Employer Relations Officer

at  CPA Ontario

An Opportunity to Shape Student Success and
Empower Canada’s Future CPAs
Discover an exciting opportunity at CPA Ontario as an Employer Relations Officer. You’ll play a pivotal role in evaluating student experience reports, forging strategic partnerships for innovative training programs, and overseeing a diverse portfolio of employers dedicated to shaping the next generation of CPAs. You will also lead transformative projects on a provincial and national scale, driving the future of Canada’s accounting profession.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Assessing CPA students’ practical experience reports against established criteria, ensuring compliance and offering constructive feedback. Facilitating impactful advisement sessions as required to guide students toward their professional goals.
Building and maintaining relationships with employers ensuring a mutually beneficial training experience for students and organizations. Proactively resolving any training issues to optimize learning and development outcomes.
Collaborating with employer organizations to establish and set up pre-approved CPA student training programs.
Monitoring and enhancing pre-approved CPA student training programs to maintain rigorous standards and ensure continual compliance. Taking proactive steps to guide employers towards optimizing program effectiveness and fostering student success.
Championing and executing projects at provincial and national levels to drive innovation and impact.
Who You Are:
An experienced CPA leader, post-secondary graduate and CPA member with over 3 years of impactful experience in both public accounting and corporate environments that is well-versed in practical experience standards and adept at utilizing PERT to ensure accurate documentation.
A dynamic communicator and relationship builder with exceptional verbal and written skills, capable of fostering relationships and delivering compelling presentations that is known for providing excellent customer service and negotiating win-win solutions.
Digitally fluent in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams, leveraging these tools to streamline operations and enhance project outcomes that is enabled by your critical thinking, sharp judgement abilities and an exceptional eye for details.
Extremely organized and efficient, demonstrating a proven ability to plan, multitask, and execute projects with demanding timelines that is equally comfortable working independently or collaboratively within a team setting.
What We Offer:
A fast-paced environment. Collaboration, innovation and passionate professionals are at our core. We relentlessly pursue what’s next to unlock the full potential of you and us together.
Flexible work environments. As part of our Hybrid work culture, we provide flexible, remote work options to support you in your career, in addition to in-office teamwork and collaboration.
Diversity and inclusion. We recognize the value in our differences and prioritize inclusivity to bring together the best talent to protect the public, advance the profession and enable CPAs to lead business and society forward.
Ongoing learning and career growth. We want your career to skyrocket. We support unlimited career advancement and professional development opportunities with learning investments to promote your future growth. Thrive with us.
Focus on your well-being. With industry leading benefits and wellness programs, including a healthy lifestyle allowance, mental health resources and more, we’re committed to your well-being.
Who We Are:
We protect the public. We advance the profession. We enable CPAs to lead business and society forward. We ensure that our over 100,000 members and over 20,000 students meet the highest standards of integrity and expertise. We help them stay ahead of global market trends and abreast of regulatory change. CPAs represent a globally recognized, premium designation. Our Chartered Professional Accountants are valued by organizations in all industries for their financial expertise, strategic thinking, management skills and leadership. We believe that success happens when both business and society benefit. For information on the profession visit: cpaontario.ca
We Appreciate Your Interest In CPA Ontario And This Position:
At CPA Ontario, we are committed to building high-performance teams. Our selection process is thorough, and all candidate applications are reviewed. Should your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this role, a member of our recruitment team will contact you. We encourage you to set up CPA Ontario job alerts for positions that align to your experience and career goals.
CPA Ontario is an inclusive employer. Accommodation is available under the Ontario Human Rights Code. If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please email accessibility@cpaontario.ca with “Accommodation Required” in the subject line to provide your contact information. A member of the Recruitment team will contact you within 48 hours.

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