Accountant - King County

Full-time position starting at $28.16 - $31.11/hr (D.O.E) with COMPETITIVE BENEFITS INCLUDE

• Generous PTO, paid sick time, 15 days of paid vacations, 13 days of paid holidays, plus a personal holiday
• CCS/CHS 403(b) Employee Saving Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Employee assistance program

Who We Are

At CCS/CHS we strive to make a difference in the lives of those individuals, children, families, and communities struggling with poverty and the effects of intolerance and racism. We actively join with others to work for justice. Join us and make a difference in your community!

Job Summary

The Staff Accountant must perform critical and accurate analysis in the vast majority of their tasks in our complicated nonprofit environment. These include reconciliation of accounts on the accounting books and review and analysis of financial information sent to the accounting department by programs, vendors, and contractors. Very good communication skills with both accounting and non-accounting personnel are essential. The position must perform their job while working under strict time deadlines.

• Prepare the audit schedule for all prepaid accounts and agency leases.
• Analyze and prepare the monthly general journal entry from the ADP reporting system for all the programs salaries, benefits, and taxes. This is a critical process of monthly financial statement preparation. Upon completion download the data to the Access data base for distribution to the programs pursuant to agency policy. Then export the allocated data to the Sage 100 (the accounting software).
• For all programs that have service fee revenue this position will review and verify the accuracy of those revenues each month and make inquiries to programs and/or adjustments as necessary.
• Calculate the agency liability for L&I expense by analyzing the ADP reports in the Access Data Base. Reconcile all balances to the General Ledger. Make sure payments of these liabilities are timely to avoid late penalties.
• Regularly post the payroll reports details for salaries, benefits and taxes to the shared accounting folder for use by the program managers in budgeting and invoicing.
• Record on a monthly basis the correct amount expense after analyzing each of the 30 prepaid accounts, to be recognized as period adjustments. Those expenses that need to be allocated to multiple programs will then be allocated using the data based with by using the correct unit basis for the allocation.
• At yearend analyze and adjust to close accounts for certain prepayments and adjust the corresponding program expenses.
• Assist the Finance Director to update the comp calculator on program budgets.
• Assist their supervisor, the Contracts and Benefits Supervising Accountant, with any special report generation for contracts (quarter contract reporting or grant proposals), contract invoicing, and any manager’s requests for custom financial information.
• Determine from check requests when new prepaid accounts need to be established.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from an accredited university.
• One year of increasing professional responsibility in accounting / financial management.
• Very strong computer skills, especially in Excel and accounting software packages.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Subsitute Qualifications

(Either of these options will be considered as a substitute qualification for the Bachelor's Degree in Accounting)

• AA Degree with 4 years’ experience in a nonprofit, government funded, social services environment performing professional level duties equivalent to a staff accountant.
• Over 10 years of accounting experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Sage 100 accounting software.
• Experience in a nonprofit, government funded, or social services environment.