Accounting Advisor

Vaco by Highspring; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring client, a leading accounting professional services firm, seeks a Principal Advisor to interpret accounting standards and provide ethics guidance across Canadian practice areas.

The role involves liaising with committees, developing advisory guidance and training programs, and coordinating policy-related projects. Requires CPA with 8+ years post-qualification experience and strong knowledge of Canadian standards; GTA residency and Canadian work eligibility required.

Qualifications

• CPA member in good standing with a minimum of 8 years post-qualification experience and a strong working knowledge of Canadian accounting and assurance standards, CPA Ontario’s Handbook (Bylaws, Regulations, and CPA Code of Professional Conduct).

Responsibilities

• Interpret accounting and assurance standards and CPA Code of Professional Conduct to address technical, regulatory, ethical, and practice management questions.
• Liaise with provincial, national, and interprovincial committees and coordinate projects; provide feedback on technical and ethical matters.
• Develop and review advisory guidance, articles, webpages, and policy papers; draft company publications.
• Communicate members' concerns to the Small Medium Practices Advisory Committee and conduct member outreach.
• Coordinate consultations to obtain feedback on proposed standards changes and prepare feedback on exposure drafts.
• Develop and deliver training programs and webinars; lead panel discussions on professional standards and practices.
• Provide insights on technical standards to regulatory functions and Business Units; perform technical reviews of publications.

Education

CPA (CPA Ontario)

Job description

Our client is an accounting professional services firm. They are looking for a Principal Advisor to join their team!

Why Work Here

• Flexible work environments. The client provides flexible, remote work options to support you in your career, in addition to in-office teamwork and collaboration.
• Ongoing learning and career growth. The client supports unlimited career advancement and professional development opportunities with learning investments to promote your future growth.
• Industry leading benefits and wellness programs

About the Opportunity

• Interpreting the application of accounting and assurance standards, the company’s Bylaws, Regulations, and the CPA Code of Professional Conduct to respond to members’ technical, regulatory, ethical, and practice management questions as well as students’ and the general public’s ethics-related matters.
• Liaising and assisting with various provincial and national and interprovincial committees as well as providing feedback on technical, ethical and practice matters/issues in addition to assisting with and/or coordinating projects.
• Developing and reviewing advisory-related guidance and support materials and tools including articles, webpages, company-specific publications as well as drafting policy papers.
• Communicating members’ concerns with the company’s Small Medium Practices Advisory Committee as well as conducting member outreach to raise the awareness of Professional Advisory Services.
• Coordinating consultation events to obtain feedback on proposed national and international accounting, assurance and ethics standards changes and preparing and providing feedback on exposure drafts.
• Participation in the development and delivery of training programs and webinars, coordinate and lead panel discussions on professional standards and practices.
• Providing insight on the technical professional standards to other regulatory functions and Business Units.
• Performing technical reviews of certain publications developed by the profession.
• Attending professional courses and other events to keep up to date with professional, standards laws, and regulations.

About You

• A CPA member in good standing with a minimum of 8 years post-qualification experience combined with a strong working knowledge of Canadian accounting and assurance and related standards, CPA Ontario’s Member’s Handbook (Bylaws, Regulations, and CPA Code of Professional Conduct), as well as the proven ability to assess situations and determine compliance or non-compliance.

You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity.