Accounts & Ledger Clerk — Month-End & Invoicing

City of Kingston; Kingston; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Kingston is seeking an Accounting Clerk to support the Financial Services department in preparing and processing financial transactions to the general ledger and ensuring files are complete within the corporate financial system.

The role involves liaising with internal and external customers to provide customer-focused service and to reflect the City’s values. You will perform journals, month-end reconciliations, and general ledger monitoring as part of a collaborative accounting team.

Responsibilities

• Prepare journals, adjust entries, process accruals for posting into the corporate financial system and conduct follow up
• Prepare and reconcile month and year end working papers for audit, including bank statements
• Reconcile non-sufficient funds cheques
• Conduct final review of year end cash flow adjustments
• Monitor and analyze all General Ledger accounts
• Liaise with internal and external customers for accounting related purposes and documents including deposit summaries and invoices
• Enter invoices, process and distribute payments to vendors
• Process customer invoices, revenue collection and record cash receipts
• Respond to general accounting enquiries
• Additional duties may be assigned as determined by workload of the accounting team

Job description

City of Kingston is seeking an Accounting Clerk to support the Financial Services department in preparing and processing financial transactions to the general ledger and ensuring files are complete within the corporate financial system.

The role involves liaising with internal and external customers to provide customer-focused service and to reflect the City’s values. You will perform journals, month-end reconciliations, and general ledger monitoring as part of a collaborative accounting team.