Corporate Accountant

• May 2021 - Present

Accountant

• Jan 2020 - May 2021

• Develops system to account for financial transactions by establishing a chart of accounts; defining bookkeeping policies and procedures. • Prepare financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends while following IFRS standards.• Daily track the firm’s financial and operating metrics which impacts its risk adjusted capital to ensure it is abiding to the rules set out by the regulatory body (IIROC).• Prepare monthly financial reports as well as preform ratio and variance analysis as required by regulatory bodies.• Prepare internal financial statements and other supporting reports to present at the quarterly board meetings.• Calculate and prepare GST/HST remittances.• Conduct various day to day tasks to ensure firm is in compliance with securities laws and regulations. • Quarterly assess the internal controls of different departments to address weaknesses and also provided recommendations. • Daily perform a review to rule out outstanding margin calls, and give any required direction to registered staff to address credit issues with their client accounts.• Weekly perform a sampling review of all emails to ensure compliance with internal policy and applicable industry regulations.• Perform initial due diligence on all wires transfers and cheque requests submitted by Investment Advisors and others, to ensure requests meet requirements of applicable policies & procedures.

Accountant

• Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

• Create financial statements for various companies in multiple industries.• Prepare tax returns for various clients (personal and corporate).• Manage and maintain payroll and bookkeeping services for clients.• Provide advice to clients regarding their long-term financial plans.• Create a tailored business plan for companies in different industries. • Create financial statements for various companies in multiple industries.• Prepare tax returns for various clients (personal and corporate).• Manage and maintain payroll and bookkeeping services for clients.• Provide advice to clients regarding their long-term financial plans.• Create a tailored business plan for companies in different industries.

Financial Services Representative

• Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

• Engaged and built rapport with various clients on a daily basis in order to provide a tailored solutions to meet their current and future financial needs.• Overcame customer objections for both personal and business clients in order to successfully meet and exceed quarterly targets.• Ensured customer follow-up resulted in full customer satisfaction. Also, proactively maintained professional contact with clients in order to assist them with a diverse range of instruments.• Educated clients on various subjects such as: cash and credit management, investments and wealth protection.• Responsible for restocking and ordering cash as well as balancing cash amounts on hand. • Ensured deficiencies or out of balance variances were investigated in a timely manner and reported as per protocol.• Reconcile foreign cash amounts and ensure that orders are completed within a specified time frame to ensure no shortages.• Trained new employees as they job shadowed by using a variety of coaching techniques.

Junior Accountant

• Sep 2010 - Oct 2014

• Assisted in creating financial statements for various companies in multiple industries.• Assisted in gathering documentation and preparing tax returns for various clients (personal and corporate).• Managed and maintained payroll and bookkeeping services for clients. • Assisted in creating financial statements for various companies in multiple industries.• Assisted in gathering documentation and preparing tax returns for various clients (personal and corporate).• Managed and maintained payroll and bookkeeping services for clients.

Business Administrator

• Sep 2008 - Mar 2009

• Acted as receptionist for incoming and outgoing calls to various clients.• Communicated daily updates from the stock market to various clients as well as provided account statements on a weekly basis. • Deposited money orders, cheques and cash, as well as various other funds on behalf of Scotia McLeod’s clients on a daily basis. • Delivered sensitive documents to various institutions and clients in order to facilitate trading. Made sure the appropriate documentation was acquired, along with required signatures.• Participated in Sick Kids fundraiser fair to raise awareness and collect donations