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Accountant, Privately Held Business Group

@ Doane Grant Thornton

Moncton, New Brunswick

Full-time1+ years experience
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Overview

Doane Grant Thornton is hiring a full-time Accountant for its Privately Held Business Group. The role handles bookkeeping, financial statement compilation, tax returns and client accounting queries for private businesses. Teams are required in the office 4 days per week.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan and execute client engagements to firm standards
  • Prepare bookkeeping, financial statements and adjusting entries
  • Reconcile bank, receivable, payable and payroll accounts
  • Prepare personal, corporate, trust and GST returns
  • Answer day-to-day accounting queries for private business clients

Requirements summary:

  • Accounting certificate, diploma or equivalent practical experience
  • 1-5 years of accounting experience, preferably in public practice
  • Sage and QBO experience is an asset
  • Ability to work independently and within a team
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Articulate written and verbal communication

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Retirement planWellness
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Employer posting date
2026-11-06
First seen by our source
2026-10-10
Source record updated
2026-11-06

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentFinance & accounting
Experience1+ years
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Scheduleday
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationCollege diploma (preferred)
Fields of studyAccounting
Perks mentionedRetirement plan, Performance bonus, Wellness

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Doane Grant Thornton

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Doane Grant Thornton is dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive.

Full company description

In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses that have shaped our country and economy—from small businesses to industry leaders. With nearly 3,000 colleagues in 70 offices from St. John's to Victoria, we're deeply connected to the people, industries, and communities that make Canada thrive. Our unique, purpose-driven culture has resulted in consistent recognition as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute since 2008. As bold leaders in our chosen markets and within the professional services industry, we're committed to our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd., whose member firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide.

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Reported office locations
  • 200 King St W, 20th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T4, CA
Business categories
  • Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Financial Services
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  • Doane Grant Thornton
  • Doane Grant Thornton LLP
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In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses…

FieldValue
IndustryProfessional Services
Company size1,001-5,000 employees
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Organization typePartnership
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Job description

Who we are
You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

As an Accountant, Privately Held Business Group your responsibilities will include:
• Plan and execute client engagements in accordance with firm standards
• Bookkeeping preparation and posting of client transactions
• Planning and execution of compilation engagements, including preparation of financial statements
• Preparing adjusting journal entries and working paper files
• Reconciling bank accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other balance sheet accounts
• Preparing and reconciling payroll records and related remittances
• Preparing personal and corporate tax returns, trust returns and GST returns
• Assisting a broad range of privately held business clients with day-to-day accounting queries
• Completing additional ad-hoc duties or assignments as required
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships through responsive and professional service

Doane Grant Thornton
If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Doane Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens!

Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca

Think you’ve got what it takes to be an Accountant, Privately Held Business Group? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
• An accounting certificate, diploma or equivalent practical experience
• 1-5 years of accounting experience, preferably in public practice
• Experience with Sage and QBO is an asset
• The ability to work independently and within a team
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to be an articulate, inspiring and versatile communicator, both written and verbal

At Doane Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.

What's in it for you?

Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more!

Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?

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