What is it like to work for The Side Group of Companies?
Working for a company like Side Group, it means experiencing commitment to their people, their customers, their vendors, their communities and their businesses. Side Group began in the Peace Country over 50 years ago with their industrial distribution business – Northern Metalic. The company’s evolution has taken them from industrial and oilfield supply houses to supply chain management and logistics, property and land development, rail transload and facilities, transportation and finance. Side Group provides direct employment for over 400 people and guides movement of goods and investments annually from the region more than ½ billion dollars.
We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join our team at Side Asset Management Ltd. to assist with our Real Estate and Rail divisions.
Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for coordinating financial accounting and reporting activities while ensuring they are being performed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with established time frames and company and professional standards. This includes preparing reconciliations, entries, preparation of year end files for external review, and providing support to the business unit for all ad-hoc requests and financial analysis.
This role will assist in reviewing the work of the finance team to ensure delegated work is timely, accurate and delivered on schedule. Position will also have responsibilities ranging from cash management and reconciliations, accounts receivable, accounts payable and performing other accounting analyses as requested.
Specific Responsibilities include:
- Maintain timely and accurate general ledger records, including fixed asset listings and depreciation
- Coordinate the preparation of year end working papers
- Perform various account analyses and reconciliations and on-going review of journal entries
- Reconciliation and analysis of annual operating costs for Real Estate division
- Serve as liaison for corporate controller, external accountants while ensuring financial information is presentable.
- Interface with all internal departments
Qualifications include:
- Exceptional data entry skills and attention to detail
- Experience in various software programs, including Sage 50 and Microsoft Office
- Minimum 5 years of accounting experienced required
- Ability to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of organization
Salary negotiable and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $53,924.63-$96,331.64 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Grande Prairie, AB T8V 8E6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:
- Accounting: 5 years (required)
- Sage: 1 year (required)
Language:
Work Location: In person
