JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Staff Accountant
The Junior Accountant handles daily, weekly, monthly and annual data processing, reporting and filing as assigned.
Job Requirements
Education/Experience
- B.S. degree in accounting or A.D. in accounting with comparable work experience.
- 3 years bookkeeping and/or accounting experience.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of MS Great Plains Dynamics, Advanced Microsoft Excel and MS Word. Knowledge of MS Access.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Adding machine 10-Key by touch.
Job Description
• Payroll coding and tying to registers. Payroll is weekly and requires coding of wages, taxes and reimbursements by department for journal entry with subsequent reconciliation to payroll registers. • Reconciling monthly sales. Sales from various sources are exported from an online service and uploaded to Great Plains. Other sales require manual journal entries. Sales for the month are reconciled to online sales data and general ledger totals. • Reconciling monthly merchant service retainage/releases. Each month’s merchant service account’s statement is tied to general ledger detail for fees and retainage. • Downloading credit card data and coding. There are many transactions recorded on company credit cards requiring downloading and preparation for entering into MS Great Plains. Knowledge of basic accounting and expense recognition is necessary for timely and accurate processing. • Downloading bank data and coding. There are many transactions recorded through the many company checking and savings accounts requiring downloading and preparation for entering into MS Great Plains. Knowledge of basic accounting and expense recognition is necessary for timely and accurate processing. • Code expense reports for journalizing. The company utilizes expense reports for many employees. These reimbursements are made through payroll with detailed explanations provided in attached expense reports. The expense reports need to be analyzed for completeness of supporting documentation and in accuracy of amounts paid. Knowledge of basic accounting and expense recognition is necessary for timely and accurate processing. • Maintain filing system of fixed assets to include invoices and images. The MS Great Plains software allows images to be associated with individual fixed assets entered for depreciation and tracking purposes. This process needs to be expanded and brought current. • Bank reconciliations. After all bank and credit card activity has been posted, individual bank reconciliations need to be completed to insure completeness of data processed in downloads including any required adjustments. • Prepare daily cash position report (CPR). The CPR is a daily analysis of sources and uses of funds for the month and year to date. The CPR requires downloading the previous day’s activity by account along with sales and bank balances. • Post Journal Entries as assigned. There are often journal entries required to be entered and posted due to adjustments for various purposes such as error corrections and reclassifications, to name a couple. JEs need to be approved with adequate documentation. • Monthly billing of services to affiliated entities. There are several entities within the company’s operations. These entities require monthly analysis of balances and billings for services provided. These billings require documentation as support for payments including payroll, overhead and production costs to name a few. • Filing. Filing includes retrieving vendor, bank & credit card statements required for EOM reconciliations as well as insuring hard/digital copies are maintained appropriately. • Meet deadlines assigned. • Other duties as assigned.
