Cloud Bookkeeping Manager

**Cloud Bookkeeping Manager**
**Firm Description**
SRJ Chartered Professional Accountants is ranked as one of the Greater Toronto Area’s top accounting, cloud bookkeeping, and tax accounting firms, servicing clients across the country and worldwide. We are registered with the Chartered Public Accountants of Ontario and are known for providing professional tax and accounting services.
**Vision**
SRJ Chartered Professional Accountants offers a fresh new take on accounting. Specializing in cloud-based software, we help small-medium businesses better manage their finances in a collaborative and paperless way. We help our business owners by solving their problems and giving them honest advice. As we transition to a mostly online firm, our team of remote experts utilizes innovative technologies to empower business owners with the tools they need to grow their businesses efficiently and effectively. With that said, our clients and staff maintain the option to come in and work/meet in a physical office setting, for those times when it is beneficial to do so. With a strong belief in company culture, we continuously challenge ourselves to provide exemplary service to clients while still maintaining a positive work/life balance.
**Our Culture**
We offer an employee-centric workplace that respects your time, contributions, and value to our team. Through flexible work arrangements, competitive salaries, a dynamic health care plan &
a succession planning program, we believe that the only way to grow strong is to grow as a team.
**Job Summary**
You will be part of a growing national team supporting weekly, monthly and quarterly engagements across a diverse group of industries and will deliver a variety of cloud-based assignments for clients across the country including
- Setting up clients in QBO and/or Xero, Payroll, and setup of apps with connection to the database.
- Catch up and/or clean up client databases (some clients inherit their existing QBO or Xero databases).
- Document the processes you have established for the ongoing bookkeeping for the team.
- Full cycle bookkeeping on various clients in a number of industries.
- Responsibilities include reconciliation of bank balances and credit card transactions, processing of sales and purchases invoices, overseeing payroll processing, and recording ad hoc adjusting entries on a regular basis utilizing cloud-based software and apps.
- Other functions such as GST/HST filings, and month-end / quarterly reviews will form part of your responsibilities.
- Ongoing communication with clients and their representatives throughout the year, utilizing various communication tools.
**Roles and Responsibilities**
The position requires you to report to the Senior Production Manager/Tax and Accounting Manager
- Record day-to-day financial transactions and complete the posting process.
- Verify that transactions are recorded in the correct supplier's ledger, customer ledger, and general ledger.
- Bring the books to the trial balance stage.
- Perform partial checks of the posting process.
- Ensure data, maintain records, and create reports and financial statements.
- Process accounts receivable/payable and handle payroll in a timely manner.
- Deal with clients on a one-on-one basis and assist them with any questions relating to the accounting cycle.
- Filing invoices and client files.
- Strong time-management abilities and self-motivation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Excellent client service skills, with the ability to understand the clients’ requests
- Your major role is to perform all the activities of a financial controller.
- You will work with your Manager, helping train you in technical knowledge, and reviewing your work.
- Can perform all the tasks of an experienced Bookkeeper.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Excellent communication skills and confidence.
- Directed by and reportable to Senior Production Manager.
- Ability to manage and prioritize workload.
- Willingness to learn and can adapt to changes.
**Team Work**
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
- From time to time you may be asked to review and check less qualified and experienced team members’ work.
- You will be required to work in a team and be willing and able to delegate work when asked to by your Manager.
**Technical Requirements - Training To Be Provided**
- Perform bank reconciliation.
- Can prepare sales invoices in the client's accounting system.
- Enter supplier's tax invoices in the client's accounting system.
- Process payments of A/P and collections of A/R.
- Can resolve the recurring reconciling items showing in the reconciliation reports like Bank Reconciliation, Trade Payables/Receivables.
- Can do payroll data entry processing and be able to reconcile with relevant records.
- Understanding of the flow of accounting transactions up to the financial statements level.
- Have a good