Senior/Manager/Senior Manager $70k to $150k
North York (Shepperd & Leslie Area)

Do you have what it takes to transition into a Partner's role?

If so, our client wants to meet you!

This firm is presently a 2-partner operation, with six staff, and the senior partner is approaching 60 years of age. The second partner is significantly younger, and carries the burden of reviewing all the files, ensuring proper quality control procedures are met, handling a large client base and being generally responsible for the day-to-day operation of the practice.

The the senior partner looking to take his foot off the gas in the next few years, and this presents a genuine partnership opportunity for the right person within a 1 to 5 year timeframe.

If you are a CA who loves dealing with owner-managed business clients, who has a good working knowledge of Canadian tax issues (so you can talk intelligently about owner compensation issues such as salary -vs- bonus -vs dividend and the related tax issues arising, for example) and have excellent communication skills, then this could be an excellent career move for you.

Ideally you will have spent some time in a small practice environment and appreciate the importance of 'fit' when it comes to culture, work habits and 'getting along with people', and seek a career move where your client service focus and timely delivery of reports for clients will be appreciated and rewarded.

We need a genuine self-starter, who is not afraid to 'push-back' (with either clients or partners) in a polished and professional manner, who will see this opportunity to make your mark in a small firm who give their people the opportunity to manage their own workload and time lines.

Translate that into being given responsibility for managing the needs of clients and working that into your own way of doing things - whether that means working 8 to 4, 9 to 5, 10 to 6 or whatever works best for you.

The culture within this firm is easy-going, where you are allowed the freedom to manage your workload as you see best. If your clients' needs are being well looked after, then so will you. A genuine work/life balance situation has been created, where little overtime during tax season and no weekend work is the 'norm'.

This position is open to anyone who attained their CA designation in 2005 or earlier, in either the small business team of a larger firm, or more likely, in a small practice where you have to 'do a little of everything' and are not frightened of the odd 'cardboard box' job that will come across your desk from time to time.

A 'can-do' attitude will take you a long way with this firm.

There will be plenty of oportunity to work along side the two partners and learn from them, and should you be able to take on more responsibility sooner rather than later, then you will be rewarded with a more interesting and varied workload.

As this is a real partnership track role, it is only open to Canadian CAs, so if you have what it takes, drop us a line with your resume and let's see how far you can take this.

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