Our client is a consulting firm that provides geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeological, materials engineering, material testing and inspection, and pavement technology solutions. This role will be reporting to the Finance Director.
General Accountant Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable
- Ensure vendor invoices are entered and posted into the systems correctly and promptly.
- Resolve any vendor invoice dispute.
- Review AP aging and process the vendor payments.
- Review and post employee expenses into the system.
- Ensure daily cash deposits and receipts are entered into the system.
- Work with the project accountant to collect any outstanding AR invoices from the client.
Month-end/Year-end Closing
- Ensure the following –
- Monthly vendor invoices and client billings are posted.
- Employee expenses are captured and posted.
- Weekly employee timesheets are reviewed and posted.
- Monthly/yearly journal entries are prepared and entered into the system.
- Perform quarterly HST reconciliation and process the payments.
- Perform monthly visa reconciliation
- Assist the finance director with the month-end/year-end functions.
- Work with the project accountant to ensure project financials are recorded accurately.
Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Update daily cash flow projection report
- Perform monthly/yearly account analysis and reconciliation.
- Perform bank reconciliation.
- Monthly financial analysis and reporting.
- Perform ad-hoc reporting requests, as required.
Systems and office administration
- Train and assist users on the system to approve timesheets and vendor invoices.
- Manage accounting emails.
- Organize and maintain financial documents and files
- Contribute to team process improvement initiatives.
- Perform ad-hoc functions as required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, or similar.
- 2-5 years experience as a general accountant
- Excellent knowledge of working with Deltek Vision/Vantagepoint application
- Have a good understanding of accounting practices and regulations.
- Excellent communication skills toward effective collaboration and client services.
