AZ Accounting Firm Hiring for Virtual Assistant – work from home at Toronto, ON Full Time

AZ Accounting Firm is a professional services firm that operates in a paperless environment. Due to expansion, we require an independent virtual administrative assistant to support our bookkeeping and operations team.

You will have the flexibility of working from a home office ensuring our client’s needs are met in a timely manner. Your ability to respond to our head office requires 2 hours turnaround during the business day.

This is not a full-time opportunity. It is a part-time contract position involving approximately 40 hours per month – please only apply if this meets the needs of your present situation.

Experience in a public accounting firm or accounting environment a strong asset; strong computer data management is essential and bookkeeping experience is also helpful

Duties

• Support the operations manager in setting up new client files on workflow management and client portal software, revise data files and support functions relating to business process improvements
• Support a team of accounting professionals with client management. The successful candidate will oversee several email inboxes relating to our clients’ accounting issues. You must be available for a period during both morning and afternoon business hours to ensure client needs are met. You will respond by email in a timely manner to inquiries that are received to this inbox concerning issues such as supplier invoices, customer payments, bank deposits, vendor queries, payroll questions.
• Report urgent issues to the internal client account manager
• Maintain subject logs and time logs of each inbox activities

Qualifications

• Proficient with technology-based database management software such as CRM and/or workflow management systems, online communication, and partner-sharing software
• Experience with MS Office; (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Strong math aptitude and an ability to spot numeric irregularities
• Detail oriented and take pride in your ability to produce accurate work output
• An ability to work autonomously while being part of our team
• Problem solver and understand the goals you undertake to perform
• Strong English spoken and written communication skills
• A success-oriented mindset and want to grow with an expanding firm
• An ability to set priorities and organize your time to meet criteria
• Strong sense of urgency and can meet deadlines
• Respect for other people’s accomplishments and feel pride in your own

Please note that the Attention to Detail and the Logic and Critical Thinking assessments form part of this application.

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 10 per week

Salary: $25.00-$30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• email inbox monitoring: 2 years (required)
• virtual / remote / work at home: 1 year (required)
• accounting firm/department: 2 years (preferred)
• database management software: 2 years (required)
• bookkeeping: 2 years (preferred)