Job Title: Staff Accountant – Cash Application
Department: Credit
Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Status: Permanent, Full-time
Reports to: Credit Manager
About the Company
When you join Kyocera Document Solutions Canada, you are joining an organization that is deeply rooted in the Philosophy of “doing what is right as a human being”. Through this Philosophy, our employees are passionate about providing best in class customer service through efficiency, accountability, and a sense of urgency all while putting knowledge to work to drive change.
The chance to do something meaningful, to challenge yourself, to be a part of change in an industry, to influence change, which does not come around every day. If you are a passionate individual driven by challenges and want to be an agent of change and a driver of growth, then Kyocera Document Solutions Canada is the right company for you.
About the Role
As a Staff Accountant, you have a strong background in accounting and cash management, especially in Accounts Receivable as your core focus. You would be responsible for a variety of standardized tasks, which includes cash application, performing clearly defined month end pre-close tasks, daily controls, maintain records by tracking and recording, cash deposit details and journal entries and related tasks.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Apply/post the received cash against customer accounts, posting all payments into the system to update the account receivable ledger.
- Filing cash application records and customer account reconciliation
- Maintaining records of credit card transactions and perform end of day reconciliation on credit card transactions.
- Research unapplied and unidentified payments.
- Perform month end closing process and prepare journal entries on post-closing deposits.
- Prepare all working schedules on cash management for internal audit and external audit.
- Reconcile payment discrepancies, such as overpayments, underpayments, or payments without corresponding invoices or appropriate backup.
- Prepare month end reports for financial reporting and manage the inter-company AR confirmations and reconciliations.
- Communicate with management and credit department on AR concerns and find a resolution for customers.
- Prepare worksheets for fund management forecasting and planning.
- Daily reconciliation of lock box deposits.
- Knowledge and ability to follow policies, procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, accounting rules, and banking guidelines and accepted practice
- Other accounting and cash management related assignments and special projects.
Qualifications
Required:
- University degree and/or College Diploma in related field, preferably in Business or Accounting.
- Strong ability to work in a deadline driven department, with particular attention to detail
- Proficient in Office 365, such as Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
- Strong ability to multitask
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication
- Ability to maintain strong communication skills with management is critical
- Must be able to collaborate across departments/functions of the company
Preferred:
- 1-3 years (preferred) experience in accounting and or cash management.
- Strong organizational skills and being self-motivated is critical to the role
- Excellent computer skills and the will to learn new software is a must
What we offer
- Hybrid working environment : 5 days a month work from home
- Free parking
- Casual Fridays
- RRSP matching program
- Monthly Lunch and Fun activities
- Goodlife Membership Discount
- Excellent Dental and Health Benefits
- PTO Days
- Vacation Days
- Excellent work environment & culture