Senior Accounting Manager

Company description

Hi, we’re Rooks, a Vancouver-based bookkeeping firm looking to reshape the way bookkeepers and businesses come together! As a forward-thinking company, our job is to provide businesses with an automated, paperless, and fully digital bookkeeping experience. By leveraging cloud apps and modern integrative workflows, we’re able to deliver a seamless digital experience that gets rid of paper and the redundant processes plaguing a centuries old industry.

The role

We’re currently looking to hire a Senior Accounting Manager to join our team in a remote working environment. As a senior accounting manager, your responsibility is to oversee and ensure the highest quality of work and service is delivered to our clients by our team of associates. This position is multifaceted and includes duties such as reviewing and performing independent checks to ensure that the monthly financial statements delivered to our clients are accurate and comply with GAAP, streamlining our internal processes and creating SOPs (standard operating procedures) for new associates to be onboarded quickly, performing discovery calls with new leads and completing catch-up and onboarding of new clients, as well as everything in between! This role is suited for a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ individual as you will be expected to be able to assist wherever necessary.

Our requirements in a nutshell:

• Reviewing and performing independent monthly checks on the state of the books for each of our clients
• Work with our onboarding team to define and evolve our onboarding processes and workflows as well as take discovery calls with new leads and perform catch-up and onboarding of new clients
• Standardizing and streamlining our internal workflows for our associates so that we can turnaround delivery time as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality
• Creating SOPs to document all of our work processes so that new associates can be onboarded quickly
• Training our current/new associates and being the point of contact for any assistance they may require
• Ability to work independently without supervision in a remote working environment (accountability)
• A natural achiever with proven attention to detail (accuracy)
• 5 years+ experience in an accounting related position using a cloud based accounting software like Quickbooks Online or Xero
• Familiarity with common tech stack such as Slack and Karbon is preferred
• CPA designation is a must

The team

Rooks couldn’t be in a better place than the current work-from-home environment of a post-COVID world. As a remote team, we get the benefit of working in different places and the flexibility of working at different times. We’re a small start-up with a modern culture aiming to innovate and do things differently from everyone else! If that speaks to you, send us a brief introduction of yourself as well as a copy of your resume and we’ll get in touch with you soon.