Accounting Manager

Dog and Pony Studios; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Dog and Pony Studios, a hybrid creative and digital agency, is looking for an Accounting Manager to oversee all aspects of transactional finance. This role involves providing insight into financial operations, managing payables and receivables, and collaborating with various teams to ensure accurate billing and reporting.

Benefits

Paid Sick Leave

3 weeks annual paid vacation

100% coverage benefits package

Structured Career Plan

Global Team Opportunities

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in a similar role in a service-based business.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Excellent time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile accounting system account balances daily.
• Manage all aspects of accounts payable and receivable.
• Lead and support incentive and payroll processes.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Time Management

Communication

Proactivity

Education

CPA designation (preferred or in progress)

Tools

Quickbooks

Google Drive

Job description

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Dog and Pony Studios is an integrated creative and digital agency for B2B brands. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we are a hybrid agency with remote teams located across Canada, South America and Europe. For 25+ years, our teams have worked at the cutting edge of technology and design, collaborating with some of the highest-impact organizations globally.

We’re seeking an Accounting Manager to fuel the accurate, real-time view of the company’s financial position by taking on all aspects of transactional finance for the company, as well as provide insight and assistance with specific requests, reports or data. As the Accounting Managerat Dog and Pony Studios, you are the go-to resource for bookkeeping, receivables and payables, and ensuring all revenue and cost items are properly related to enable a complete view of our financial results – whether project-by-project, client-by-client, or as a whole. You assist in providing reports and operational support for key administration areas of the company including Operations, Human Resources and the Creative and Digital divisions. And you do all of this with a can-do, collegial attitude that is the hallmark of every team member at Dog and Pony Studios.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning the Numbers: Reconcile accounting system account balances against supporting documentation, including maintenance of sub-ledger data for key balance sheet accounts. We want to-the-penny accuracy, daily.
• Keeping the Inflows Flowing: Timely and accurate invoicing of all DPS projects, with tracking and collection activities, as needed.
• Managing Outflows: Accurately capture all payables and expenses and manage payment dates to maximize the DPS cash position, while keeping our trusted suppliers and partners happy and informed. You’ll set up payments for executive approval.
• Pay the team: Lead and support incentive and payroll processes for the DPS team, including Canadian employees, members of our global team and freelancers. You’re ensuring it’s on time and exactly correct.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the creative and digital teams to capture billing for all projects. This includes ensuring out-of-pocket costs and scope changes are captured and properly invoiced
• Generate all project invoices in the accounting system, including draft invoices for multiple-stage/billing projects
• Manage collection processes proactively by working with clients to minimize the aging of the Accounts Receivable file
• Manage all aspects of accounts payable for DPS, including validating supplier invoices against approved budgets or contracts, managing bill input through the accounting system workflow, and making weekly payment summaries for the management to execute
• Prepare payments for management approval in various banking and cash management platforms
• Download relevant statements and transaction files, as needed
• Identify pending expenses and create draft bills to ensure reports and dashboards reflect accurate P&L projections, upcoming cash requirements and more
• Manage all aspects of payroll for Canadian and global team members
• Reconcile activity for all client retainers, providing reports as needed
• Journal timely draw-downs of deferred revenue as projects execute
• Demonstrate proof of monthly account reconciliation
• Maintain all necessary financial records in Google Drive, Dext and Quickbooks (such as receipts, financial statements, etc.)
• Calculate, file, and respond to any enquiries regarding all mandatory taxes, including HST, corporate income, and any other taxes

Who you are

Smart, Fast, Focused

• You are a strategic thinker with a passion for breathing life into numbers through analysis and review. You are an exceptional communicator and ask the right questions to get to the heart of the business needs and financial issues at hand. You offer strategic counsel and guidance by interpreting what the numbers mean in the context of Dog and Pony’s work and processes, and are always looking for ways to add value.
• You understand the importance of taking a proactive approach at all times and bring significant experience to financials.
• You seek to raise the bar in any situation and are excited to grow professionally alongside a high-performing team, lead by best-in-the-industry executives. You apply consistently high standards and never settle for anything less than exactitude.
• You get things done. You have a track record of success in bookkeeping and financial management.
• You have excellent time management skills. You are dependable, conscientious, keen, and reliable. You can juggle and prioritize, meet challenging deadlines, and find solutions.
• You have a desire to grow and develop our business as well as grow personally within the role, challenge the status quo, and be part of developing creative approaches and solutions to both finance’s needs and our internal team’s processes.
• You have a positive/collegial attitude internally and present yourself professionally at all times. You are diplomatic and are unfazed by unexpected issues, evolving scope or schedule priorities. You prefer to solve problems rather than dwell on them.
• You embrace our Dog and Pony Studios values and contribute to a culture of excellence.

Requirements:

• Three years of experience in a similar role in a service-based business
• CPA designation preferred or in progress
• Experience with full-cycle accounting, year-end close and reconciliations
• Be highly organized and detail-oriented, ensuring financial inputs are accurate and maintained in a timely manner
• Switch between different tasks and priorities quickly, as required
• Continually seek areas for process improvements and bring them forward to your management for review and possible implementation
• Maintain a positive and collegial attitude and professional demeanour, internally and externally
• Diplomatically handle issues, respect DPS and client confidentiality, and adhere to our DPS values

What we offer:

• Global Team: We hire the best professionals from all over the world. Be part of a highly motivated, multidisciplinary team working on world-class creative.
• Global Clients: Work on interesting and complex projects for some of the biggest companies in the world.
• No Diva Policy: This is a friendly, collegial, client-centric team focused on delivering world-class products.
• Hybrid Office: We’re a hybrid remote agency, and have been since 2008. If you’re in Toronto, we frequently work from our headquarters. You’ll meet your global teammates face-to-face a few times a year when we bring people together.
• Structured Career Plan: We recognize great work and reward you accordingly. We provide a structured career path with regular evaluation-based promotions.
• Paid Vacation: 3 weeks annual paid vacation + annual wellness time off through Christmas and New Year.
• Paid Benefits: 100% coverage, without co-pay, with our benefits package.
• Paid Sick Leave: Generous yearly allowance for paid sick days.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Marketing Services and Advertising Services

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