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general accountant

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Employer details SEIU Healthcare Training Center

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*OUR ORGANIZATION:* SEIU Healthcare is a union of more than 60,000 frontline healthcare members. There is a health human resources crisis that continues to have an adverse impact on our members, healthcare operations, and those who receive care. We believe we have a shared interest in working together with employers, government, and other stakeholders to find real solutions to the crisis and have established the SEIU Healthcare Training Centre to create a new standard for workforce development that can build and maintain the high-quality sustainable workforce that Ontarians and their families need and deserve. We have already made incredible progress. We have partnered with our union?s national labour management organization, the Healthcare Career Advancement Program, which represents more than 1000 employers and 550,000 workers throughout North America, taken concrete steps to become a licenced career college to provide vocational training and upward career mobility, partnered with employers to deliver impactful curriculum to address systemic problems, and created a career pathway program to expedite licensing of internationally educated nurses. We have also created our digital hiring hall that leverages the scale of our membership to provide employers with a well trained and trusted workforce as an alternative to the burden of costly temporary staffing agencies that continue to erode continuity and quality care. *POSITION DESCRIPTION:* The _SEIU Healthcare Training Centre_ needs a motivated, well rounded, and adaptable accounting and finance professional to support all our finance needs. The successful applicantwill promote the values, principles, and services of the Training Centre by working as an integral part of the Finance Team in providing useful, accurate and timely information to Senior Management for decision making and strategic planning as well as policy and internal control implementations. The position holder will report to the Director of Finance, and work in close coordination with other Training Centre team members, SEIU finance team and management team, and others to refer and consult regarding financial reporting and accounting matters. This position is full-time and is based at our Head Office in Richmond Hill, Ontario. *DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:* * Perform general accounting duties including adjusting journal entries, account reconciliations, bank reconciliation and inter-company reconciliations; perform month-end and year-end duties; prepare documents for and assist in year-end audit. * Perform full cycle of accounts payable functions including reviewing, analyzing and processing vendor invoices and payments such as EFT, wire, Interac e-Transfer payment through the financial system in place and online banking system; processing other forms of payments as required. * Responsible for full cycle of accounts receivable function including generating AR invoices and processing cash receipts; working closely with workplaces/employers with regards to outstanding invoices, reconciling discrepancies if any. * Prepare and maintain fixed assets continuity schedule. * Maintain accurate member record; reconcile member related accounts. Maintain accurate member information in UnionWare system. * Perform HST and other year-end reconciliation and remittances; prepare and process other government remittances as required. * Prepare monthly financial reports and management reports as required. * Maintain operating files for the above duties and other relevant filings. * Other duties as assigned. *Education:* * Bachelor?s degree in accounting and related field plus demonstrated accounting and financial reporting skills and experiences. *GENERAL REQUIREMENTS* * 5+ years of demonstrated experience in performing full cycle Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and general accounting and related duties. * Demonstrated experience in using Great Plains (GP) and/or other ERP financial system. * 5+ experiences in prepari