Supervisor, Accounting

Job Type: Permanent

Department:

Salary: $99,994.00 - $124,994.00

Close Date (closes at 12:00 am on date noted below): October 17, 2026

Hours per Week: 35

Openings: 1

Position Summary

About Milton

Join one of Ontario's fastest growing and most dynamic municipalities. The Town of Milton is proud to deliver high-quality, sustainable municipal services that support a vibrant, inclusive, and forward-looking community where residents thrive, businesses succeed, and nature is respected and protected.

Our vision is to foster a safe, diverse, and welcoming environment-one that honours its natural landscapes and rich heritage, supports thriving and inclusive neighbourhoods, nurtures a strong and balanced economy, and offers exceptional opportunities to live, learn, work, and play.

What We Offer?

• Annual Salary Range: $99,994 - $124,994
• Benefits: Regular full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefit package, with all premiums paid by the Town, an Employee Assistance Program, top-up maternity/parental leave benefits and life insurance.
• Eligibility to participate in the OMERS pension plan
• Paid time off, including vacation, incidental and volunteer days
• Employee perks/discounts: Discount on Active Living Pass and Perkopolis
• Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid work options and participation in the Town's compressed work-week program (for eligible positions)
• For further details of what we offer, please visit Why Milton

Position Summary

Reporting to the Manager, Accounting & Payroll this position is responsible for overseeing accounting staff and processes (accounts receivable, accounts payable, etc.); approving various accounting requests and reconciliations; maintaining the integrity of accounting information and preparing various year-end working papers and analysis in support of the annual audited Financial Statements and Financial Information Return (FIR).

Major Job Responsibilities

• Oversees, approves and provides guidance in the following functions: accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, tangible capital assets, banking and general accounting:
• Reviews and approves accounting transactions (i.e. supplier invoice requests, customer billings, journal entries)
• Reviews and approves Customer billings, refunds of write-offs
• Responsible for approval of outgoing funds, including Accounts Payable cheques, Electronic Funds Transfers, Wire Transfers and bank drafts
• Reviews and provides feedback regarding physical inventory count results, provide suggestions on analytical methodology and resolving issues
• Reviews and approves monthly HST reporting, liaise with CRA to resolve issues and answer inquiries
• Oversees reconciliations including those of the Town bank accounts

Provides direction and guidance to Town staff relating to:

• Donations and income tax receipting for cash and in-kind donations to ensure compliance with Income Tax Act and CRA guidelines
• Sales Tax (HST) HST treatment of various transactions to ensure compliance with HST legislation, calculate a self-assessment of HST relating to TCA transactions (i.e. acquisitions, disposals and land swaps) and out of province and country purchases
• Public Sector Accounting Standards, enacting procedural changes in response to revisions in PSAB

Month-End and Year-End including audit and financial reporting:

• Manages month-end process, coordinating closing of various accounting subledgers;
• Supports Financial Reporting including annual compilation of the annual Financial Report and FIR;
• Provides direction, reviews and approves monthly and annual reconciliations and analysis prepared by others;
• Prepares audit working papers in compliance with Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) standards;
• Manages audit requests, liaising between the Town's auditor and Town staff, providing support to others as needed;
• Prepares annual Library charity return in compliance with federal guidelines.

Financial analysis and research

• Oversees financial compliance with the Reciprocal Agreement
• Prepares financial analysis and reporting in compliance with the Reciprocal Agreement for shared use of spaces between the Town and local Schoolboards
• Reviews work completed by Community Services staff and coordinates the resulting accounting entries.
• Using input from others, calculates Town's subsidy, allocation of costs between the two schoolboards for any intermural use of space
• Works with Community Services management team to resolve any discrepancies between Town and the boards, to reach a settlement

Serves as Finance liaison on the Community Fund Staff Committee:

• Prepares financial analysis for Milton Community Fund application submissions
• Provides an opinion on the financial viability of each organization applying for funding and makes funding recommendations for the consideration of the Community Services Advisory Committee (CSAC).
• Supports departments with financial research, data collection, variance and account analysis, and re