General Accountant

Job title: General Accountant

Job description: Job Description

ZSA Legal Recruitment is looking for an experienced General Accountant to join our team in Toronto immediately. The successful candidate will be responsible for a variety of tasks, including:

• Updating accounting scoreboards according to “Placement Invoice Request Forms” from sales department;
• Preparing sales invoices based on “Invoice Date” on the “Placement Invoice Request Forms” and send out to the clients after getting consultants’ approval; revising invoices as per consultants and clients’ requests;
• Handling placement fall throughs (issuing credits and refunds);
• Updating “Placement Fees” spreadsheets after the invoices have been sent out to the clients.
• Processing daily received client payments into accounting book;
• Preparing weekly AR Collection reports;
• Preparing weekly Client Payment report;
• Processing weekly temp payroll; creating temp invoices and send to clients and record temp payroll journal entries into the book;
• Calculating monthly COGS commission expenses, billing reports, and commission statements; monthly reconciliation of commission payable account;
• Preparing reports for various marketing events;
• Processing month-end head office distribution and inter-company transfers;
• Preparing P&L by office comparison report;
• Preparing monthly invoices to sub-tenants and apply payments in the book;
• Sharing the responsibilities for year end corporate tax filing by preparing documents and year-end adjustments;
• Various reports as needed.

The successful candidate will have a university degree or post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance, with at least 1-3 years minimum general accounting experience. You should have a strong technical knowledge of accounting principles and procedures and advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word), be highly organized and detail-oriented, and have strong analytical, problem and reconciliation skills. Knowledge or experience with QuickBooks Pro is also an asset.

ZSA provides a great environment for individuals who want to learn, grow and play a key role on a friendly team. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment yet can take initiative when the day-to-day slows down, we would like to talk to you about this opportunity!

Please send your resume to Tali Lewin, Director, Legal & HR at with subject heading ‘General Accountant’.

We thank all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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