Join a team of professionals who are passionate about helping clients across Canada build high-impact, meaningful foundations utilizing its customized donor advised funds. With its head office located in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada Gives offers a congenial office environment while standing by its highly regarded reputation as a professional “big city” firm. We are excited to add an Accounting Manager to our team to help us grow our NFP sector business to the next level.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to manage the overall accounting needs of the organization. As the Accounting Manager you will work closely with the administration and client services team, and report directly to the Founder & CEO, providing accurate and timely information, processing financial transactions, and reconciling and reporting on all financial information.
Accounting Responsibilities:
- Manage the full cycle of bookkeeping – maintain the general ledger and post transactions
- Prepare weekly and monthly internal reports for management
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations, corporate brokerage accounts reconciliations and conduct monthly reconciliations of corporate credit card account, petty cash
- Cash Flow analysis, and Budgeting
- Liaise with an external accountant and manage process for year-end audit
- Enter and track data for individual donor advised fund accounts (DAFs)
- Record quarterly investment gains(losses) and investment management fees + HST on all DAF accounts and reconcile to our proprietary software program
- Assist in processing grant requests and complete grant payments as required for each DAF account; track receipt of grants from charities
- Issue and process all donation tax receipts and allocate to individual DAF accounts
- Process vendor invoices, reconcile vendor statements and complete vendor payments for general account expenses
- Complete and submit tax forms for semi-annual HST rebate filings
- Manage banking activities including deposits and EFT or credit card vendor payments, cash flow and reserve balances
- Create customized financial reports as needed in accounting software (QuickBooks Premium edition for Not for Profits)
- Look for ways to improve accounting practices
- Maintain a filing system to keep detailed records of financial transactions
- Ensure the confidentiality and security of all financial files
Qualifications and experience:
- Advanced skill in QuickBooks desktop accounting software
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and all Microsoft office applications
- Minimum 10 years of experience performing all aspects of office accounting
- Advanced knowledge of fund accounting
- Familiarity with investment statements and the recording of market returns
- CPA or working towards a CPA would be an asset
Skills and attributes:
- Ability to work in a technical and focused environment
- Attention to detail: ensures accuracy and completeness of work
- Planning and organizing: the ability to prioritize and plan multiple activities and meet objectives within established
- Problem solving: the ability to seek out information using multiple internal programs/platforms, utilize all available resources, analyze problems, surmount barriers, and implement solutions
- Communication: the ability to effectively communicate at all organizational levels (both internally & externally) and in any environment in both verbal and written form
- Integrity: maintaining all legal, social, and organizational standards, including confidentiality and security of files
- Advanced knowledge of restricted and general funds for not-for-profits
- Familiarity with FileMaker will be an asset
- Overall professional and business acumen