Accounting Manager - Today's Family Caring For your Child

Position Summary:
As Accounting Manager at Today’s Family, you will play a crucial role in upholding the financial integrity and operational efficiency of our organization. In addition to overseeing key accounting functions such as financial reporting, budget management, and system improvements, you will lead and mentor a team of accounting professionals. Your leadership will drive excellence within the finance department, ensuring accurate and timely financial operations while supporting our mission to provide high-quality child care services. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence accounting processes, foster team development, and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Financial Reporting: Prepare and analyze financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for internal and external reporting purposes.
2. Budgeting and Forecasting: Assist in the development and monitoring of annual budgets and forecasts to ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
3. Accounts Payable and Receivable: Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, including processing invoices, reconciling accounts, and communicating with vendors and clients as needed.
4. General Ledger Maintenance: Maintain accurate and up-to-date general ledger accounts by recording journal entries, reconciling balances, and performing monthly and year-end closing procedures.
5. Grant Accounting: Coordinate with operational managers to ensure compliance with grant funding requirements, including budgeting, reporting, and reimbursement processes.
6. Audit Support: Assist in the preparation for annual financial audits, including gathering documentation, answering inquiries, and implementing audit recommendations.
7. Financial Analysis: Conduct ad hoc financial analysis to support decision-making processes and identify opportunities for operational improvement.
8. Systems Change: Drive systems change initiatives within the finance department to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of accounting processes and reporting systems.
9. Assessment: Conduct regular assessments of accounting procedures, controls, and systems to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions to optimize financial operations.
10. Compliance: Stay abreast of relevant accounting regulations and ensure compliance with federal, provincial, and local financial reporting requirements.
11. Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies in accounting processes and recommend and implement solutions to streamline operations and enhance accuracy and efficiency.
12. Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments and stakeholders to provide financial expertise and support organizational initiatives.

You bring the following qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or progress towards CPA certification preferred.
2. Minimum of 2 years of accounting or finance experience, preferably in a non-profit setting, with at least 1 year in a leadership or supervisory role.
3. Proficiency in accounting software (e.g., Adagio) and Microsoft Excel; strong understanding of GAAP and non-profit accounting principles.
4. Demonstrated experience in leading and developing a team, with effective leadership skills and the ability to inspire and manage accounting professionals.
5. Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail and the ability to conduct thorough financial analysis.
6. Communication: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the capability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders.
7. Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time effectively, and adapt to a fast-paced environment.

How does Today’s Family stand out as an employer of CHOICE?

1. Today’s Family is the place to GROW! With many programs and types of programs, we offer unique opportunities to master new skills, lend your talents, leverage your passions by experiencing a variety of early learning and childcare programs and special projects.
2. TELL the STORY of your professional journey as an ECE leader with resources and platforms to share your learning, best thinking, and practices to strengthen programs across our communities and work towards your Continuous Professional Learning (CPL).
3. LEVERAGE your gifts. We’re committed to investing in diverse skills, talents, and experiences that help us to enhance programs and inclusion for children and families. Have a specific skill? Speak multiple languages? Consider bringing them to the table and watch them spark new learning, exploration, and opportunity within our programs.
4. PRIORITIZE the health and well-being of you and your family with employee benefits like a competitive, comprehensive health benefit program as part of any 25+ hour per week permanent contract, including medical, dental, and vision coverage AND access to employee wellness resources and services through LifeWorks.
5. INVEST in your future by participating in our employer supported retirement savings plan and disability and life insurance plans.

If you’ve read through this opportunity and feel like,“Hey, you know what, yes, Today’s Family aligns with my own values and dreams for the future.”, then we invite you to reach out, send in your cover letter and resume, or even stop by to ask more questions or to introduce yourself. We would like to meet you!

We would be happy to connect with you as you explore your future.

We invite you to learn more about Today’s Family, who we are, what we’re up to, why we exist, and where we’re headed by visiting www.todaysfamily.ca or following our story on social media @todaysfamilyont.

Our Commitment to You:

Our People Resources Team is here for you during every step of the way. Please contact us at any point in your exploration of, or application to, Today’s Family.

At Today’s Family, we celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity for the benefit of our team, programs, and our community. We are actively seeking qualified individuals with demonstrated skill and knowledge to deal with all aspects of diversity in early learning and childcare.

Today’s Family is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities through the hiring process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require an accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please contact our People Partners at hr@todaysfamily.ca.

Start Date: Fall 2024

Today’s Family is committed to building a work environment that values human rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion to ensure welcoming experiences that meet the needs of the families and communities we serve.

Today’s Family will provide job applicants with accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.