General Accountant

Job title: General Accountant

Job description: Accountabilities:
1)Banking System Reconciliation

• Perform daily reconciliation of clearing accounts to ensure that banking system is booked correctly by Operations and liaise with respective team members, Operations and our partner, RBC and Central 1 to investigate the unreconciled items and handle the variances on a timely manner …

• Reconcile daily cash transaction activities in Royal Bank of Canada and Central 1 Cash Accounts and Clearing Accounts including but not limit to term deposits, demand deposits, cheque accounts, residential and commercial mortgages, returned items…etc.
• Manage the accounting for general leger accounts, including preparation of monthly reconciliation reports, appropriate journal entries and accompanying worksheet and narratives
• Provide GLs control and oversight based on daily Trial Balance from general ledger and sub-ledger to ensure accurate journal entries and system postings and mitigate errors

2)Other Accounting Functions:

• Review and manage Accounts Payable batches for corporate vendors, deposit, and mortgage brokers and employees’ expense reports to ensure timely and accurate payment processing and batch posting
• Manage ACH Payments, Wire Payments, Account Transfers for deposits, mortgage funding, corporate’s payments and liaise with Cash Management Managers from Royal Bank of Canada and Central 1 when needed for all settlements, unreconciled transactions and returned transactions
• Prepare audit trail and necessary working papers for year-end audit. Maintains accurate and complete records for audits. Gathers audit support data upon request.
• Ensures financial compliance with all financial and accounting rules of the organisation
• Prepare daily data based on daily trial balance, securities portfolio and credit tracking and portfolio investment for balance sheet and treasury management purposes
• Gather relevant data from respective business units and document business requirements.
• Use reporting tools to build and develop reports for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting for management and senior-level executives.
• To perform ad-hoc analysis and special reports as required

Advantages
100% work from home
Work life balance – the volume/transactions is not high
Generous compensation

Responsibilities
The focus is more on bank reconciliations and to assist with month-end.

Also, to assist with reporting.

Qualifications

• University degree or post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance
• Accounting designation (CPA) or enrolled in CPA program
• Strong technical knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Advance knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point).
• Must be highly organized and a detail-oriented
• Strong analytical, problem and reconciliation skills
• Business and financial acumen

Summary
Reporting to the Director, Finance, the General Accountant manages day-to-day accounting functions, accounting analysis and financial reporting duties in respect of all financial transactions within the banking system, while ensuring accounting processes are managed in an efficient and timely manner.

Randstad Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce reflective of the diversity of Canada. As a result, we promote employment equity and encourage candidates, especially those who identify as a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group, and any others who may contribute to the diversification of our workforce, to apply.

Randstad Canada is also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments.If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, you should advise your Randstad Representative or your local Randstad branch in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner.Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

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