We’re Hiring: Full Time Accounting and Payroll Specialist!
Location: Brantford, ON
Hours: Full Time
Start Date: As soon as possible (Vacant Position)
Apply by: August 26th, 2026 | Reference: FT Accounting & Payroll Specialist
Email Applications to: [email protected]
About SOAR Community Services
At SOAR, we believe in lifting communities through compassionate, inclusive, and innovative care. Serving the communities of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk since 1968, we are accredited in Children and Youth Mental Health, Community Mental Health and Addictions Services and Youth Justice Services through the Canadian Centre for Accreditation. Our departments include Employment, Justice, Mental Health and Addictions, and Housing. Join a team that’s committed to making a difference – every day.
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for an Accounting and Payroll Specialist. This role is a vital part of our Administration Team. If you have a passion for supporting dedicated, client-centred, non-profit leadership and staff, you could be a perfect fit.
What You’ll Do
· Prepare bank reconciliations
· Prepare and enter journal entries
· Reconcile key accounts
· Review, maintain and process accounts payable and receivable
· Administer bi-weekly payroll, including creation of Records of Employment
· Prepare and pay pension remittances and federal payroll deductions
· Prepare staff training allocations
· Follow licensing, supplier and government policies and procedures to ensure compliance
· Order, record and reconcile gift cards
· Follow up on past due receivables and discrepancies with vendors and/or funders
· Prepare and submit wage claims for Employment programs
What You’ll Bring
· Have a post-secondary diploma in an Accounting or Business field
· Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a computerized environment with a proficiency in Accounting & payroll software (Oracle NetSuite and ADP preferred)
· Have a solid understanding of basic accounting principles
· Be proficient in MS Office and be familiar with databases
· Have access to reliable transportation
Why Join SOAR?
- Salary: Starting at $24.74 per hour.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and travel insurance, with options fully paid for Full Time staff.
- Time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, 60 hours of personal leave, and 15 hours of wellness time (pro-rated first year).
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.
- RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.
- A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.
Ready to Make an Impact?
We’re looking for someone passionate about empowering client voices, connection in community care and inclusion in action! If that’s you, we want to hear from you.
Our Commitment to Job Seekers
SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.
SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision.
Personal information submitted will only be used for the purposes of the competition in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Pay: $24.74-$27.13 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience using ADP?
- Do you have experience using Oracle NetSuite?
Education:
Work Location: In person
