Staff Accountant POST NUMBER: 472044

Summary:
The Staff Accountant performs account reconciliations and performs financial analysis and journal entry creation and posting. This position supports all external audits, financial reporting, and ledger maintenance.
Experience & Education:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related area with 2-3 years of relevant accounting / finance experience. Advanced credentials a plus. Must have excellent Excel skills and working knowledge of US GAAP. Experience with Fixed Assets a plus.
Essential duties & Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

• Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying consolidating and entering transactions
• Maintains accurate Fixed Asset records. Prepares annual Personal Property and Business License Returns
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies
• Maintains the general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, and reconciling entries
• Assists in the preparation of accurate, timely financial statements and adheres to established schedules with input from the accounting departments
• Conducts monthly and quarterly account reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance
• Reconciles balance sheet accounts
• Reconciles all bank statements and analyzes variances between banks statements and the general ledger
• Conducts regular ledger maintenance
• Assists with all financial and tax audits
• Assist with annual external accounting audit including preparation of supporting schedules
• Documents and monitors internal controls
• Reviews and posts receivables write-off entries
• Assists in preparing annual budget templates for input by directors and uploading completed and approved budgets into accounting system Assists with updating pivot tables within business unit census reports for use in monthly reviews.
• May assists with performance of quarterly bonus calculations and reconciliation for program managers and staff supervisors.
• Ensures payables to parents are created, adjusted and entered in the accounting system for prompt payment
• Monitors billing and reimbursements from agencies to ensure parents are reimbursed
• Perform ad-hoc analysis for new business ventures and miscellaneous projects.
• Reviews corporate credit card usage for correct coding to appropriate accounts
• Review accounts payable batch
• Processes positive pays as needed for all accounts, both manual and upload files

QUALIFICATIONS
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.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to listen, read, and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Ability to communicate information and ideas so that others will understand. Ability to prepare and effectively present information to management and other external groups. Ability to present a positive attitude and role model customer service excellence with every interaction.

REASONING ABILITY
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to understand implications of new information for both current and future problem solving and decision making. Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties require working in office environment with moderate noise level, including computers, printers, ringing phones, copy equipment. Must have the ability to work with ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse populations.

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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.