Senior Accountant – Bookkeeper

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🕒 September 3

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🏫 Bookkeeping and Clerks

👻 Ghost score 33%

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Manila Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

📋 Description

• Perform accurate, timely full-cycle bookkeeping, including A/P, A/R, GL, bank and credit card feeds, in QuickBooks Online or Xero for Canadian small business clients. • Prepare monthly and quarterly close packages, including reconciliations, accruals, and management reporting. • Prepare year-end working papers, draft financial statements, and adjusting journal entries for partner review. • Prepare Canadian corporate T2 and personal T1 tax returns, plus GST/HST filings, for partner review and final sign-off. • Respond to routine correspondence with tax authorities and prepare supporting documentation for partners' review. • Help build and mentor the offshore team, lead weekly team huddles, and contribute to onboarding new staff. • Communicate with partners in a fully remote, asynchronous environment using Zoom, Microsoft Suite, and Loom. • Identify workflow automation and improvement opportunities using Dext, HubDoc, Zapier, Claude Cowork, and related tools; help shape the firm's evolving tech stack.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. • A local professional designation (CPA Philippines, CA, ACCA, CMA, or equivalent), completed or in progress, is preferred. • At least 5+ years of progressive full-cycle bookkeeping and month-end close experience, ideally with North American, UK, or Australian clients. • Strong proficiency in QuickBooks Online (QBO) or Xero. • Experience with Dext, Hubdoc, Plooto or Zapier is a strong asset and considered advantageous. • Experience in building KPI dashboards using Power BI or advanced Excel is considered an asset. • Canadian tax knowledge is not required; training will be provided on preparing T1, T2, and GST/HST filings under partner review. • Willingness and ability to learn new software, with training provided on CaseWare and the Canadian tax platform CCH iFirm. • Exceptional analytical skills and attention to detail. • Excellent written and verbal English. • Willingness and ability to overlap at least 4 hours per day with Eastern Time (UTC-5/UTC-4) business hours. • Reliable home internet, a quiet work environment, and a workstation suitable for a fully remote role. • High ethical standards and an unwavering commitment to client confidentiality.