Staff Accountant Jobs

Job Title/Position: Staff Accountant/Payroll Reports To: CFO Staff Accountant : A Staff Accountant reports to the CFO. Maintains and controls the General Ledger accounts and business transactions of the organization, applying analytical work and thorough review of financial records in compliance with GAAP. Additionally this role will oversee the payroll process to ensure all data is correct and employees are paid correctly. Essential Job Functions, duties and responsibilities A Staff Accountant is primarily responsible in the maintenance of the general ledger to assist Management with the company's financial procedures, records, and statements including compliance with laws and regulations. Here are some of the usual duties of a Staff Accountant:

• Administer of the employee health benefits plans ensuring withholding are in accordance with communications
• Assist in the maintenance of the general ledger for multiple entities
• Assist with the annual audit and requests from audit staff
• Support the monthly close process including bank reconciliations, and preparing and posting adjustment entries
• Liaison with staff and management on payroll related queries
• Maintain payroll records in accordance with agreed upon procedures
• Manage the processing of cash receipts, recording of revenue and receivables and work closely with the Development team to ensure that revenues and receivables are reconciled at any given time.
• Review expense coding to ensure grant compliance.
• Perform Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as requested
• Lead the end to end payroll processing for all business lines to complete the payroll in an accurate and timely manner
• Enforcement of payroll related policies, procedures and regulations, as well as providing insight on quality improvement when needed
• Processing monthly expense payments and recording on a monthly basis to the financial ledger
• Provide support to operations staff for ongoing accounting issues
• Leading on implementing relevant upgrade and maintenance works to the Payroll/HR system
• Perform the processing and recording of the AP transactions and ensure that all invoices and staff reimbursements are paid accurately and in accordance with Finance policies and procedures.
• Perform the processing of functional and benefits expense allocation, monthly accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses, fixed assets depreciation and recording of adjusting and reclassification journal entries, as necessary.
• Perform general accounts analysis and reconciliations, including bank statements, fixed assets, employer's benefit costs, accruals and prepaid expenses.
• Assist in the preparation of financial reports such as financial statements, budget performance, and interim grant financial reporting. The above statements are intended to be a representative summary of the major duties and the responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description. Position Qualifications: Education: Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Master's degree and/or CPA preferred. Experience: 1-2 years of accounting experience, not-for-profit experience preferred Public accounting experience preferred Microsoft office experience, specifically Excel Experience maintaining multiple ledgers Healthcare experience a plus Team player - exceptional attention to detail - proactive - ability to be successful in fast paced and ever-changing environment This position requires the ability to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, the following essential function: Ability to sit, stand, lift, bend and stoop for extended periods of time. Ability to access, input and retrieve information from the computer Ability to access and operate phones and office equipment Ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients and management Job Posted by ApplicantPro
• Support semi-monthly payroll and monthly vendor payments
• Assist with the day-to-day, monthly and year-end operations of the Accounting/Finance Department including grant management and budget review and analysis.
• Prepare and analyze the month budget/forecast to actual variance reports per program and department.