Accounting Assistant

• Process full-cycle accounts payable, including invoice coding, approvals, data entry, payment preparation, and vendor inquiries.
• Liaise with Project Managers and Property Managers to obtain approvals, resolve discrepancies, and support day-to-day accounting requirements.
• Monitor and manage the accounting inbox by responding to inquiries, prioritizing requests, and ensuring items are followed up on in a timely manner.
• Assist with accounts receivable duties, including invoicing, deposits, and payment follow-up
• Prepare and post journal entries accurately and in a timely manner
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and investigate variances to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare timely and accurate bank and credit card reconciliations.
• Assist with the compilation and preparation of sales tax returns.
• Maintain intercompany reconciliation schedules and support timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Assist with year-end working papers, supporting documentation, and relevant schedules.
• Perform other accounting and administrative duties as required.

Experience: Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience

Technical Competencies: Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), with an ability to quickly learn new tools and systems as needed.

Yardi experience would be a great asset.

• Attention to Detail & Accountability: Highly organized, detail-oriented, dependable, and committed to producing accurate, high-quality work while taking ownership of assigned responsibilities and team deliverables.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively and professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
• Resourcefulness & Flexibility: Demonstrates initiative, sound judgment, and a solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to adapt and support the team with ad hoc accounting-related and administrative tasks.
• Integrity & Professionalism: Maintains the highest level of confidentiality, discretion, and professionalism in all matters.

Arbutus Properties is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where all employees feel valued and respected.

We welcome applicants that reflect this diversity.

We respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on the traditional territories of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuut’ina, Îyârhe Nakoda, Nehiyaw, Dëne Sųłiné, Dane-zaa, Nakota Sioux.

These lands are subject to Treaties 4,6,7,8, and 10, and have long served as meeting grounds, travel routes, and gathering places for many diverse First Nations including the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, as well as Métis, and Inuit peoples.

We recognize all these Nations and communities, whose rich histories, languages, cultures, and traditions continue to thrive and are key to the enrichment of all our communities.