Accountant

About Us 

We’re a business management solutions company dedicated to guiding and supporting small and midsized enterprises to peak business performance. Our Practice Areas include Finance, Cloud Accounting, Human Resources, and Executive Solutions. Essentially, we’re an all-star team of virtual back-office specialists. Our ranks include CFOs, Controllers, Accountants, and HR Consultants. 

We’re looking for an Accountant to join our Cloud Accounting Practice. In this role, you'll provide ongoing full-cycle accounting support to clients in a broad range of industries.  

Learn more about Business Sherpa Group. 

Location 

This is a remote position. 

Our Ideal Candidate 

As an ideal candidate, you can take complete ownership of the full accounting cycle for a range of clients, and communicate and collaborate effectively with peers, managers and executives. You know and appreciate QBO, and generally see the value in improving a business’ finance function through the adoption of new technology. You're a problem-solver who, like us, is passionate about doing things right and enabling our clients to make better business decisions.  

Here's what you'll do... 

While there is often no such thing as a ‘typical’ day, a day in the life of a cloud Accountant with BSG might include…  

• Manage the full-cycle accounting function for a small number of organizations, working closely with them to prioritize your work to meet their business needs. 

• Accurately record client invoices, employee expenses and supplier invoices, following up to collect payment and ensuring that supplier payments are made on time. 

• Reconcile bank and credit card statements and analyze balance sheet accounts on a regular basis. 

• Prepare quarterly government remittances for HST and EHT annual returns. 

• Manage payroll and benefits including all related remittances and reporting. 

• Prepare month and year-end working papers for assets, liabilities, revenue and expenditure accounts. 

• Solve accounting puzzles by researching and reconciling discrepancies and ensuring that the accounting is in good order. 

• Competently use software to provide virtual services such as QBO, HubDoc, Plooto, Dext and Excel. 

Here’s what you bring… 

• Experience in accounting, including AP/R, invoicing, collections, financial statement preparation and payroll. 

• Post-secondary education in Accounting / Finance.  

• A degree of comfort using multiple accounting packages, and the ability to learn new ones. 

• QBO knowledge and skills. 

• Exposure to Dext and Plooto is a major asset. 

• An autonomous and collaborative nature, with great interpersonal skills. 

• Outstanding client-service orientation. 

• Strong organizational abilities and high ethical standards. 

• Driven to do things right and take a constructive approach to solving problems. 

• Enthusiasm for what you do and the desire to help clients succeed. 

Business Sherpa Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristics protected by law.