Job Description
We are looking for a motivated, creative, highly technically skilled individual with excellent time-management skills, capable of working in a Principal Consultant role with minimal supervision, who is excited about a challenge and wants to work remotely - FOREVER.
Why Us?
“From the beginning I have felt a part of a team, valued for what I could bring to the table even as a new staff member. I feel valued, challenged and encouraged. From my first day, the tone was set that we are a collaborative group of professionals, and despite working remotely, there is still a feeling of a cohesive team.”
Do you want to work with a company whose team’s vision is to enable financial officers and departments to:
- Spend less time on mundane repetitive tasks? Using their education, skills and experience to provide valuable guidance to their stakeholders?
- Remain calm when there is turnover? Retain members because they are engaged with challenging, interesting and valuable work?
- Manage minimal turnover? Have the tools in place to manage change with minimal interruption to their most difficult processes?
About Us:
For nearly 30 years, F. H. Black & Company Incorporated has implemented, integrated, and optimized industry-leading tools and best practices to improve our clients' finance function. Our mission is to enable our clients 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?
- Dislike "the same-old-same-old"?
- Like to work outside your comfort zone, doing interesting and difficult 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 challenging 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?
- Loathe commuting and being stuck in traffic, wasting your time?
If you answered yes to all the above, you are a great fit for our firm's culture and should read on.
Still here? Now, how about your technical attributes?
You possess:
- A CPA designation
- 3 to 5 years of experience working in public sector or corporate finance
- A proven ability to learn and master technology
- A minimum of 3 years of work experience with one or more of the following:
- Workiva Wdesk and Wdata
- Caseware Working Papers, Financials, and Connector
- Project management experience
- 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, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- 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:
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Caseware Idea
- Trintech or Blackline's Continuous Accounting platform
- Balancing Act budget simulations platform
- Questica Budget
- SAP Concur Invoice Solutions
- Experience programming
Job Duties:
As a Principal Consultant, you will work on a team to improve our clients' finance and budget office business processes. Specifically, you will be responsible for:
- Implementation and support respecting industry-leading tools from Caseware, Workiva, IGM, Blackline, and Balancing Act
- Development and delivery of standard and customized training
- Diverse, ongoing consulting services
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Compressed work week option
- Generous vacation policy
- Work remotely - from home or with a laptop and WiFi, from wherever you can take a VoIP call!
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision care coverage
- Fitness and professional development reimbursement
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