Summary: The Staff Accountant is responsible for maintaining the company’s financial and payroll records to ensure completeness, accuracy, and conformity with established procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: Other duties may be assigned.
Financial Accounting: 30% of time
· Prepares and posts journal entries in accordance with established procedures to ensure accurate financial records.
· Reconciles subsidiary ledgers to the general ledger. Reviews accounts for erroneous entries and reasonableness.
· Completes month-end closing procedures. Prepares financial statements and reports.
- Prepares audit work papers and assists with audits.
- Prepares invoices for shareholders, employees, and tenants.
- Monitors sales and use tax rules to ensure compliance.
Accounts Payable: 45% of time
- Assigns general ledger account numbers to invoices and reviews invoices for accurate sales and use tax application. Approves accounts payable invoices in accordance with specific parameters.
- Pays property tax.
- Prepares shareholder tax distributions.
Payroll Administration: 25% of time
- Processes bi-weekly payroll. Pays employee reimbursements. Updates payroll records.
- Updates employees’ retirement plan information and issues checks.
- Prepares and files payroll tax reports. Completes miscellaneous payroll-related surveys.
- Prepares for and participates in audits of payroll-related information.
- Monitors payroll tax changes to ensure compliance.
Other Responsibilities:
- Follows all Employee and Safety Handbook procedures.
- Attends training seminars, as necessary.
- Works outside normal business hours to manage workload.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Specifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
Associate’s degree with accounting coursework; or combination of education and experience in a related field.
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or government regulations. Ability to write business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from employees, auditors, vendors, and the public.
Math Ability:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret diagrams and graphs. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations when only limited standardization exists. Ability to apply concepts of accounting and bookkeeping.
Computer Skills:
Be proficient in word processing, spreadsheet, database, web browser and e-mail, and accounting software. Ability to learn and understand software required to make tax filings, regulatory filings and data requests.
Other Skills:
Excellent typing, keyboard, and 10-key calculator skills.
Equipment Used:
Personal computer, printers, scanning and copying equipment, inserting and postage machine, 10-key calculator, and other general office equipment.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Work Location: In person
