capacity 100 guests and during the warmer seasons the events lawn can seat up to 225 guests.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Finance Manager, the primary role of the Finance Clerk is to handle matching invoices to purchase orders, data entry, and assisting in all areas of Accounts Payable (A/P) and Accounts Receivable (A/R).

**Responsibilities**
- Administer full cycle accounts receivable and payable
- Answer customer and vendor inquires and calls for follow-up
- Work with new clients and vendors to accurately onboard them and create their partner profiles in Bench’s ERP systems
- Proactively identify and escalate, as necessary, past due customer accounts and recommend actions for resolving delinquent accounts
- Create, generate and follow up directly on invoices and account statements
- Provide accounting and clerical support to the Finance department
- Assist in processing and reconciling credit card transactions - Prepare bank deposits, general ledger postings and statements
- Handle general accounting tasks: help with G/L account reconciliation, prepare month end reports, and assist with month-end closing
- General administrative accounting duties and ad hoc projects in support of the Finance team

**Qualifications**
- A post-secondary degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
- 1 to 3 years of experience in full cycle accounting
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel - advanced data analysis skills considered an asset
- The ability to learn new systems quickly - we operate within an industry specific software
- Excellent communication and analytical skills, ability to obtain information to make decisions in relation to identified issues and to be able to provide recommendations
- The ability to operate in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Experience with Odoo or other ERP systems would be considered a strong asset
- The drive to win as a team - collaborating to achieve success is what we do here at Bench
- A willingness to lift the occasional keg or case of beer

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: $18.00-$22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 24 per week

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Discounted or free food
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lincoln, ON L3J 1E7: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Secondary School (preferred)

**Experience**:

- QuickBooks: 1 year (preferred)
- Bookkeeping: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lincoln, ON L3J 1E7