Accounting Assistant

**About Us**
Canada Pump and Power is a leader in industrial marine construction, offering specialized services including pumps, barges, dredging, commercial diving, and custom engineering solutions. We are committed to delivering high-quality work in challenging environments, backed by a dedicated team of professionals.

**Position Overview**

**Accountabilities**:

- Follow company processes and company Safe Work Procedures and Practices
- Work within company, customer, and other existing standards and regulations pertaining to their scope of work
- Reporting and rectifying of potential hazards, accidents, and near misses
- Assist with job costing reporting, reconciliations
- Assist with recurring monthly accruals and allocations
- Assist with analyzing income statements for correctness and report on variances
- Assist with accurate and timely reconciliation of all divisional balance sheet accounts including bank reconciliations
- Assist with preparation of monthly working papers to support the financial statements
- Assist with preparation of bank reporting
- Assistance with the preparation of the year-end financial reporting working papers
- Document and Data control
- Process and file purchase order
- Process and file work orders
- Credit Card reconciliations
- Set up Credit with customers
- Prepare job contracts
- Collect customer satisfaction reports, surveys, and questionnaires
- Daily reporting of functions
- Distribute and review quality assurance forms
- Receive, process, and file invoices
- Manage office supply orders
- Promote a healthy company culture built around our Mission, Vision, and Golden Rules

**Competencies**:

- Action Oriented - enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things they see as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others
- Comfort Around Higher Management - Can deal comfortably with more senior managers; can present to more senior managers without undue tension and nervousness; understands how senior managers think and work; can determine the best way to get things done with them by talking their language and responding to their needs; can craft approaches likely to be seen as appropriate and positive
- Conflict Management - Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.
- Integrity and Trust - Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent themselves for personal gain.
- Informing - Provides the information people need to know to do their jobs and to feel good about being a member of the team, unit, and/or the organization; provides individuals information so that they can make accurate decisions; is timely with information.
- Perseverance - Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Motivating Others - Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members; can assess each persons hot button and use it to get the best out of them; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel their work is important; is someone people like working for and with.
- Planning Skills - Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
- Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
- Process Management - Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

**Requirements**:

- Legally allowed to work in Canada and the province where work is being conducted.
- Accounting Degree working towards CPA or CA designation
- Technically inclined with a high proficiency in Microsoft Office programs
- Ability to deal with change in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written skills in English
- High sense of urgency while maintain accuracy
- Provide a clean Cri