We are looking for a motivated, creative, highly technically skilled individual with excellent time management skills. The successful candidate will be capable of working as an Accounting Technician with autonomy and must be excited about challenges and working remotely.

About Us:

For over 25 years, our firm has implemented, integrated, and optimized industry-leading tools and best practices to improve our clients' finance function. Our mission is to enable finance to do more with less, do it better than it was done before, and do it faster. Our clients are governments, universities, corporations, and public practice accounting firms across Canada and the United States.  

About You:

Do you:

• Thrive on challenges?  
• Like to work outside your comfort zone, doing difficult & interesting things? 
• Often find yourself saying, "There has to be a better way of doing this"?  
• Need to be continuously learning and evolving?  
• Achieve great satisfaction in helping others and providing creative solutions to difficult problems?  
• Want to be led, not micro-managed?  
• Value flexibility? Flexibility to live anywhere in the world and the freedom to relocate whenever it suits you?  
• Loath commuting and being stuck in traffic, wasting your time?  

If you answered yes to all the above, you are an excellent fit for our firm's culture and should read on.  

Still here? Now, how about your technical attributes? 

You possess:

• 3 to 5 years of accounting technician experience working in public practice accounting, or public sector or corporate finance,
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience with Workiva & Wdata, 
• 2+ years of experience building custom CaseView documents, 
• A proven ability to learn and master technology, 
• The capacity to solve complex challenges within a defined framework and timeline, 
• Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills. You are a regular, clear, concise, and professional communicator, 
• The ability to effectively use the entire MS Office Suite including Outlook, Word & PowerPoint, and an Excel Power User, 
• A knack for building solid relationships; people want to work with you, 
• Impeccable attention to detail and high standards for quality and creativity, 
• Solid time management skills: we don’t believe in micro-managing our people, 
• Sensitivity to confidential matters. 

The perfect candidate will also possess:

• Familiarity with other finance department tools such as PowerBi, Blackline, Trintech, Gravity, SAP Concur Invoice Solutions.
   

Job Duties:

• As an Accounting Technician you will work on a team to improve our clients’ financial reporting –  such as building the background templates for general ledger builds.
• Specifically, you will be responsible for assisting in the implementation for industry-leading tools: Workiva Wdesk and Wdata. 
• Diverse, ongoing technical accounting consulting services. 

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary 
• Work remotely - from home or with a laptop and Wi-Fi from wherever you can take a VOIP call! (Did you want to work from the beach or the cottage?) 
• Compressed Work Week 
• Generous Vacation Policy 
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision care coverage  
• Fitness and professional development reimbursement 

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