Senior Bookkeeper Jobs

About Us:Columbia Bookkeeping is focused on providing quality bookkeeping and payroll services to our clients all over Canada. We offer full-cycle bookkeeping and payroll services to business clients, along with monthly reporting and statutory filings. We believe in a good work-life balance, offering flexible schedules, a remote work environment, a health spending account, RRSP matching and more.

About the Role:Columbia Bookkeeping is seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual to join the team that shares our values in community, accountability, sustainability, and integrity. As a Senior Bookkeeper, your job will be to provide exceptional services to our clients in their regular bookkeeping and payroll needs, you will be responsible for setting up new accounts and will be the first point of contact for questions and communications utilizing todays top cloud-based systems to deliver on your work. Another key aspect of this role will be to provide support to other staff bookkeepers, helping them with complicated client tasks, cleaning up files, identifying discrepancies, advising on how to fix any issues other staff may be having and supporting with final year-end reviews. The position has lots of potential for growth and development as the company grows, offering a fulfilling career in the field of accounting and business management. Some of the benefits of this position include: a work from home environment or office space available for candidates located in Revelstoke BC, a flexible schedule, health spending account fully covered by the company, tuition reimbursements, paid flex days, RRSP matching, above standard vacation time, bonuses, and more.

The roles and responsibilities include:

1. Communicate with clients, handle inquiries, and provide exceptional solutions to client’s needs

2. Perform regular bookkeeping duties to keep client accounts up to date, including; transaction data entry, account reconciliations, manage subledgers, project accounting, inventory valuations, reporting and more

3. Manage deadlines and ensure your own and other staff work is being completed on time

4. Perform regular payroll duties including; prepare and issue payroll according to clients timesheets, manage the addition, termination and any changes to employee information, handle inquiries from the client and/or their staff, any other reasonable payroll requirements.

5. Prepare any remittances and filings on behalf of clients, including; GST, PST, Payroll remittances, WorkSafe/WCB remittances, ROE’s, T4’s, T5018’s and more

6. Answer phone lines, set client meetings, takes notes, and record actionable items and manage tasks in our CRM system

7. Support and help train other bookkeeping staff with their client files, statutory filings, CRM use, use of other software tools available to them, and more.

8. Review year-end files prepared by other staff before sending off to the clients accountant for tax filings

9. Setup and maintain CRM processes

10. General company admin work related to role

11. Create and manage SOP’s for each client

12. Help to develop policy and procedure documentation for staff to use

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following:

1. Minimum 5 years of full-time bookkeeping and payroll experience, preferably using QuickBooks Online

2. Advanced accounting education

3. Advanced QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification

4. 2 years QuickBooks Desktop experience

5. Previous experience with TaxDome

6. Certified Professional Bookkeeper credentials

7. Great communication skills for both internal and external communications

8. Devoted to supporting our clients success, working closely with business owners as part of their team

9. Devoted to supporting a successful team, helping train and coach other staff to grow in their positions.

10. Great understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, small business accounting procedures and Canadian tax legislation.

11. Great knowledge of British Columbia legislation related to PST, WSBC, EHT and more.

12. Self-motivated and innovative with a drive to work in the accounting field

13. Ambitious for continuing education and knowledge growth

14. A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office apps

In order to apply for this role, please use the following process:

Reply to this ad with your resume and a cover letter. Within the cover letter you must answer the following question: if you could work remotely from anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Upon review of resumes, selected candidates will be contacted for interviews