Accounting Clerk
The Taggart Group
- Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Receive, sort, verify, stamp and code vendor invoices, ensuring all necessary approvals have been acquired and documented. Enter approved invoices into the accounting system.
- Liaise with the Development team regarding vendor invoices and payments to ensure job cost coding is accurate, and approvals are received.
- Process all stages of periodic cheque runs and electronic payments.
- Deposit and process incoming cash receipts.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations, and input journal entries, as necessary.
- Process and submit monthly HST filings, as calculated by the Project Accountants.
- Scan documents as required.
- Maintain all electronic and paper filing systems by ensuring all accounting documents are organized and saved appropriately and on a timely basis.
- Assist with rolling-forward annual spreadsheets and financial statement files by doing spreadsheet revisions and data entry.
- Other duties as required.
- Post-Secondary Education in Accounting or Finance is required.
- One to two years of relevant work experience in Accounting or Finance would be preferred.
- Strong ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Basic use of Excel is required.
- Experience using Adobe Acrobat would be considered an asset.
- Experience using an ERP system or other complex accounting system would be an asset.
- Providing service to several people, working under many simultaneous deadlines.
- Sitting or standing for long periods of time at workstation.
- Manual dexterity required to use desktop computer and peripherals.
- Repetitive work.
- Overtime may be required during peak times and/or based on project needs.