Dartmouth
Senior Staff Accountant, Assurance and Advisory
We are looking for a Senior Staff Accountant, Assurance and Advisory to join our growing team. Baker Tilly offers an outstanding environment to continue developing your career by providing challenging and rewarding opportunities, while working in a collaborative and supportive environment.
About Baker Tilly Nova Scotia Inc.
Baker Tilly Nova Scotia Inc. is an independent member of Baker Tilly Canada, an entrepreneurial accounting network that fosters a meaningful career and the opportunity to influence tomorrow for your clients, your profession, and your community. Our professionals are encouraged to Be True to their values and ambitions, alongside our shared commitment to building great relationships, great conversations, and great futures.
With member firms from coast to coast, we are one of the country’s largest associations of chartered accounting firms. As an international network, we have a longstanding reputation for value-added audit, tax, and advisory solutions. We embrace a model of client-focused, partner-led service and believe that quality of life for our high-performance team is important. We have strong community involvement and believe in providing our clients with high quality personalized services.
As a 17 partner, locally owned firm located in Dartmouth, our office is comprised of over 110 professionals who serve companies at all stages of their development from emerging and owner-managed businesses to large private companies, not-for-profit organizations, governments, professionals, and individuals.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
What You’ll Do:
- Assist in planning, execution and completion of a wide range of Audit, Review and Compilation (T1, T2, T3, T5) engagements, both independently and as part of a team.
- Supervise junior staff during field assignments, inform managers of engagement status and manage engagement progress.
- Analyze financial information, accounting processes and operations procedures; provide account reconciliations and propose adjusting entries.
- Assess risk, controls, operational performance and adherence to GAAP.
- Prepare personal, corporate, non- profit organization information and charitable tax returns.
- Collaborate with peers and senior management on file planning and completion within time constraints.
- Provide personal, attentive service to clients to encourage productive working relationships.
- Preparation and review of financial statements and related note disclosures.
A successful candidate will have:
What You’ll Bring:
- Successful completion of the Common Final Evaluation (CFE), at a minimum holding a status of CPA-in-waiting.
- Minimum of three to five years direct experience.
- Experience leading junior staff on client deliverables.
- Project management and strong organization skills.
- Experience with Caseware/Caseview, TaxPrep, Sage Accounting and Quickbooks (QBO) is an asset.
Application Information:
Application Information:
Interested candidates should apply via the "Apply For This Job" link. We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are actively seeking to add team members from communities with lived experiences of marginalization and underrepresentation. We respect and value each individual and their lived experiences and commit to creating a more diverse team and establishing a culture of belonging. If you self-identify as Black, Indigenous, a person of colour, a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community or another marginalized group, we strongly encourage you to apply.
As part of the 2020 Forbes list of Canada’s Best Employers, Baker Tilly is highly rated among our employees because we provide a vibrant, fulfilling culture.
- We encourage all to be true to their values and ambitions and following their own path
- We value our people and our reputation
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo
- We foster collaboration in everything we do
- We are locally dedicated with national scale
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable
- We are committed to building great relationships, having great conversations, and forging great futures
We also appreciate the value of work-life harmony for our staff. The following is just a glimpse of some of our great perks!
- Competitive salary
- Wellness and fitness incentives
- Flex time
- Comprehensive benefits package
- On site gym
- Free parking