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Administrative Assistant

@ Doane Grant Thornton

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

Full-time2+ years experience
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Overview

Doane Grant Thornton is hiring a full-time Administrative Assistant to support client service colleagues at a professional services firm. The role covers tax return assembly, financial statement formatting, billing and expense support, D365 client setup, reception and boardroom duties. The role is onsite, in-office five days each week.

Responsibilities:

  • Assemble T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 tax returns and financial statements
  • Prepare letters and reports using firm templates
  • Provide billing support and assist with partner expense reports
  • Set up and maintain client records in Microsoft D365
  • Run reception, answer phones and manage mail and couriers

Requirements summary:

  • 2 years of administrative experience
  • Strong MS Office skills
  • Excellent data entry and proofreading skills
  • Knowledge of Taxprep, CaseWare or Keystone is an asset
  • Strong organizational and time management skills

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Employer posting date
2026-11-06
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2026-10-10
Source record updated
2026-11-06

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentAdministrative
Experience2+ years
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice, Client sites
PositionSitting and standing
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish

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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
Other recorded names
  • 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 Administrative Assistant your responsibilities will include:
• Working independently and within a team environment to support our client service colleagues to produce high quality client deliverables
• Assemble T1 personal tax returns as well as other Canada Revenue forms including T2s, T3s, T4s and T5s
• Format financial statements in compliance with Firm standards
• Preparation of letters and reports using firm templates in compliance with Firm standards
• Proof-read, review for quality, and verify content before finalizing any client deliverables
• E-filing as required
• Participate in training and stay current with Doane GT software
• Provide billing support using various Doane Grant Thornton systems
• Assist in the preparation and submission of expense reports for the partners
• Using Microsoft D365 application software to set up new clients as well as track, maintain and report on client relationships
• General administrative duties including, but not limited to filing, photocopying, scanning, and faxing
• Ensuring Reception is opened/closed appropriately
• Answering the software-based telephone in a professional manner, and transferring the caller to the appropriate business unit or colleague
• Greeting and welcoming each guest in a friendly and inviting manner
• Ordering office supplies
• Receiving and securing cheques, debit/credit card payments
• Maintaining proper office appearance and cleanliness
• Managing boardroom bookings and catering requirements including set-up, and clean-up for meetings and office events
• Aiding with the preparation of meeting materials (i.e. presentations, handouts etc)
• Managing mail and courier requirements for delivery and pickup

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 Administrative Assistant? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
• Strong MS Suite Skills
• 2 years of administrative experience
• Excellent data entry skills and high attention to detail with an aptitude for proofreading and suggesting alternatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Exceptional client service mindset
• Computer savvy – ability to learn and troubleshoot various computer programs
• Knowledge of Taxprep, CaseWare and or Keystone and past experience in financial statement preparation an asset
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Takes initiative, takes direction and works well independently
• Keen attention to detail, efficient and accurate

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.

*This role is required to be onsite, in-office five days each week.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?

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