We are looking for an Accounting Clerk to join our team in Ottawa, Ontario on a Contract basis for a short-term assignment. This opportunity is ideal for a detail-oriented accounting specialist who can help manage an increase in workload while supporting day-to-day financial operations. The role requires strong communication skills, accuracy in high-volume processing, and the ability to work efficiently across payable and receivable activities.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Process a large volume of invoices accurately and ensure entries are recorded in Sage in a timely manner.<br>• Review outstanding invoices, clear manual backlogs, and follow through on payment processing activities.<br>• Reconcile account balances and investigate discrepancies to maintain accurate financial records.<br>• Support both accounts payable and accounts receivable tasks, including billing and payment tracking.<br>• Enter financial data with a high level of accuracy while maintaining organized documentation.<br>• Make required payment or invoice adjustments and ensure changes are properly reflected in the system.<br>• Communicate with internal stakeholders and external contacts to resolve invoice, billing, or payment issues.
<p><strong>Robert Half is partnering with an organization that's looking to add a Bookkeeper to their team in Kanata. This is a full-time/permanent role on site.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>-Competitive salary (75-80K)</p><p>-Full benefits + RRSP/DPSP</p><p>-3 weeks vacation + closed between Christmas/NYE</p><p>-Free parking </p><p>-Excellent team</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><p>• Manage full-cycle bookkeeping activities, including supplier payments, customer receipts, deposits, and daily financial transaction processing with a high level of accuracy.</p><p>• Reconcile banking, credit card, and general ledger accounts regularly, ensuring records are complete and backed by clear supporting documentation.</p><p>• Administer payroll, maintain payroll files, and assist with scheduled remittances and recurring statutory submissions in compliance with Canadian requirements.</p><p>• Prepare and track purchase orders based on approved business needs, assigning costs correctly to projects, departments, or inventory locations.</p><p>• Communicate with suppliers to resolve pricing questions, delivery concerns, billing inconsistencies, product returns, and credit requests.</p><p>• Maintain accurate vendor, product, and pricing information while supporting inventory record reviews against departmental physical count results.</p><p>• Monitor job costing details and prepare variance reporting to highlight spending concerns, coding errors, or omitted costs requiring follow-up.</p><p>• Generate customer invoices from approved service or project documentation, record incoming payments, and follow up professionally on outstanding balances.</p><p>• Partner with teams across construction, service, sales, yard or shop, store, and administration to keep source documents complete and financially accurate.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Half is partnering with an organization that's looking to add an experienced accountant to join their growing Finance team. This is a full-time/permanent role on site.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>-Competitive salary (60-80K) + 5% EOY bonus</p><p>-Full benefits + RRSP matching</p><p>-3 weeks vacation + other perks/discounts</p><p>-Free parking </p><p>-Excellent team</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>• Manage month-end and year-end close activities, including preparing and posting recurring and non-recurring journal entries, completing reconciliations, and maintaining accurate supporting schedules and workpapers.</p><p>• Support audit and compliance requirements by preparing audit schedules, providing documentation to external auditors and tax-related reporting, and ensuring adherence to GAAP and company accounting policies.</p><p>• Collaborate cross-functionally with AP, AR, payroll, and operations teams to ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting.</p><p>• Prepare tax filings, supporting schedules, and related documentation for a range of direct and indirect tax obligations across the company and associated entities.</p><p>• Reconcile tax-related accounts and review balances to ensure financial reporting reflects the organization’s current tax position accurately.</p><p>• Work closely with teams across operations, finance, legal, treasury, and other departments to strengthen controls and improve tax reporting processes.</p><p>• Coordinate information and respond to requests during tax audits and assessments by conducting analysis and assembling required backup documentation.</p><p>• Track filing deadlines, licence renewals, and payment schedules through a maintained compliance calendar to support timely submissions.</p><p>• Liaise with external advisors and service providers by gathering records and preparing materials required for corporate tax and information returns.</p><p>• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance documentation, and automate recurring tax and accounting activities while reducing compliance risk.</p><p>• Support cash forecasting by preparing tax estimates and monitoring payments or recoveries in collaboration with treasury and finance teams.</p><p>• Handling other financial related duties as assigned. </p><p>• Conduct technical research, assist with internal audit queries related to customer setup, and contribute to special projects or other assigned accounting duties.</p>