Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
Senior Accountant | $80,000–$100,000 | St. Catharines, ON (Hybrid)
There’s a big difference between preparing a file and actually understanding the business behind it.
This Senior Accountant opportunity gives you the chance to do both.
You’ll join an established, mid-sized CPA firm in St. Catharines, working across accounting, assurance and tax for a varied portfolio of privately owned businesses and organizations.
The firm works with corporations, owner-managed businesses, partnerships, start-ups, not-for-profits and high-net-worth individuals, giving you considerably more variety than simply working through the same type of engagement every week.
Why this role stands out:
- $80,000–$100,000 salary
- Hybrid working
- St. Catharines location
- Established mid-sized CPA firm
- Broad accounting, assurance and tax exposure
- Compilation and review engagements
- Audit exposure
- Owner-managed business clients
- Not-for-profit exposure
- Corporate and personal tax
- Direct client contact
- Opportunity to mentor junior staff
- Close access to Managers and Partners
- Broader business advisory exposure
- Clear progression toward Manager
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead compilation engagements from planning through completion
- Work across review and audit engagements
- Prepare working papers and financial statements
- Perform assurance procedures and resolve accounting issues
- Prepare year-end adjusting entries
- Prepare T2 corporate tax returns
- Prepare T1 personal tax returns
- Assist with other tax and information returns where required
- Work directly with owner-managed businesses and private companies
- Support not-for-profit engagements
- Communicate directly with clients throughout engagements
- Identify outstanding information and resolve file issues
- Assist clients with accounting and year-end questions
- Support Managers and Partners on more complex engagements
- Review and assist with the development of junior staff
- Gain exposure to planning and broader business advisory work
What they’re looking for:
- 3+ years of Canadian CPA firm/public accounting experience
- CPA designated or working toward completion
- Strong compilation engagement experience
- Review engagement exposure
- Audit experience would be an asset
- Experience preparing financial statements and working papers
- ASPE knowledge
- ASNPO exposure would be beneficial
- Corporate tax experience
- Personal tax experience
- Comfortable dealing directly with clients
- Experience helping or mentoring junior staff
- Strong communication skills
- CaseWare and Canadian tax software experience useful
- Previous Canadian CPA firm/public accounting experience required
If you’d like to know more about this position, just hit the apply button and I’ll be in touch.
If you’re only browsing the job boards and haven’t updated your resume yet, that’s not a problem. You can call me on 647 503 2624 or email [email protected].
Alternatively, search for Jamie Egglenton at Distinct North America on LinkedIn and send me a message.
If you’re unsure about applying because you don’t meet every requirement, I’d still encourage you to get in touch. We support the CPA firms we partner with in building diverse, inclusive and equitable workplaces, and even if this role isn’t the right fit, there may be another one that is.
