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Senior Accountant, Assurance [Audit]

@ Doane Grant Thornton

Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Full-time2+ years experience
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Overview

Doane Grant Thornton is hiring a Senior Accountant, Assurance to plan and execute financial statement audits, reviews and compilations for clients. The role also covers corporate and personal tax return preparation and leading teams on engagements. The posting requires a CPA designation or near completion, 2+ years of public practice audit experience, and office attendance four days a week.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan, prepare and execute financial statement audits, reviews and compilations
  • Prepare corporate and personal tax returns
  • Plan fieldwork including budget and resource needs
  • Provide solutions to clients on business and financial conditions
  • Deliver exceptional client service

Requirements summary:

  • CPA designation or designation near completion
  • 2+ years of public practice audit experience
  • Strong technical expertise in audit, accounting and tax
  • Experience leading teams on diverse engagements
  • Proficient with MS Office and accounting software such as CaseWare, TaxPrep, Sage and QuickBooks
  • Ability to travel within Nova Scotia

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Employer posting date
2026-10-29
First seen by our source
2026-10-10
Source record updated
2026-11-05

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentFinance & accounting
Experience2+ years
Manages peopleYes
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Travelground: moderate
Work settingOffice, Client sites
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Licences & certificationsCPA
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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People associated on LinkedIn
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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.

A career in Assurance Services with Grant Thornton will provide you an opportunity to:
• Work with a team of professionals who assist individuals and businesses with a wide range of accounting and financial services
• Be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to further your professional development and enlarge your chosen career path
• Be part of a fast growing environment with well respected professionals who are locally renowned in their respective field
• Develop solutions with clients and co-workers through collaborative effort and discussion
• Be engaged with clients on a variety of local and national projects

As a Senior Accountant, Assurance your responsibilities will include:
• Planning, preparing and execution of financial statement audits, reviews, and compilations
• Providing solutions to our clients on current business and financial conditions
• Planning fieldwork assignments including budget and resource needs
• Working closely with clients and providing exceptional client service
• Building our reputation as the preferred business advisors in key sectors of our growing practice
• Preparation of corporate and personal tax returns

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 a Senior Accountant, Assurance? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
• CPA designation or designation near completion
• 2+ Years of public practice audit experience
• Strong technical expertise in audit, accounting and tax
• Ability to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Strong commitment to excellence and attention to detail
• Proven problem solver with solid analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience in leading teams of professionals on diverse engagements
• Proficient with MS Office suite and Accounting software applications (CaseWare, TaxPrep, Sage, QuickBooks), with ability to quickly grasp new technology tools
• Ability to travel within Nova Scotia is a requirement

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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