Staff Accountant

What it Takes to Succeed

Here are the skills and traits you’ll need to be successful in our organization.

• A team player -- You define personal success by the success of the association and your teammates in addition to the excellence of your own work.
• Courageous -- You are always willing to try something new, whether that is a new responsibility or a new way of approaching an existing one.
• Self-motivated but also collaborative -- You take full ownership of your work statement but also enjoy working with a team.
• Highly adaptive and resilient -- When necessary, you are happy to iterate, react to changes in requirements, and learn for next time.
• Organized and detail-oriented -- You have a knack for record-keeping and multi-tasking and have strong proofreading and copyediting skills.
• An excellent communicator -- You write and speak effectively at varying levels of technical detail depending on what is most effective with any given audience.
• Skilled & experienced but also humble -- You are confident in what you bring to the team while recognizing that your opinion isn’t the only one that matters.

Assists the Accounting Manager with the day-to-day, monthly and annual operations of the Finance Department, including accounts reconciliation, analysis, general ledger maintenance, fixed asset management, accounting documentation, and preparation of our PAC’s monthly financial statements and Public Disclosure Committee compliance filings. Serves as backup and support for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable positions. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, works under general supervision, and exhibits creativity when appropriate.

• Month-end processing, including journal entries and reconciliation of general ledger account assignments.
• Monthly expense reconciliation, comparison to budget and follow-up coordination.
• Bank accounts reconciliation.
• Fixed Asset tracking and management & CAPEX updates.
• Prepare and file Personal Property tax and city and state B&O taxes.
• Assist in general ledger maintenance – Aptify and SAGE
• Review/post scheduled transactions from Aptify to SAGE software.
• Support annual budgeting and audit processes as needed.
• Maintain procedural instructions for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Ad-hoc reporting and maintenance of the monthly financials template.
• Field and answer inquiries from members and employees, researching as needed.
• Generate and distribute annual unit dues letters and/or invoices.
• Accounts Payable support:
  Credit card transaction receipt collection, coding, and annotation.

• Preparation of monthly financial statements.
• Track all relevant income and expenses to ensure PDC compliance.
• Prepare and file PDC reports according to schedule.

• Initiate and reconcile GRIP Positive Pay and maintain check follow-up spreadsheet.
• Prepare outstanding GRIP check letters and follow up on outstanding items.
• Enrollment fee invoicing and data entry and coding for Return to Work (RTW) requirements.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting (preferred), or an associate’s degree in accounting plus four years of accounting or bookkeeping experience can be used to meet this requirement.
• Experience: Minimum four years of experience in Accounting, Bookkeeping or related field.
• Technical Skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Working knowledge of GAAP
• SAGE 100 experience

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Highly organized.
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and quality in all work.
• Highly collaborative team player who is willing to contribute to the success of others but is also effective working independently.
• Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills. Able to communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Creative problem-solver with the ability to think outside the box.
• Excellent…