Accounting Generalist - Temporary

Accounting Generalist - Temporary (4-6 months)

Jesuit High School OR Jesuit High School - Portland, Oregon

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Job : 5504168

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Re-Posted: Jan 21, 2026 8:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: To Be Determined

Are you an accounting professional looking for your next role? Are you interested in a longer-term, temporary position where you can contribute to a team in need of your experience?

Jesuit High School's finance team is looking for an Accounting professional who knows debits and credits, has experience with payroll (Oregon), and generally likes to get the work done efficiently and effectively. If you have experience with ADP, Sage Intacct, and want to work with a great team, we want to hear from you.

A bit about us:

Jesuit High School (JHS) is a Catholic, college preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition. Located on the border between Portland and Beaverton, Oregon, JHS is recognized locally and nationally for excellence and innovation in all of its programs. Jesuit High’s motto, Age Quod Agis (“Do well whatever you do”), follows in the five-century tradition of St. Ignatius, who demanded that Jesuit schools make use of the best pedagogical practices of the day to allow students to flourish.

We are seeking people who have the ability and desire to help our school community work toward our goal of preparing "men and women for others."

General Position Information:

The Accounting Generalist is a temporary Finance team role which will have a broad range of responsibilities such as payroll data entry in ADP, transaction and documentation creation for entry into Sage Intacct, facilitating and maintaining electronic files for the Finance team, and other accounting & finance related activities.

• Researching and preparing transaction entries and documentation for revenue and expenses
• Maintaining ADP employee profiles and employee changes
• Preparing payroll spreadsheet (non-regular pay) for upload into ADP
• Preparing general journal entry for payroll for upload into Sage Intacct
• Scanning and maintaining finance/business operations team files
• Ad-hoc projects
• Anything else as assigned by the CFO

• 5+ years’ experience in accounting, ideally with some time with a not-for-profit organization (but not required)
• Knowledge of payroll accounting, ideally with ADP or other similar payroll processing platform
• Strong knowledge of accounting best practices, documentation, and GAAP
• Service attitude, ability to interface well with the team
• Ability to “get the work done” in a high-performing, efficient team
• Team player, willingness to do work at all levels, from scanning to journal entries
• Experience with Sage Intacct a plus (or other large accounting platform)

Compensation: Compensation for this role depends on accounting knowledge level, experience with systems, etc. This role is an exempt, full-time, temporary position, expected to be approximately 4-6 months.

If you are interested in this role or any other positions with Jesuit High School, please submit a cover letter and resume to hiring.

Notice of Non-Discrimination:
Jesuit High School provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender (sex), national origin, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. Jesuit High School provides equal employment opportunities without regard to religion when Catholic faith is not a job requirement.

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $32 to $38 Per Hour

Job Categories: Other Professional >
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• Gina Chiotti , CFO
• Jesuit High School
• Email: hiring