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Small non-profit association seeking a part-time bookkeeper two days per month, plus additional time periodically for project work.
Responsibilities will involve completing full accounting cycle, including:
All journal entries
Payables
Receivables
Payroll
Bank Deposits
Government remittances (Source Deductions, Quarterly GST)
Bank Reconciliations
Retail Merchant Account Reconciliations
Generating monthly Balance Sheet and Income Statements for management reports
Examples of project work may include such things as transferring to a different accounting software, cleaning up historical transactions, and interfacing with the associations website.
The books are for the most part are up-to-date. The reason we require someone to join our team is simply that the number of journal entries has grown significantly over the past several years and we need a specialist to address them.
To start we require someone to work on-site while becoming familiar with our system, but there will be flexibility to work off-site once knowledge transfer is complete.
This position would be ideally suited for a stay-at-home mother or someone recently retired from a full-time bookkeeping position who wants to keep their hand in the game, or an accounting student close to graduation.
Essential Skills
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Public transportation is available
Specific Skills
- Reconcile accounts
- Post journal entries
- Maintain general ledgers and financial statements
- Calculate and prepare cheques for payroll
- Prepare other statistical, financial and accounting reports
Work Setting
- Not-for-profit organization
Work Location Information
- Work from home
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
Type of Bookkeeping
- Computerized
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Windows
- Word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
- Excel
- Electronic mail
- Electronic scheduler
- Accounting software
- Internet browser
- Quick Books
- Simply Accounting