Non-Profit Accountant | Impactful Financial Stewardship

RLB LLP; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended healthcare

RRSP plan

Life insurance

Employee assistance

Short-term disability

Travel insurance

Job summary

RLB People is assisting a well-established non-profit in the Kitchener area to hire a full-time Accountant to oversee day-to-day accounting, payroll, and charitable receipting. You will work independently in a small-office setting, ensuring accurate records, timely reporting, and compliance with CRA and HST requirements, while supporting budgeting and financial administration.

This role offers meaningful work, confidentiality, and the chance to contribute to community impact; onsite in Ontario

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in accounting, bookkeeping, payroll administration, or financial administration.
• Post-secondary education in accounting, bookkeeping, business administration, finance, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with financial recordkeeping, bank reconciliations, financial reporting, payment processing, and payroll administration.
• Working knowledge of Canadian payroll and regulatory requirements, including CRA remittances and year-end payroll reporting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, organization, and follow-through.
• Ability to work independently while keeping leaders and stakeholders informed.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication, able to explain financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Discretion handling confidential financial, donor, payroll, and organizational information.
• Non-profit, charitable, church, or faith-based experience is an asset.
• Experience with charitable receipting, CRA charity requirements, audit/year-end papers, accounting/payroll/donor software, or as sole accounting resource is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate financial records, including donations, receipts, deposits, bank transactions, and expenditures.
• Prepare bank reconciliations, journal entries, payments, and monthly financial statements for leadership review.
• Support financial analysis, reporting, and information-sharing to aid leadership decisions.
• Maintain donation records across multiple methods including cash, cheque, e-transfer, online, and pre-authorized giving.
• Issue official charitable receipts per CRA requirements.
• Administer electronic banking, vendor payments, payroll deposits, bill payments, and related documentation.
• Administer payroll including calculations, direct deposits, deductions, remittances, ROEs, and related records.
• Support benefits administration including enrollments, changes, terminations, and related docs.
• Prepare CRA remittances, HST filings, charity filings, WSIB reporting, and other government filings.
• Prepare working papers for annual audit or review.
• Coordinate annual budgeting process and budget-to-actual reporting.
• Suggest process improvements to strengthen accuracy and controls.
• Research and resolve financial issues.
• Serve as primary contact for internal/external financial and payroll inquiries.
• Provide additional administrative and operational support.

Skills

Accounting

Payroll administration

Financial recordkeeping

Bank reconciliations

Financial reporting

Payment processing

Canadian payroll regulations

Microsoft Office

Attention to detail

Independent work

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Discretion

Non-profit experience

Charitable receipting

Donor management software

Sole accounting resource

Education

Accounting education

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

RLB People is assisting a well-established non-profit in the Kitchener area to hire a full-time Accountant to oversee day-to-day accounting, payroll, and charitable receipting. You will work independently in a small-office setting, ensuring accurate records, timely reporting, and compliance with CRA and HST requirements, while supporting budgeting and financial administration.

This role offers meaningful work, confidentiality, and the chance to contribute to community impact; onsite in Ontario