Staff Accountant

Vancouver Whitecaps FC; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Vancouver Whitecaps FC is seeking a Staff Accountant to coordinate daily finance and accounting operations. The role involves compliance oversight, financial reporting, budgeting support, and enhancing process improvements. Candidates should possess accounting qualifications and have a proven track record in finance, with excellent interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in full cycle accounting.
• Legally entitled to work in Canada.
• Self-motivated and able to engage with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily operations of finance and accounting.
• Assist in budgeting and forecasting.
• Supervise payments and reconcile revenue streams.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Time-Management Skills

Process Improvement

Education

Degree or Diploma in Accounting

Education towards a CPA designation

Tools

Sage Intacct

Job description

The Staff Accountant is responsible for coordinating all Finance and Accounting daily operations, ensuring compliance with company policies, applicable standards, and legislation. This includes financial reporting, banking, reconciliations, AP/AR processes, and assist with overseeing all aspects of the Club’s financial operations. The role will also involve supporting budgeting and forecasting, developing financial analysis, and leading process improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordination of Finance & Accounting Operations: Contribute to the oversight of daily operations of the Finance and Accounting department, including financial reporting, banking, reconciliations, provide backup when needed for AP/AR processes, ensuring adherence to company policies, procedures, and applicable regulations.
• Supervision of Payments to External and Internal Parties: Preparation and review of weekly accounts payable (AP) payments, including purchase order confirmation, valid contracts, and accuracy.
• Revenue Stream Reconciliation: Reconcile and track all revenue streams, including ticketing, soccer development, licensed merchandise, and sponsor partnerships, ensuring the accurate reflection of all financial transactions.
• Budgeting & Forecasting Support: Assist as needed in the development of the annual budget and provide ongoing support with forecast updates. Identify variances and work with the Manager, Finance and CFO to implement corrective actions as needed.
• Period-End Financial Statements & Reporting: Collaborate with the Manager, Finance to prepare period-end financial statements and ad-hoc reporting packages, ensuring accurate financial reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Data Analytics & Process Improvement: Utilize data analytics to monitor financial performance, streamline processes, and identify cost efficiencies. Develop and implement financial benchmarks to assess the effectiveness of services and operations.
• Financial Decision Support & Analysis: Provide support for financial decision-making through requested financial reports, and business analysis.
• Process Standardization & Automation: Lead efforts to standardize and automate financial processes, improving the accuracy, efficiency, and ease of reporting functions across the department.
• Currency Account Reconciliation: Oversee the reconciliation of both Canadian and U.S. Dollar bank accounts, ensuring accurate reporting and currency management.
• Sponsorship Accounting & Value-in-Kind Settlements: Manage the accounting and settlement of sponsorship contracts, ensuring proper recognition of sponsorship revenues in financial records.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Audit Preparation: Reconcile balance sheet accounts and assist in preparing documentation for external audits and reviews, ensuring compliance with financial reporting standards.
• Regulatory Compliance & Tax Filings: Ensure the timely preparation and submission of regulatory filings, including GST, PST, and withholding tax remittances.
• Additional Duties: Perform other related duties as required to support the Finance department and ensure the effective management of financial operations.

Requirements

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
• 2-3 years experience in full cycle accounting
• Degree or Diploma in accounting; education towards a CPA designation is beneficial
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication, and time-management skills.
• Experience with Sage Intacct preferred.
• Self-motivated with a proven ability to engage with a range of internal and external partners to achieve objectives
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team and maintain a positive and proactive attitude in fast-paced environments.

The Club

Vancouver Whitecaps FC is the longest-running professional soccer club in Canada and the United States. Since its inaugural season in 1974, the club has united generations of loyal fans in British Columbia and beyond. With academies in eight out of ten provinces, a network of partner clubs, and hundreds of camps and clinics every year, Whitecaps FC provide a foundation for Canada’s soccer future.

We are also strongly committed to providing opportunities to Canadian athletes, both male and female, with the largest soccer development structure in Canada. This includes academy programs in eight of ten provinces across the country.

In addition to building a winning team on and off the pitch, the Club places great importance in giving back to our community, harnessing the power of sport to create a stronger, more equitable & inclusive society through three key community goals: helping meet critical needs, using soccer to build life skills and creating soccer participation opportunities in Indigenous communities.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. This includes but is not limited to people of colour, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Should you require any accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact our People & Culture department.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

No recruiters or agencies, please.

"Within these walls, you are welcomed, accepted, and respected.

Here, no matter who you are or where you come from, you are home. And you’re part of the team regardless of your age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, marital or family status, disability, or religious belief or non-belief. All we ask is that you be ethical and inclusive in all that you do. Be respectful of all players, fans, and staff, and remember to cheer loudest for the ones wearing the blue and white. Go ‘Caps!"