Staff Accountant

Under the direction of the Manager of Financial Operations, the Staff Accountant is responsible to assist in the success of a full accounting cycle. The primary responsibility of the Staff Accountant is to support the Manager of Financial Operations in bookkeeping functions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records and tax filings
• Conduct account analysis and reconciliation to ensure accuracy of financial data
• Complete monthly account receivable and payable duties for the finance team, journal entry postings to the general ledger and tasks relating to the monthly accounting cycle
• Complete monthly bank statement reconciliations
• Complete monthly credit card reconciliations
• Complete monthly financial reporting
• Complete monthly HST remittance
• Support front desk coverage when necessary
• Work with management to prepare and assist with internal and external audits, ensuring all financial records and processes are thoroughly documented
• Maintain internal control procedures for all vendor and customer accounts with respect to invoice processing, vendor payment, customer collection and posting
• Work with management monthly to review and track vendor accounts and electronic payment structures

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to read and interpret complex material
• Willingness to take initiative and follow through on projects
• Effective organizational and time management abilities ensuring deadlines are consistently met
• Experience working with QuickBooks as an asset
• Experience working with Yardi as an asset
• University or college degree Business Administration with preference given to specializing in Accounting
• Minimum two years accounting experience

Skills

• attention to detail
• Reliable
• Technology
• Time Management

About Tawaak Housing Association
Tawaak Housing Association is one of many Urban Native Housing Corporations that sprung up in most major Canadian cities since the early 1970's in response to a growing need for a separate Aboriginal housing program within the over all framework of the Canadian social housing delivery system. Given existing patterns of societal actions (discrimination and exclusion) coupled with the Aboriginal community's education and employment levels (lower than the non-Aboriginal population in both), was a recognition that the core housing needs of an urban Aboriginal population, migrating from rural areas and reserves, could be better served by separate and distinct Aboriginal housing groups.

Formed in 1981, Tawaak Housing Association is a private non-profit housing corporation that owns, operates and delivers socially assisted rental housing in six urban areas of Nova Scotia. The mandate of the housing corporation is to provide suitable, adequate and affordable housing to Aboriginal peoples of low to moderate income who reside in urban areas of the province, who cannot attain housing through the regular housing market. Assisted by both the Federal Government and the Government of Nova Scotia, Tawaak's portfolio consists of fifty-four properties comprising of one hundred and forty-five units supported under the Urban Native Housing Program and the Private non-profit housing program. Approximately eighty-two percent of the portfolio is located in the urban centers of Halifax and Dartmouth, while the remainder are located in Sydney, Truro, Antigonish, Liverpool and Bridgewater.

Are you interested?

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits
• Employer RRSP plan 9% matching
• Continuing education support
• Opportunity for internal career growth
• Casual dress
• Dental care
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care
• Option to work from home some of the time (after probation)