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Accounting Co-op/Internship (Winter 2024)

Loopio

Loopio

Accounting & Finance
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted 6+ months ago
Loopio is a workplace that unleashes learning & growth opportunities for our Loopers. We provide autonomous, challenging work that allows each employee to master their craft. We attract and retain people who are naturally curious, have grit and are eager to grow and build their careers. At Loopio, we genuinely support each other, because true success comes from working as #oneteam.
Do you like to work hard and question the status quo? Then come help us disrupt the tedious and manual process of answering RFPs!
Loopio is looking for an Accountant (Co-op) to join our Finance and Operations team for a 4-month Winter Co-op/internship from January - April 2024! To be successful in this role, you must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with a keen eye for detail. Here at Loopio, we are a team that is inclusive, fun, and self-motivated!
At Loopio, we genuinely support each other because true success comes from working as one team. When we fail, we fail together, and then we grow. We help each other out and don’t have egos about our roles or titles. We root for each other’s success and celebrate our wins. And we aren’t afraid to ask for help when we need it.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Financial Reporting
  • Assist in providing timely, accurate and relevant financial reporting by ensuring routine accounting tasks are completed efficiently, on-time and correctly on a daily and monthly basis
  • Own key tasks in the month-end close process, including preparation of manual journal entries, for compliance with relevant GAAP and internal controls framework
  • Performing various monthly balance sheet reconciliations and investigating variances
  • Perform monthly, and quarterly, financial statement analysis as part of external compliance package
  • Supporting the Control Environment
  • Acting as control operator for various preventative and detective internal controls across all business processes
  • Maintaining a strong control environment by monitoring for new risks and changes in the business that impact the control environment
  • Continuously looking for areas of improvement and ways to improve business processes
  • Owning Cash Flows
  • Manage and process vendor invoices and payments while ensuring our accounts payable records are accurate and complete
  • Applying cash to customer accounts in a timely manner, while communicating with Billing Team regarding late payments
  • Acting as a point of contact with the company’s financial institutions and monitoring liquidity
  • Other ad-hoc responsibilities
  • Assist with sales tax return preparation (Canadian and US), financial statement audits, and identifying and resolving discrepancies as they arise
  • Performing analysis for non-routine accounting issues as they arise in the normal course of business
  • Coaching of more junior team members and assisting in the onboarding of new team members

What You'll Bring to the Team

  • In pursuance or has completed a Master of Accounting Program
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively follow-up with clients by phone or email to discuss outstanding invoices
  • Strong proficiency with MS Office, and Google Suite. Experience with Xero is a plus!
  • High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Having completed upper-level Accounting course(s)
  • Ready to apply existing knowledge of financial accounting concepts
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and stay organized in a fast-paced environment
  • Working towards a designation (CPA), with a solid understanding of accounting standards (i.e., IFRS, ASPE)

Where You'll Work

  • Loopio is a remote-first workplace because we recognize the advantages of working flexibly. We have two Hub Regions, which means that employees live and work within a 300 KM radius of Toronto (within Ontario) or Vancouver (within British Columbia) and work within regular business hours in their timezone.
  • Loopio’s office headquarters are located in Toronto’s vibrant Kensington Market. All Loopers have the option to work from home. Ontario Loopers have the option to work in the Toronto HQ and BC Loopers may work from our co-working office in Gastown Vancouver. It is whatever works best for you!
  • You’ll collaborate with your teams virtually (we’re just a Zoom call away!) and have established core sync hours and focus time during the workday to enable us to work smarter together

Why You'll Love Working at Loopio

  • Your manager supports your development by providing ongoing feedback and regular 1-on-1s
  • You have tons of autonomy and responsibility: this role provides an opportunity to try new things and push creative boundaries
  • You’ll learn more than you thought was possible; our team is obsessed with personal and professional growth
  • You’ll be set up to work remotely with a MacBook laptop, a monthly phone and internet allowance, and a work-from-home budget to help get your home office all set up!
  • Join us in quarterly company celebrations and a company-wide annual retreat to celebrate the big wins and milestones as #oneteam!
  • You’ll be joining a culture that has thoughtfully built out opportunities for connections in a remote-first environment.
  • We have Employee Resource Groups, House Teams (curious? ask us about it!), virtual yoga, cooking classes and many more moments for us to have fun and learn together!
  • You’ll be a part of an award-winning workplace and one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies with ample opportunity to make a big impact here!
We recognize that all too often, potential candidates don’t apply for a position simply because they don’t hit every single criteria included in the job description—particularly members of underrepresented groups.
Whether or not your experience checks off all the boxes on a job posting, we still encourage you to apply to ensure that your application receives a review from our team. We understand that a resume can only showcase so much during the applicant stage, so we've created prompts in the application for you to share more about yourself. If you've made a career transition (or a few!), you’re self taught in a new role, or you have skills/experience you’d like to highlight, we want to hear more about what you could bring to the table.