Location: Ottawa, ON • Category: Full-time Permanent • Job Type: Hybrid
• Salary: $110,000-$120,000
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Manager to help lead our Ottawa Tech Team. If you have a passion for public accounting and a goal to one day reach partnership, we want to connect!
This role is to fill an existing vacancy.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage the accounting, audit and tax service needs of a portfolio of clients across a range of industry sectors
- Identify new business opportunities and actively participate in business development
- Manage the engagement process from initial scheduling, planning and work delegation through to client review and financial statement sign off
- Effectively manage a team of Staff Accountants, Senior Staff Accountants and Managers
- Review work and provide meaningful feedback on each engagement
- Conduct timely performance reviews and provide performance feedback and coaching
- Meet with clients regarding financial statements, other business matters and engagement issues
- Provide journal entry and account reconciliation guidance to clients
- Support of personal and corporate tax filing for many of these clients
- Discuss proposed time budgets with partners and assign engagement budgets to staff
- Manage the WIP and Accounts Receivable
Qualifications
- Completion of all requirements to obtain CPA designation
- Minimum of 7 years of experience with 4 of those years as a manager in a Public Accounting Firm
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and good team player
- Excellent client/customer service skills
- Able to effectively plan and organize work
- Ability to adopt and deploy new technology and solutions to streamline work and create efficiencies
- Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple assignments
- Strong knowledge of MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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