Accountant

Swainson Alexander LLP; Red Deer; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A chartered professional accounting firm in Red Deer is looking for a diligent staff accountant to work directly with clients. This full-time position involves tax preparation and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Ideal candidates will have experience in bookkeeping and full-cycle accounting, with proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The firm offers competitive pay, overtime opportunities, and various benefits.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary

Paid overtime

Paid group health and dental benefits

Paid parking

Bonus opportunities

Paid CPA dues

Extra time off at Christmas

Vacation time based on current level

Qualifications

• Experience in bookkeeping or full-cycle accounting.
• Experience in the preparation of financial statements and tax returns.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Be involved in year-end working papers, financials, and tax returns.
• Ensure compliance with corporate and personal tax, payroll, and GST.
• Perform necessary tax preparation and filing.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Full-cycle accounting

Communication

Microsoft Excel

Education

CPA designation or working towards

Tools

I-Firm

Caseware

Jazz-it

Taxprep

Job description

We’re Swainson Alexander LLP Chartered Professional Accountants (), and we’re looking for an accountant, who knows and enjoys the challenges of public practice. If you are someone who takes initiative, enjoys working with numbers and people, and knows at the end of the day they want a quiet, stable work culture that rewards hard work, we should talk. Staff Accountant As our newest staff accountant, your aim is to work directly with our clients. If you love variety and challenge, this could be a great fit for you. You’re conscientious, take great pride in your work, and embrace variety and multi-tasking – you’re flexible and adaptable, able to change with the flow of the business and transition smoothly between many tasks.

Responsibilities

• Be involved in year-end working papers, financials and tax returns via Caseware, Jazz-it, I-Firm and Taxprep.
• Ensure compliance with corporate and personal tax, payroll and GST.
• Perform all necessary tax preparation and filing, and maintain a deep understanding of tax requirements.
• Actively engage our clients to ensure their corporate or personal accounting, tax and business acumen gets the attention it deserves.
• Assist our team by sharing your knowledge and experience.
• Provide your opinion on technological and organizational improvements.

This is a full-time position, here in our office, in Red Deer. Our standard work week is 35 hours, Monday to Friday, and as can be expected in public practice, overtime from February to April. We offer a competitive starting salary, with paid overtime, paid group health and dental benefits, paid parking, bonus opportunities, paid CPA dues and study leave and extra time off at Christmas and vacation time based on your current level. This is a tremendous opportunity for someone who is looking to start or build on a public practice career with a stable and successful firm. We’re not interested in making a short-term hire – we want someone who will be committed to a long-term role, and putting down roots in Red Deer.

Qualifications

• Experience in bookkeeping or full-cycle accounting.
• Experience in the preparation of financial statements, and tax returns.
• I-Firm, Caseware, Jazz‑it, or Taxprep experience is an asset.
• You understand that as a small team we all do what we can to help our clients and each other at work.
• You can communicate well, know the difference between a job and a career, you are respectful, loyal, and confident things work out because of who you are.
• Excellent Microsoft Office and especially Microsoft Excel skills.
• CPA designation or working towards.

Apply today. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply. If we can make this easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, we offer after hour or weekend interviews or off site interview locations, please let us know. We will review applications as they are received and look forward to hearing from you. On a practical note, only those selected for interview will be contacted.