Description

A terrific company could have the perfect full-time Staff Accountant position for you. Strong compensation, excellent benefits, and career advancement could be yours in this position. Are you ambitious and detail-oriented? Robert Half is seeking a Staff Accountant to join a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort. This company, based in the Winnipeg, Manitoba area, offers a challenging and multi-faceted opportunity where effort is rewarded. You will succeed in this position if you have the ability to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation and be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. If you're looking for work where you will participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes, this role might be right for you. If you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets, you will be preferred for this role.

What you get to do every day

- Coordinate and analyze a variety of financial data, then report it in a way that is useful and understandable

- Compose thorough journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

- Compose analyses for income statements and monthly balance sheets for management reporting

- Maintain fixed asset ledgers, depreciation, and reconciliation

- Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls while ensuring that accounting procedures comply with GAAP

- Conduct month end close and compose journal entries with minimal supervision

- Thorough experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations

- Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation

- Take part in various department-wide initiatives

- Manage intercompany billings, transactions, and reconciliation

- Organize schedules for monthly payments and capital lease

- Regular maintenance and reconciliation of journal entries

- Impromptu reporting and special projects, when requested

Requirements

- Notable analytical, quantitative and social skills

- 1+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience

- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

- Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills required

- Quarterly Taxes experience

- External auditing experience desired

- Individual tax experience preferred

- Experience with trust and estate taxes

- Proven knowledge of taxes

- Corporate tax experience

- Proficient with spreadsheets and databases

- Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases

- Be detailed, flexible, and organized

- Vow to meet business deadlines

- Proficient in ERP systems

- Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges

- Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic and constantly changing company environment