Assistant Controller – Client Success
Posted 23hrs ago
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Job Description
Assistant Virtual Controller providing controller support to charities and non-profits while ensuring regulatory compliance. Building client relationships and overseeing accounting support teams remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Provides controller support and ensures regulatory compliance and the accuracy and completeness of all financial information and reporting
- Supports clients with budgeting, financial forecasting, cashflow and the coordination of audit activities
- Develops positive and productive relationships with clients, ensuring service quality exceeds expectations
- Oversees a client’s daily accounting operations and ensures accurate, complete, and high-quality financial reporting
- Acts as a trusted advisor and is constantly seeking to deliver the highest level of client satisfaction
- Coordinates, plans and implements in scope work so that the work of the finance team aligns to organizational timelines, goals or deliverables
- Works closely with a team of accountants and bookkeepers, overseeing their work and providing coaching, training, and mentorship
Requirements:
- CPA designation
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience as a CPA working in industry or public accounting firms
- Experience with managing and delivery of projects
- Experience with supporting and/or leading change
- Experience with gathering, presenting, and reporting financial information, analysis, insights, recommendations to stakeholders across different levels
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills with an attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to professionally connect with and influence a diverse group of individuals
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead projects and work with diverse individuals to identify issues, design solutions, and evaluate results
- Experience with supporting new client onboarding
- Accounting knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- o Bookkeeping, accounting, and financial services implementation
- o Regulatory compliance
- o Financial analysis and reporting
- o Reconciliation and analysis
- o Budgeting, planning, and reporting
- o Forecasting and reporting
- o Financial policy development, interpretation, and application
- o Financial risk management, including fraud detection and control
- o Organizational performance analysis
- o Payroll processing
- o Financial governance and implementation of financial controls
- o Grants and contract management (as it relates to compliance and reporting)
Benefits:
- health and dental benefits from the first day of employment
- RRSP matching program
- paid volunteering time
- annual professional development allowance
- three weeks’ annual vacation plus additional paid time off



















