Junior Accountant
- Oakville, ON, Canada
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Job details
- Experience
- Experience: 12 years of hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About the Opportunity
Our client, an established and growing company, is seeking a Junior Accountant to join their team. Reporting directly to senior accounting leadership, you will handle daily financial operations, reconciliations, AR/AP processing, and transactional reporting.
This is an ideal position for an early-career accountant eager to master foundational accounting operations, receive direct mentorship, and build toward long-term career advancement and internal promotion within the organization.
Key Responsibilities
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Daily Reconciliations: Perform daily reconciliations of all bank accounts, credit cards, and intercompany balances.
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General Ledger & Schedules: Prepare and post daily, weekly, and monthly journal entries for standard transactions; maintain prepayment and accrual schedules and post related amortization and reversals.
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AR & AP Operations: Process incoming customer payments and maintain up-to-date AR ageing reports; review and reconcile vendor invoices and statements and maintain up-to-date AP ageing reports.
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Recurring Account Tracking: Maintain and record recurring utility/facility bills for all sites and provide administrative support for creating accounts for new sites.
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Transactions & Documentation: Generate and issue customer quotes, customer invoices, and vendor purchase orders as required; review employee expense reports for reimbursement.
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Audit & Reporting Support: Assist the Finance and Operations team in compiling data and preparing ad-hoc reports; assist in gathering documentation for internal and external audits.
Qualifications & Skills
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Education: Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
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Experience: 1–2 years of hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience. Xero accounting software experience is an asset.
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Core Competencies:
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Strong appetite to learn, take ownership of day-to-day administrative tasks, and grow with the team
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Detail-oriented and accurate with basic debits, credits, and accruals
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Resourceful problem-solver with strong critical thinking skills
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Clear verbal and written communication skills for vendor and cross-functional interactions
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More about this job
Responsibilities
The Junior Accountant at Patch & Permasearch will reconcile bank accounts and balances every day, post journal entries, and keep receivables and payables up to date. They will also issue invoices and purchase orders, review expense reports, and help the finance team with reports and audit documents.
Requirements
Candidates need a bachelor's degree or diploma in accounting, finance or a related field, plus 1 to 2 years of hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience. Xero experience is an asset, along with attention to detail, eagerness to learn and clear communication.
Skills
- Bank reconciliation
- Intercompany reconciliation
- Journal entries
- General ledger
- Accruals and prepayments
- Amortization schedules
- Accounts receivable
- Accounts payable
- Ageing reports
- Invoicing
- Purchase orders
- Expense report review
- Xero
- Debits and credits
- Financial reporting
- Audit documentation
- Critical thinking
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Attention to detail
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Administrative
Keywords
- junior accountant
- accounting
- bookkeeping
- reconciliations
- accounts receivable
- accounts payable
- AR
- AP
- general ledger
- journal entries
- accruals
- amortization
- Xero
- audit support
- financial reporting
- month-end close
- invoicing
- purchase orders
- entry level accounting
- finance clerk
Seniority
Entry level
Tools
- Xero
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- Accounting
- Finance