Intermediate Accountant

About the Opportunity

Accounting & Transaction Execution

• Take ownership of day-to-day accounting activities, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit cards, intercompany transactions, banking, and treasury related activities.
• Prepare, review, and record journal entries, including accruals, adjustments, allocations, and other complex accounting transactions.
• Maintain accurate and complete financial records, ensuring transactions are properly classified, supported, and recorded on a timely basis.
• Perform regular reconciliations of bank accounts, assist other staff with credit cards and intercompany reconciliations, maintain general ledger accounts and other financial records.
• Identify and resolve accounting discrepancies, outstanding balances, and reconciliation issues proactively.
• Support effective cash management by posting receipts and payments, monitoring cash balances, and short-term liquidity needs.
• Financial Reporting & Period End Close
• Take responsibility for month end and year end processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely execution.
• Assist in preparing financial statements, supporting schedules, and internal management reports.
• Assist in maintaining and reviewing general ledger balances, reconciliations, accruals, and adjusting entries to ensure financial information is accurate and reliable.
• Investigate unusual transactions, account fluctuations, and reporting discrepancies, recommending fixes where required.
• Support the preparation of financial information and documentation required for external accountants, annual reviews, and tax filings.
• Maintain organized working papers and supporting documentation.
• Project Accounting & Job Cost Management
• Track, reconcile, and report on project costs, including labour, materials, subcontractors, and other project expenditures.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to ensure costs are accurately allocated to the appropriate projects and cost categories.
• Prepare and review project related accruals, adjustments, and other accounting entries.
• Support project managers as they prepare project budgets, cost reports, and profitability assessments.
• Identify discrepancies, unrecorded costs, and potential reporting issues.
• Provide timely and accurate financial information to support ad hoc project work, as requested.

Cash Flow & Financial Analysis

• Assist with the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Investigate significant variances and provide explanations and recommendations to management.
• Prepare and maintain cash flow tracking tools to support financial planning.
• Support management with financial analysis and information required for business decisions.

Systems, Controls & Process Improvement

• Support the implementation, integration, and ongoing improvement of accounting and business management systems.
• Assist with system adoption, application integration, and reconciliation of information across platforms.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting workflows, reporting accuracy, efficiency.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with company policies, established procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Proactively identify recurring issues, process gaps, and opportunities for automation or improved reporting.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with Project Managers, operations teams, and management to ensure accurate and timely financial information.
• Communicate accounting requirements, outstanding items, and reporting deadlines clearly and professionally.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, accountants, and others as required.
• Manage multiple responsibilities and competing deadlines while maintaining accuracy, accountability, and responsiveness.

About You

• Postsecondary education in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active progress toward obtaining a CPA designation preferred.
• 2–5 years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on involvement in various aspects of accounting, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, and month end closing processes.
• Experience with project and job accounting, or construction related financial reporting an asset.

Technical & Accounting Skills

• Strong understanding of accounting principles, reconciliations, accruals, and general ledger.
• Proficiency with accounting software and ERP systems (e.g., QuickBooks, SAP Business One, Sage, Stripe, Procore, or similar applications).
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, financial analysis, data reconciliation, and reporting.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and other business productivity applications.
• Ability to prepare financial statements, analyze financial results, support forecasting, and perform transactional accounting

Salary Range

$80,000 - $90,000/year

How to Apply

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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring's client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client's requirements for this role.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting.

The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring's discussions with its Client, Highspring's understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.