Our mission is to provide Canadian small and medium-sized businesses with a bespoke accounting solution and amazing service, while achieving a good work-life balance and competitive pay for our staff.

Opportunities for growth and promotion are available.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

- Enter bank transactions, receipts, bills, and reconcile balance sheet accounts.
- Complete payroll runs for clients and file ROE's.
- File T5018 and T4a slips/returns.
- Prepare tax returns (T1 & GST/HST/PST mostly).
- Assist the accounting team with various projects related to data entry, bookkeeping, perosnal tax, and payroll.
- Respond to CRA audits, request adjustments, and see CRA requests through to completion.
- Process payrolls, make slips, and file ROEs.
- Prepare T5, T5018, T4a, and other annual slips.
- Use cloud apps such as: QBO, Xero, DEXT, and more.
- Some applicants, if strong, may be given a team to oversee.

You are:

- Looking for a long-term commitment of 10+ years with a single employer.

It would also be nice (but not crucial) if you had:

- 7+ experience years of experience in complex bookkeeping, and you have performed most of the abovementioned tasks. (We are willing to take on people with limited experience if they're ready to learn).
- Certifications in QBO, Xero, DEXT, Excel, Word, Outlook, and more.
- A certificate or diploma in accounting or business.
- Average grades of 80% or higher.
- Written recommendations from prior employers
- Stayed with a single employer for 5+ years.





Salary and Benefits

- Starting at 50,000 to 80,000/year, depending on prior experience as a bookkeeping.
- Cost-plus medical plan, which starts at 1,000/year.
- Disability and life insurance protection plan
- 2-4 weeks of paid time off (sick leave and vacation)
- Underground parking (for those choosing to work on-site)
- Free personal tax preparation for yourself and your spouse

Our Recruitment Process Your application will be reviewed, and those moving to the next steps will be contacted by email or telephone and invited to have an online meeting. If, after this meeting, we have decided not to progress with your application, you will be notified by email because we don't like to leave candidates hanging.

If successful, the candidate will be invited to have an in-person meeting.

The candidate will be asked to complete a brief skills test taking no more than 1 hour and will likely involve verbal questions about tax matters, adjusting journal entries, and more.

We will require at least 1 referral from a previous employer in public practice.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $50,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

Perks

- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- In office parking
- Paid time off
- Work from home

Application question(s):
- How many years are you looking to commit to this opportunity?

Experience:
- Accounting in public practice: 7 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person

📌 Bookkeeping and Personal Tax Preparer Needed for a small Public Practice Firm (Edmonton)
🏢 Johanson-Witt Professional
📍 Edmonton