Bookkeeper

4-Day Work Week | Client Advisory Services | Remote, Across Canada

McLenehan and Associates Chartered Professional Accountants

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE

- 4-Day Work Week: Four 8-hour days.
- Remote First: Work from anywhere in Canada. Our Client Advisory Services team is remote by design, not as an accommodation.
- Competitive Salary: $50,000 to $60,000, commensurate with experience. Full-time pay for fewer hours.
- A Book You Can Actually Know: A portfolio of clients you work on daily so you know them well enough to see what their owners should be asking about.
- Real Review, Real Support: Your work is reviewed by a CPA controller who coaches rather than corrects.
- Generous Time Off: 3 weeks of vacation plus a paid week during the December holidays.
- Paid Growth: Firm-funded training and professional development.
- Retirement Ready: RRSP contribution matching to support your long-term financial security.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Prescription, dental, and vision coverage.

THE PROSPECT

Most bookkeeping jobs are built around the calendar. Files arrive, you process them, they close, and next month they arrive again. The advice, if there is any, happens somewhere above you.

This is not that job.

McLenehan and Associates CPAs is a growing Winnipeg-based accounting firm serving hundreds of incorporated Canadian small businesses, from monthly bookkeeping and year-end compliance through to Fractional CFO and Virtual Controller services. Our Client Advisory Services team sits at the front of that work. We are inside a small group of client businesses every single day,



keeping their books current in real time so their owners can make decisions on numbers that are accurate today, not accurate six weeks ago.

That changes the shape of the job. You will carry a portfolio of clients, and you will know those businesses properly. You will handle the daily flow of their transactions and their questions, decide what needs your attention first, and bring your controller the things that genuinely need a CPA. Nobody will hand you a task list each morning. The work is yours to run.

We are building this team around capable, self-directed bookkeepers. That is a deliberate choice, and it means real ownership and real influence over how the department operates as it grows.

We are not looking for someone to grow into this. We are looking for someone who has already held a book of clients together, made the calls, and kept it clean. If you have been that person and you would like it to be the actual job description rather than the thing nobody notices, keep reading.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Daily Client Ownership

- Own a daily portfolio of roughly four to ten client files, keeping each set of books current and review-ready: categorizing incoming transactions,



clearing uncategorized and unmatched items, and following up with clients on missing documentation.
- Own the daily inflow to your clients’ dedicated accounting email addresses. You are the first point of contact for anything arriving there: sort it, action what you can, and pull in the CPA controller when a question calls for their input.
- Work directly with client-side accounting staff where a client keeps part of the bookkeeping in house. Bookkeeping standards vary widely from client to client, so a meaningful part of the role is reviewing their entries, correcting what comes through before it reaches your controller, and coaching where it will keep the same issue from recurring next month.
- Set priorities across multiple clients and competing deadlines without day-to-day direction.
- Communicate directly and professionally with client contacts through proactive follow-up and consistent delivery on commitments.

Full-Cycle Bookkeeping

- Perform full-cycle bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online, including transaction categorization, bank and credit card reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable management, and month-end close to trial balance.
- Prepare GST/HST and provincial sales tax returns before deadlines, and process payroll as assigned.
- Use cloud accounting and automation tools to deliver quality work within client fee expectations.
- Support the onboarding and setup of current Client Advisory Services clients as the team grows.

Working With Your

📌 Bookkeeper - 4-Day Work Week (Ottawa)
🏢 Mclenehan And Associates Chartered Professional Accountants
📍 Ottawa