Accounting Administrator

**About Us**:
Entertainment Partners is a global organization that has been a trusted production partner to the entertainment industry for over 45 years, helping clients create and produce great shows, choose the best production location, forecast, manage and track expenses, and pay crew and talent. As a global leader in entertainment payroll, production finance and production management solutions, EP delivers integrated, digital solutions to support every phase of production. EP brings together background casting and digital production technology with the Casting Portal, the leading SaaS-based platform that has transformed the way background actors are found, hired, managed and paid, and the iconic and legendary Central Casting.

Entertainment Partners Canada is the lead provider of financial services to the entertainment industry in Canada. We provide financial services to the Motion Picture, Television and Commercial industries along with production management and accounting software services. Entertainment Partners Canada prides itself on being the best in class from a product/services perspective but we are equally proud to have been _Great Places to Work _certified since 2017, providing an encouraging, accepting, and interesting work experience for all of our valued employees.

**Job Summary**:
Under the direction of the Finance Operations Manager, the Accounting Administrator is responsible for handling all aspects of the banking process including monitoring the payroll and remit bank accounts.

The Accounting Administrator's duties must be performed consistent with the Company’s mission and values and adhere to Company policies and procedures.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Ensures all electronic payments (EFT's and Wire Payments) are uploaded to CMO within the payment terms established for each client
- Liaises with CIBC and payroll department to resolve banking issues
- Maintains the NPS cheque register and ORACLE Cheque Register based on the daily CIBC Cheque Match report and returns cheques as necessary (i.e., stop payments, encoding errors) via CMO
- Processes daily cash transfers and prepares journal entries accordingly
- Balances and processes weekly bank transfers between Payroll, Remit, and Corporate bank accounts
- Contacts CIBC with fraud and forged endorsements and reissues payment to payee once funds have been credited
- Uploads positive pay file daily to CIBC for verification of all USD cheques generated
- Enters stop-payment requests on CIBC's CMO banking portal for USD cheques and reissues payment once confirmation is received
- Balance day to day transactions in Cash Management, ORACLE.
- Reconciles Payroll and Remit bank accounts monthly and prepares stale-dated cheque reports for all bank accounts
- Prepares working papers for month end reconciliation for GL accounts.
- Prepares the annual budget for stale dated cheque revenue
- Co-ordinates with AR Team to identify and record incoming cash receipts to release direct deposit file and wire payments
- Provides back-up support to other members of the Finance team as required
- Assists with special projects and other related duties as assigned by the Finance Operations Manager and the VP Finance.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 2 years related work experience in an accounting or banking environment
- Basic computer skills including MS Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Ability to work within a team environment
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Entry level accounting knowledge.
- Experience with ORACLE financial system or similar ERP system.

**Working conditions**
- Conditions are normal for an office environment
- The hours of work are 7.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday. Some overtime may be a requirement of this position.
- Hybrid work