Manager, Assurance

Grant Thornton; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading professional services firm as a Manager in Assurance, where you'll lead audits and provide solutions to clients in various sectors. With a focus on community and personal growth, the ideal candidate will have a CPA designation and experience in managing teams and developing businesses, all while benefiting from a culture of flexibility and collaboration.

Benefits

Profit sharing

Flex days

RRSP contributions

Firmwide holiday closure

Wellness benefits

Concierge-like benefits

Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks

Qualifications

• Experience in audits and owner-managed private businesses.
• Strong business development success.
• Demonstrated ability to exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Leading audits, review engagements, and compilations.
• Analyzing corporate and personal income tax returns.
• Coaching and managing junior team members.

Skills

Team Management

Business Development

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Education

CPA designation

Job description

Who we are
You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

As a Manager, Assurance your responsibilities will include:
• Leading and executing a wide range of audits, review engagements and compilations engagements for large to mid-sized owner managed businesses, over a variety of business sectors.Experience with ASPE and ASNPO frameworks is an asset.
• Analysis and review of corporate and personal income tax returns, compilation and review engagements
• Provide solutions to our clients for accounting matters and work with them for growth in current business and financial conditions
• Contributing to new business development by understanding Doane Grant Thornton and its service lines, as well as utilizing your credibility with clients
• Planning and leading teams, ensuring that client expectations are clearly communicated
• Participating in the coaching and performance management process of the practice by conducting timely performance reviews, providing ongoing feedback and training to develop junior team members
• Maximizing engagement profitability by effectively utilizing engagement resources

Doane Grant Thornton
If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Doane Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens!

Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Manager, Assurance? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
• CPA designation (or equivalent)
• Experience working with owner managed private business clients within a public practice scope
• Agriculture experience would be considered an asset
• Demonstrated success in business development, advisory and team management
• A team player able to rally resources and work with others to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of the client. You'll work with teammates in strategy, tax, financial modelling and more
• Excellent written, and verbal communication skills, including exceptional interpersonal skills to earn the trust and confidence of clients and colleagues
• Experience with scheduling, organizing, supervising and multi-team managing is an asset
• Self-motivated, results-oriented multi-tasker who works equally well independently and collaboratively with a desire to grow
• Strong interest in coaching and development, with a commitment to personal growth
• Demonstrated ability to meet the professional and competency expectations of the position

Note: Our ideal candidate has experience in both audit and privately held business. Candidates that are not audit focused are still encouraged to apply. Those with a mix of compilation, review, personal and corporate tax experience are still views as strong candidates.

At Doane Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.

What's in it for you?

Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more!

Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?