Senior Cloud Accounting Specialist

Baker Tilly KDN LLP; Ontario; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly KDN LLP is seeking a Senior Cloud Accounting Specialist to deliver exceptional bookkeeping and advisory services. The role emphasizes interpersonal skills and a proactive attitude while offering career growth opportunities in a supportive and engaging environment.

Benefits

Flex time and banked/paid overtime

Vacation starting at 3 weeks per year

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Health and Wellness benefit

Training and support for professional development

Team building adventures

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum of 5 years of accounting experience.
• Advanced experience with cloud-based accounting is essential.
• Strong client and interpersonal skills are critical.

Responsibilities

• Engage in full-cycle bookkeeping in a cloud-based environment.
• Prepare payroll, reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Troubleshoot discrepancies and provide accounting support to clients.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bookkeeping diploma

Tools

Cloud-based accounting software

Job description

Baker Tilly KDN LLP (BT KDN) is hiring a Senior Cloud Accounting Specialist. At BT KDN, we ask our employees to think beyond the numbers. Exceptional customer service and true business understanding are required to advise our clients and help them plan for tomorrow. Embrace a role with opportunities for continued career growth, while making a difference for your clients, community and profession.

Why join the Baker Tilly KDN team?

In addition to top-notch assurance and tax guidance, BT KDN stands out by providing dynamic value-added expertise in a number of specific areas, including financial planning, valuation, cybersecurity, data analytics and our successful BT Advantage offering which focuses on customized accounting and CFO advisory solutions that allow our clients to focus on growing their business while leaving the financial reporting, advisory and analysis to our experts.

When you join our firm, you can expect:

• Flex time and banked/paid overtime program (say hello to summer Fridays off)
• Vacation starting at 3 weeks per year
• Competitive compensation and benefits package including comprehensive health, dental, group insuranceand RRSP matching program
• Health and Wellness benefit
• Our lunch rooms have a fully-stocked fridge with drinks as well as coffee and tea throughout the year - don't forget the snacks and fun during busy season
• A leadership team committed to your success
• Challenging and varied assignments
• Ongoing training and support for professional development
• Team building adventures (we've thrown axes, taken a rivercruise,played dodgeball and taken a team bus to a Jays game- just to name a few)
• A professional, fun and friendly working environment
  

What would you be doing?

The Senior Cloud Accounting Specialist engages in great interpersonal relations with clients and team members. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong initiative and a positive can-do attitude. We focus on delivering our exceptional services of full-cycle bookkeeping including accounts payable/receivable, financial reporting and payroll administration.

• Full-cycle bookkeeping in an integrated cloud-based environment from client supplied records
• Preparing payroll and related filings, reconciliations, HST returns, financial statements and reports
• Providing bookkeeping, accounting and software support services to clients
• Troubleshooting discrepancies, such as resolving issues when transactions are deleted or incorrectly posted
• Creating comprehensive documentation of bookkeeping processes
• Performing research, design and delivery of training of new cloud technologies to create efficiencies in existing practices
• Proactively following up with clients and build positive working environments
  
• Effectively responding to requests of queries, and keeping the ream apprised of any potential issues
• Participating in practice and professional development initiatives
• Mentoring, training, and developing junior staff
  
• Working closely with clients to identify and understand industry trends, key performance drivers, and emerging opportunities
  

Who is our ideal candidate?

• Graduation from a postsecondary institution – bookkeeping diploma considered an asset.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years of accounting experience with strong bookkeeping skills, preferably in public practice or for multiple clients.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and trouble shooting skills are essential.
• Advanced experience with cloud-based accounting software.
• Ability to change priorities quickly and easily, meet recurring deadlines and take ownership of assigned client work.
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn and develop.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential.
  
• Ability to work efficiently both independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong client and interpersonal skills - our clients mean the world to us.
• Approachable, supportive team player with a strong sense of urgency and a demonstrated history of achieving common goals.
  
  

About Baker Tilly KDN

Baker Tilly KDN LLP (BT KDN) is a full-service accounting firm providing assurance, tax and related business advisory services to a broad range of clientele from our offices in Peterborough, Lindsay, Courtice and Cobourg. With 18 partners and more than 130 employees, BT KDN is the largest locally owned and operated regional accounting firm in Central Ontario. We have strong community roots and believe in providing our clients with high quality, personalized service.

Interested applicants should apply by June 16, 2025 at 4 p.m.

*Baker Tilly KDN LLP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, political affiliation, parental status, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other non-merit factors. Baker Tilly KDN LLP is dedicated to fostering, supporting and celebrating a diverse workplace and is committed to a barrier-free recruitment experience. Please contact us [e-mail] if you require accommodation at any stage. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their accessibility needs.

Baker Tilly KDN LLP is a member of Baker Tilly Canada Cooperative, which is a member of the global network of Baker Tilly International Limited. All members of Baker Tilly Canada Cooperative and Baker Tilly International Limited are separate and independent legal entities.

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