Junior Accountant to process expense accounting journal entries - 36811

Our large banking client is looking for a Junior Accountant to process expense accounting journal entries - 36811.

Location Address: Downtown Toronto (Financial District) - Hybrid - 3 days in office (no mandatory days)

Contract Duration: 9 months

Number of Positions: 1

Scheduled Hours: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Fridays

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have Skills:

• 3 years of experience working in accounting processing expense accounting journal entries
• 3 years of experience with Microsoft 365 including Excel and SharePoint

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous banking experience is an asset
• Previous exposure or experience working with PeopleSoft

Typical Day in Role:

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
• Works in collaboration with other team members to ensure accounting activities are aligned with standard operating procedures and are being performed in a timely and accurate manner
• Conducts a review of accounting entries submitted by business units to ensure reasonability and approvals are provided
• Communicate with business users to advise of any issues found with transaction requests submitted
• Reviews and makes recommendations to improve standard operating procedures for accounting operations
• Supports Managers/Asst. Managers on escalation of accounting issues
• Interacts remotely with processing team(s) in the Global Business Services campus (Bogota, Colombia)
• Contributes subject matter expertise to help maintain relevant policies
• Captures data points that contribute to the reporting of operations SLAs / KPIs / KRIs
• Analyzes operational support data to gather insights and suggest process improvements
• Conducts training for new team members and business users for the processing and submission of accounting entries,